‘If you break even that’s a bonus’: what it costs to perform at the Edinburgh fringe

‘I’m not going unless I have a really good story to tell’ … l to r, Tamsyn Kelly, Forests and Santi & Naz Composite: PR

‘It’s an investment’

“The big, difficult cost this year is accommodation,” says RoguePlay’s artistic director Kim Wildborne. The physical theatre company is heading to Edinburgh with Forests, a show about the destruction of the rainforest, featuring three acrobatic performers and a prop willow tree.