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Dateline:
14th July, 2002
Fringe 2002 Facts
Facts, both startling and silly, about the forthcoming
2002 Edinburgh Fringe:
Startling!
- There will be 20.342 performances of 1491 shows by 619 companies
in 183 venues
- There will be a total of 11,713 performers taking part in the 2002
Fringe
- There will be 508 theatre shows (36% of the total)
- 23% of shows are comedy, 20% music, 5% each musicals, dance and
physical theatre. Children's shows and exhibitions account for 4%
each, and other events 3%.
- 25% are world, 10% UK and 5% European premieres
- 10% of all Fringe shows are free, while 44% (660) cost £5
or less
- 67% of all audiences at all Edinburgh's festivals throughout the
year are for the Fringe
- The online ticketing facility at
www.edfringe.com fulfills more than 20% of all Fringe ticket sales
- The largest venue is the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston (capacity
5000) and the smallest a lift (capacity 1)
Silly!
- The longest show title is 35 words long: The Complete Lost Works
of Samuel Beckett As Found In An Envelope (Partially Burned) In A
Dustbin In Paris Labelled 'Never To be Performed. Never. Ever. EVER!
Or I'll Sue! I'll Sue from The Grave!!!'
- To see every performance one after the other would take three years
and 355 days
- The programme is 216 pages long, the biggest ever
Fringe
Snippets 1
Fringe Snippets 2
Fringe Snippets 3
Fringe Snippets 4
Fringe Snippets 5
Fringe Snippets 6
The Fringe at the Traverse (23rd
June)
C Venues at the 2002 Fringe
Dance Base at the 2002 Fringe
Index
A-F
Index G-K
Index L-Q
Index R-Z
News
Archive A-L
News Archive M-Z
Production News Archive
Please note that all three Archive
indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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