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Dateline: 6th September, 2009
A Record-Breaking Fringe This year's Edinburgh Fringe, the 63rd, has broken all records for ticket sales, selling 1,859,235 tickets - a 21% increase on last year’s figure and 9% more than the previous record set in 2007. The Five Pound Fringe sold more than 17,000 tickets and The Stand more than 43,000. The overall figures do not include tickets for the Free Fringe nor for walk-ups at many of the small venues (as there is usually a delay in obtaining these figures), which camn make up almost 10% of overall sales. The festival featured 34,265 performances of 2,098 shows in 265 venues and an estimated 18,901 performers. "We can look back on a month of exceptional ticket sales and one of the best festivals in my twenty years in and around Edinburgh," Kath M Mainland, Chief Executive of the Fringe Society said. "Even in tough economic conditions festivals chime with people in a way few other events manage to. Over the last three and a half weeks I have seen some amazing work, sometimes perfectly trivial and enormously entertaining, sometimes incredibly challenging and often hugely moving. I have been blown away by the creative energy, artistic vision and drive of the people taking part, from performers and directors, to venue producers and promoters. There are many reasons why you would chose to bring a show to the Fringe, but this year it seems as though the process of making art is as important as ever."
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