Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Improv Shows
1947-present (improv shows as festival strand ~1990s-present) ยท Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as Edinburgh Fringe
Not a dedicated improv festival, but the world's largest arts festival, the defining annual stage for improv careers to break in the UK.
Known for
- Annual August festival; world's largest performing arts festival.
- Major improv shows broken here: Austentatious (An Improvised Jane Austen Novel) first took the show to the 2012 Free Fringe; returned annually, selling out 2014-2018.
- Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has been an Edinburgh Fringe fixture since 2008.
- The Spontaneity Shop has been presenting shows at Edinburgh since 2000.
- Austentatious transferred to West End in 2017, has done BBC Radio 4, toured, and celebrated its 12th Fringe year.
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