Arts - An actor’s life for me... by Scott Kyle
An actor’s life for me with... Scott Kyle
A scene from ‘A War of Two Halves’
The show must, and does, go on
F
or the last 73 years summer in Scotland has meant festival time. This month should have seen the start of three weeks of organised chaos on the streets of Edinburgh as performers from around the world descend on the city for the annual Fringe Festival.
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What started as an impromptu event staged by eight theatre groups gatecrashing the newly formed Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, which was set up to celebrate European cultural life in the aftermath of the Second World War, has become a world show business phenomenon.
Now, each year more and more performers from up to 70 countries come to the city to put on a show, attracting bigger and bigger audiences in the process. Over the years millions have flocked to Scotland’s capital city to perform and/or view shows of such colourful variety, mix of
