The FRINGE is the name a festival taking place in the city of Edinburgh (Scotland) since 1947. This festival is considered as the largest arts event in the entire world. Most of the shows are comedies and theatre plays. But it also gathered exhibitions, operas, dance, musicals etc. In 25 days, 2600 shows are taking place, from 47 countries. It's an occasion for half of the shows to be created for the first time (world premiere). In 2011, the Fringe sold more than 1,8 millions tickets !
This festival was created "in the fringe" of the Edinburgh International Festival, presenting itself as "the most exciting, innovative and accessible Festival of the performing arts in the world". As its name indicated it, The Fringe Festival is an alternative to this institutional and official festival of Edinburgh : in 1947, some theatrical companies were not invited to this festival, so they take the opportunity to create their own event and to institute a rule : their is no selection to perform into the Fringe, every artists in the world can take part of it. Its slogan : "Come on in and join us in this celebration of arts and entertainment!"
This festival could be seen as an entertaining event, but an article in the Guardian proves that the committed creation has also a place of honor : an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression award was created, and rewarded in 2012 a theatre play, The Two Worlds of Charlie F, about injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
This Festival is a proof that all arts can be honored in only one event and can gather people and artist all over the world.
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D. LEFEVRE - Week 4 - 272 words
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