From its inception amidst the post-war austerity of 1947, to its current status as an international arts festival, the Edinburgh festival has touched the lives of huge numbers of people, both performers and audiences.
Formed with the desire to create something positive out of the ashes of war, Edinburgh became the first of its kind, and one of the most important events on the world cultural calendar.
Enjoy this years Edinburgh Festival
This year’s Edinburgh Festival takes place between13th August and 5th September. The broad festival programme includes performance of all kinds – with music, theatre, dance and visual art from across the globe. At festival time, the Edinburgh air hums with creativity, as artists from so many disciplines and places who might otherwise never meet are brought together.
For its performers and producers, Edinburgh offers the chance to display their skills in front of the kind of broadly based audience that they might never be able to otherwise, and to gain international acclaim. For its audiences, the draw is the opportunity to see a diverse and intriguing programme which covers both the traditional and the cutting-edge. Among the performances at this year’s festival are a production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, an opera about one family’s experience of the Great Depression in the Deep South of 1935; Grupo Corpo – a flamboyant Brazilian dance group; and Caledonia, the story of a Scottish colonial adventurer, put on by the National Theatre of Scotland. The programme is as varied as the people who attend.
Of course, with so many people descending on one city at the same time, attending the festival isn’t always plain sailing. Accommodation gets booked up quickly, as does transport. You might not be able to get into all the shows you want. But be flexible, and be prepared, and you can’t fail to enjoy such a varied and vibrant celebration.
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