Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is often called the Edinburgh Fringe and sometimes just the Fringe. It is one of the arts festivals collectively termed the Edinburgh Festival. It takes place annually in the city of Edinburgh during August. It was originally set up to complement the Edinburgh International Festival but now dwarfs it. The Edinburgh Fringe is the world?s largest arts festival.

Venues

The Fringe comprised 247 individual venues in 2005. The largest and most most popular of these comprise:

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• The Gilded Balloon
• Pleasance
• Assembly Rooms
• C venues
• Smirnoff Underbelly

The festival is renowned for staging shows in unusual venues; 2003's festival featured shows staged in a public toilet, a red Ford Escort, a lift and a stepladder http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2966014.stm.

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