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This chapter turns to the performance ecology of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Here, we consider the recent collaborative phenomenon of crowdfunding as a way to support small-scale theatre. We conduct a sample analysis of the 2017 Fringe Festival, exploring how far the dynamics of crowdfunding and collaboration contribute to small-scale companies, fringe venues and the Edinburgh Festival as a whole. Although we identify limitations in the effectiveness of this funding mechanism as a resource, we establish that the Festival itself is a phenomenon entirely driven by the collaborative economy.
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Savage, K., Symonds, D. (2018). Crowd. In: Economies of Collaboration in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95210-9_9
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