The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 brochure has arrived. As usual, it’s the size of a thumping great telephone directory – an astonishing achievement for an event whose origins were so modest in 1947 when eight companies ‘gatecrashed’ the new official festival by staging their own events. Today, it’s the largest….
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This article was by Susan Elkin for TheStage – See original article here
NT Connections claims to be the largest youth theatre festival in the world. It’s certainly hard to think of anything comparable. In 2016, it involved 10,000 young people. It’s also a fine example of the National Theatre living up to its name because the scheme really does operate nationwide….
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This article was by Susan Elkin for TheStage – See original article here