Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >

During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011, Radio 1 ended each day of the festival from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 August with the Fun & Filth Cabaret.

His 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, The Headmaster's Son is based on his time at The Kings of Wessex School, where his father Keith was the headmaster.

The International Festival has since been overtaken in both size and popularity by the Edinburgh Fringe.

Comedy is now one of the mainstays of the Fringe, with numerous notable comedians getting their ' break ' here, often through receipt of the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

In 2008 the largest comedy venues on the Edinburgh Fringe launched as a festival within a festival, labelled the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

After the completion of the New York run, the production then transferred to the Edinburgh Festival where it was a 2006 Edinburgh Festival Pick of the Fringe.

Also at Oxford, he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.

The expanded version under the current title was first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on August 24, 1966, by the Oxford Theatre Group.

*** Fringe festival – unjuried festivals, such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Adelaide Fringe Festival, permit artists to produce a wide variety of works.

David Benson's 1996 Edinburgh Fringe show, Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, saw Benson playing Williams ; after touring, the show ran in London's West End.

Benson reprised his performance at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe and continues to tour.

A stage adaptation was announced for the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was directed by Andrew Steggall.

* " Jeremy Bentham at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007 " A play-reading of the life and legacy of Jeremy Bentham.

Appropriately, the comedy drama had a sellout run at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London's West End at The Venue, in 2006, in a version starring Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett and Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller.

Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

There were versions in Slough and Leeds, as well as one in Scotland, played during the Edinburgh Fringe arts festival ( where the name was changed to " Morningside Crescent ").

* In 2010, an adaptation by Pip Utton was staged at The Pleasance as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Eton College has also staged numerous plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, under the production name ' Double Edge Drama '.

The longest established festival is the Edinburgh International Festival, which first ran in 1947.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The Edinburgh International Film Festival in the UK was established in 1947 and is the longest continually running film festival in the world.

* 1947 – George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George's elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.

In 1947, BBC Light Programme aired an episode of their Theatre Programme which featured an analysis of the play by Ralph Richardson and scenes recorded from John Burrell's Edinburgh Festival production starring Trevor Howard and Patricia Burke.

* 1947 – 1952: The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh

As Princess Elizabeth, HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ( who was created Baron Greenwich on their marriage in 1947 ) made their first joint visit to Greenwich in 1948 for the Duke to receive the Freedom of the Borough.

With the then newest and nearest bridge spanning the Forth ( the Kincardine Bridge, built in 1936 ) still around upstream, the upsurge in demand for a road crossing between Edinburgh and Fife prompted the UK Government to establish the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board ( FRBJB ) by Act of Parliament in 1947 to oversee the implementation of a new bridge to replace the ferry service.

The Edinburgh International Festival ( EIF ) was established in 1947 in a post-war effort to " provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit ".

* Edinburgh International Festival ( founded 1947 )* — The original and " official " festival consisting of classical and contemporary theatre, opera, music, dance, visual arts, talks and workshops.

* Edinburgh International Film Festival or EIFF ( 1947 ) was traditionally held in August but, from 2008 is being held in late June.

* Prince Philip ( born 1921 ), 1st Duke of Edinburgh ( 1947 – present ).

In 1947 he was unable to attend the wedding of his first cousin, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to the future Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as he was suffering from typhoid fever.

He was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Among other posts, Grimond was a barrister and publisher in the 1930s, an army major during World War II, Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland from 1947 to 1949, and held the Rectorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen and the Chancellorship of the University of Kent at Canterbury ( elected in 1970 ).

In his later career, he specialized more in recitals, and delivered a fine collection of English songs at the first Edinburgh Festival in 1947.

She served as bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousins, the then-Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh, on 20 November 1947.

In 1947, British European Airways started a service between Edinburgh and London using Vickers Vikings followed by the Viscount and Vanguard series.

She was already the first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and then also became his aunt, due to his 1947 marriage to Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II.

His nephew, John Thomas Wheatley, became a Labour MP for Edinburgh in 1947 and Lord Advocate.

In 1947, Prince William was a page boy for his cousin The Princess Elizabeth at her wedding to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1947 Wimbledon Girls Singles and Junior Doubles winner Norma Seacy moved to Dunblane from Edinburgh as a child in 1942.

Christison was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command from 1946 to 1947 ; he was then GOC-in-C of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle from 1947 to 1949 He was promoted to full general in August 1947.