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в€їor all those artists who were taking their first shot at the Fringe this year,В” Moody said, В“that work might never resurface because they might not have the strong foundations or the support to carry on.В” This year, such opportunities have essentially vanished. It became one of that yearВ’s most talked-about shows, which led to a run at LondonВ’s Soho Theatre, where it caught the attention of the BBCВ’s head of comedy. When she and Waller-Bridge took в€їleabagВ” to a dank vault under EdinburghВ’s George IV Bridge seven years ago, they raised money on Kickstarter, didnВ’t pay themselves and gave away tickets for the first week to fill the 60-seater room.

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They were preparing for a similar-scale festival to last yearВ’s, in which more than 3,800 shows were staged and more than 3 million tickets were sold.Д®dinburgh is В“the way that arts organizations, venues, TV production companies find new work the fact that it doesnВ’t exist this year will have a significant impact,В” said Moody, who knows how life-changing a successful Fringe can be. Audiences will watch on Zoom after donating at least 4 pounds ($5) per ticket, and profits will go toward a fund for artists aiming to stage a show at the Fringe next year.Д«efore planning was halted because of the pandemic, this yearВ’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival had confirmed more than 2,200 shows from 48 countries in about 230 venues, said Rebecca Monks, a spokeswoman for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Thanks to social distancing rules and space restrictions, the В“Shed-uleВ” is dominated by one-person shows from artists like Jack Rooke, Deborah Frances-White and Tim Crouch. В“This is an opportunity to acknowledge how magical the festival is, how important it is to me and to a lot of the artists who have had success there.В” В“The cancellation of the Fringe has left a massive hole,В” said Moody, who has attended the festival for 17 years. Setting up the sheds inside is a nod to the questing spirit of the Fringe, which takes over every corner of the city of Edinburgh each August, transforming pubs and gardens, gyms, parking lots and lecture theaters into performance spaces. Both venues have been closed since March, when the British government ordered theaters to shut to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. In fact, there are two sheds, each measuring 6 feet by 8 feet: one onstage at LondonВ’s Soho Theatre, the other at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Six weeks ago, she came up with Shedinburgh, an online festival of comedy and drama that streams live from a garden shed for three weeks starting Friday. When the festival was called off, her fellow theater-maker Gary McNair joked that he would have to stage a В“Shed FringeВ” from his garden instead В— a pun that В“set cogs whirringВ” in MoodyВ’s producer brain. To fill the gap, some artists have gone online to try to capture the anarchic, diverse and somewhat overwhelming experience of being at the Fringe.ДЄmong them is Francesca Moody, a London-based theater producer who took the original stage version of в€їleabagВ” to the Fringe in 2013 and had planned to stage three plays in Edinburgh this month. The festivalВ’s cancellation has been a big blow to long-term fans В— and to the 30,000 performers who travel to the Scottish city each August to show their work. в€ѕdinburgh is everything, really,В” he said. But in early April, the event В— the worldВ’s largest arts festival В— was canceled for the first time in its 73-year history, because of the coronavirus.ДЇor Chapple, a civil servant who estimates that he spends half his income on watching live comedy and keeps chickens named after British stand-up comedians, it was devastating. Having seen a record-breaking 304 shows in 27 days in 2014, he was planning another Fringe viewing marathon this year for his wifeВ’s 60th birthday. David Chapple began planning his trip to the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a year ago, since you canВ’t be too prepared when you hold the world record for the most Fringe performances attended in one season.

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