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Dateline: 6th August, 2005
Fringe and EIF Should Unite That's the claim of William Burdett-Coutts, director of the Assembly venue at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Edinburgh International Festival, he claims, has become too "backward looking" and the retirement of EIF director Brian McMaster in 2006 was a good time for the EIF to re-think its future. "I think the Edinburgh Festival is the greatest live event in the world, but I question whether it has any direction," Burdett-Coutts added, and went on to say that, while the Fringe is ever-growing, the EIF seems stuck in the past. However neither Paul Gudgin, the Fringe's director, nor Jackie Westbrook, the EIF marketing manager, agree. Gudgin said that the mixture of the various festival - the EIF, the Fringe, the jazz, book and film festivals, the Military Tattoo and the Mela - is one of the reasons the Edinburgh Festival has been so successful over so many years, whilst Westbrook insists out that the EIF is in "rude health". It is, she was, about quality, with artists being invited to perform, while the Fringe is about - among other things - allowing greater participation. "They are all complementary," she said, "and it's that very diversity that make the phenomenon which is the Edinburgh festival so special." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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