The Free Fringe

About

We put on about 6000 performances of about 400 shows free of all charges to performers and public at the Edinburgh Fringe, thus enabling access to this world-famous event for performers and public, without the otherwise high cost of participation. This develops our performers' competences in the performing arts and makes those arts accessible to the citizens of Edinburgh and to visitors to that city. We negotiate performance spaces free of charge to us: the spaces get the refreshment sale profits. We select and programme the shows from those who apply to us, usually at least twice as many as we have space for. We operate as a collective and nobody is remunerated for the work they do for the Free Fringe, although of course suppliers are paid.

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