Pleasance: Edinburgh Fringe 2023

A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.

A look at some of the events taking place at the Edinburgh Festival.

Activity on the streets of Edinburgh during its giant annual arts festival.

In between performing at Dublin's maximum security prison and staging the Conflict Revolution gig Andrew Maxwell performs his sell out, five star performance at the 2008 Edinburgh festival. If you like your comedy funny and your storytelling memorable, this is the live show for you. "I've seen the future of Irish Comedy and its name is Andrew Maxwell" Irish Times

Bill Hicks: At the Edinburgh Festival

On 3 August 2014 Scroobius Pip released his first Live DVD Words, a 2 disc special released on his own Speech Development Records. The DVD features his spoken word show Words live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013. Words was first premiered at Latitude Festival to a crowd of over 4000 festival goers. Scroobius Pip then made his debut appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a 19-show run of Words. The show sold out every night and garnered huge critical acclaim, with The Scotsman declaring it: ‘A bewitching mixture of too-cool-for-school nonchalance and laser-like intensity.

Live performance specially recorded for Whistle Test from the Reggae Concert at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973, featuring The Cimarons, Winston Groovy, Dennis Alcapone, The Marvels, Nicky Thomas and The Pioneers.

Arthur Smith's love letter to the playground of the imagination that is the Edinburgh Fringe on its 75th birthday. Recalling some of the triumphs, disasters, love affairs and arrests of his many Augusts in Auld Reekie. Hamlet, Colditz, Leonard Cohen, Dante, dementia, Arthur's Seat, Gary Lineker and the Leith Police all feature in this moving hour of revelations, songs, poems, gags and bad costumes. This is Arthur's last-ever Edinburgh show so you had better be there.