I’m now in the final stages of transcribing & editing a series of interviews I conducted earlier in the year with a clutch of decision-makers responsible for Edinburgh’s Summer Festivals.
This, the first fully live season since restrictions were entirely lifted, promises to be the most momentous year in the history of the Festival City since The Edinburgh International Festival was born in 1947. Subscribe now, so you don’t miss these revelatory chats with directors from The Edinburgh International Festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, the Pleasance, Gilded Balloon, Assembly, Laughing Horse, Just the Tonic, Zoo, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and more.
I think we’ve got to find a way of finding a pragmatic balance in my mind, I don’t know what the Cockburn Society’s view of the world is, but I have a feeling yeah — and this is a hunch – that they’d quite like Edinburgh to go back to being a sort of Georgian museum with wafting harpsicord music coming out of a window somewhere. That strikes me as being the most awful kind of privilege.
Anthony Alderson – Director · Pleasance Theatre Trust
Find out the philosophies which drive them, their hopes and fears for the future, their opinions on rising accommodation costs, and growing cries of over-tourism. It’s been a fascinating journey for me, and I can’t wait to begin sharing it all with you.
If you think you know it all, believe me, you don’t. If you have an interest in this city, and the Festivals which underwrite so much of the local economy, and generate love and hate in equal measure, then you won’t want to miss what’s coming.
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