Brian Cox is absolutely right to warn that the soaring accommodation costs in Scotland’s capital city are “cutting off the lifeblood” of young talent at the festival (Edinburgh fringe unaffordable for many young performers, says Brian Cox, 16 July). If it’s not the performers who have to give the property owners their huge profit margins, it’s the producers of the shows, and it’s inevitably going to staunch the flow of talent across the board.
It is a great honour to be invited to perform, and I was thrilled when the prestigious Assembly Rooms said they wanted to give a stage to my play Bloody Difficult Women for the run of the festival, but none of us had reckoned with a bill of £20,000-plus to accommodate our team, including our brilliant six-strong cast.
