Stewart Lee: the slow death of the Edinburgh Fringe
For decades, the Fringe has been a utopia for artists and performers " but now profit-obsessed promoters are tearing it to pieces. They must be stopped, says one Fringe veteranI remember my first experience of the Edinburgh Fringe through a nostalgic haze. The Fringe was the postwar utopian ideal, but with jokes, experimental theatre and a lot of fried food; anyone could perform in it if they could raise the program…