Young actors and writers will flock to Edinburgh in their thousands next month to chase the Fringe dream of launching their plays and careers on a global stage. The stars in their eyes are the five they hope to receive from reviewers that might catapult unknown talents to London or New York.
But fringe veterans are urging Edinburgh Festival Fringe organisers to overhaul the role of theatre at the event — and to come clean about how many tickets for theatre shows are actually sold, amid fears that the art form, once the heart and soul of the Fringe, is losing its pulse.
The Fringe brochure this year suggests a picture of health: 59,600 performances of 3,841 shows across 323 venues, an increase in shows
