‘We need an intervention’: five ways to fix the Edinburgh festival fringe

Martin Willis, founder of production company Objectively Funny

I always visualise the city creaking under the weight of the festival. Every year it gets a little bit bigger and more intense and you think: is there going to be a breaking point where the infrastructure of the city can’t handle this? With so many festivals all on over the summer, it feels like: can’t we stagger it? I would put the reins on it growing out of control, make it a few days shorter and spread other events out over the year.

It’s not just performers being priced out, it’s reviewers and industry people too. Speaking to a lot of the bars we work with, it wasn’t as busy. We do our shows in existing Edinburgh bars and night clubs and so on – the money goes back into the city, it doesn’t go to the university or any company from London.

Is 'secede' one of them? 😉

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