A man walks past posters advertising shows at the Edinburgh Fringe festival
WORKERS at Edinburgh’s world-famous festivals are “underpaid, poorly treated and work in precarious conditions,” a new report says.
The dossier, compiled by the Fair Fringe campaign, draws together examples of extreme working hours expectations, low pay and no pay, inhumane accommodation and deductions from wages.
Thousands of people descend on the Scottish capital every summer for the theatre, TV, film and books festivals, and their more famous stage and comedy “fringe.”
At the Edinburgh Fringe, MATTHEW HAWKINS reviews eight shows in a single day in one venue, all of which reward the spectator
JAMES WALSH tells you everything you could possibly want to know about what comedy is on offer at the fringe
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE