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Pleasance Edinburgh
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About Us
Pleasance Edinburgh opened as part of the 1985 Festival Fringe with two theatres facing onto a deserted courtyard-come-car-park at an unfashionably eastern end of Edinburgh's old town. Twenty-one seasons later the Pleasance has become one of the biggest and most highly respected venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with an international profile and a network of alumni that reads like a Who's Who of contemporary comedy, drama and entertainment.
At the 2005 Festival Fringe the Pleasance celebrated its coming of age offering 18 theatre spaces ranging in size from 50-740 across two locations - the Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) and the Pleasance Dome (Venue 23). In excess of 240,000 people came through our doors to watch one of the 160 shows happening every day, or simply to take a breather with a drink or a snack at one of our 10 onsite cafes and bars. Given the all-day buzz and legendary atmosphere, it's no wonder that to many the Pleasance is the Fringe!
Each year new and exciting companies and performers are placed side by side with more established acts in the true spirit of the Fringe. The Pleasance is proud to have found an early home for (amongst many many others!) Frantic Assembly, Theatre de L'Ange Fou, Red Shift, La Fura Dels Baus, Derevo, Ennio Marchetto, Trestle Theatre Company, The Cambridge Footlights, NYT, NYMT, NSTC, Kneehigh Theatre Company and Peepolykus in our Theatre programme; Graham Norton, Paul Merton, The League of Gentlemen, Steve Coogan, Paul Whitehouse, Jo Brand, Jenny Eclair, Frank Skinner, Bill Bailey, Harry Hill, David Strassman, Bob Down and The Mighty Boosh (to name but a few) in our Comedy programme; music has been provided by The Flying Pickets, Honkin Hepcats, Antonio Forcione, Four Poofs and a Piano, Tom Robinson and Kate Dimbleby. And extravaganzas such as The Donkey Show, The Bomb-itty of Errors and Hedwig and the Angry Inch have all taken part. Every year throws up new surprises.
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