The Edinburgh Fringe Festival gets underway this week celebrating the arts festival's 75th year. With three weeks of shows from all walks of life, the festival runs until August 29th.
The story of the Fringe dates back to 1947, when eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to the Edinburgh International Festival. Despite not being part of the official programme, these groups went ahead and staged their shows on the fringe of the festival, coining the now-iconic name and phrase.
As the festival grew, the Festival Fringe Society was created to formalise its existence, provide information, create and publish the programme and form a central box office. However, the society agreed they would never vet the festival's programme and, as one of its core principles, they are happy to include anyone with a story to tell and a venue willing to host them.
