http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/edinburgh-festivals/free-festival-fringe/08-12-2006/index.html Life in Edinburgh: Scotland's capital city. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/edinburgh-festivals/free-festival-fringe/08-12-2006/index.html#comment-8958 Komedy Kollective Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:58:26 +0000 http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/edinburgh-festivals/free-festival-fringe/08-12-2006/index.html#comment-8958 We think the fringe and the main festival ought to be encorporated into one festival, an all-new Edinburgh Drama Festival, thus giving a higher profile to the more fringey events, and a more cosmopolitan, and maybe comedic feel to the main event. One Edinburgh Festival would erase the distinction between high and low brow, and make for a higher quality yet more diverse and better promoted combined festival, which engages with everybody, rather than “preaching to the converted”, which is the problem with so much theatre, be it the fringe or the mainstream. We think the fringe and the main festival ought to be encorporated into one festival, an all-new Edinburgh Drama Festival, thus giving a higher profile to the more fringey events, and a more cosmopolitan, and maybe comedic feel to the main event. One Edinburgh Festival would erase the distinction between high and low brow, and make for a higher quality yet more diverse and better promoted combined festival, which engages with everybody, rather than “preaching to the converted”, which is the problem with so much theatre, be it the fringe or the mainstream.

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