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Backstage with street performers at Edinburgh fringe " photo essay

by Murdo Macleod, Matt Fidler

Photographer Murdo MacLeod meets fire jugglers, clowns and mimes as they prepare to entertain the crowds during the Edinburgh festival fringeThe Edinburgh festival fringe is the largest event of its kind in the world. It began in 1947 when eight theatre companies turned up, uninvited, alongside the acts performing in the first Edinburgh international festival. Since then the fringe has grown into the biggest of Edinb…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:48am on August 21, 2017