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The World's Biggest Festival--Edinburgh |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: John Elsom |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,050 Words, 12,298 Characters |
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It is a sight to shock the elders of the Church of Scotland, a giant Feast of Fools staged under the very noses of those who normally frown on folly; and to make matters worse, the banquet gets bigger every year. In a land renowned for thrift and moderation, the Edinburgh International Festival has never learned where to stop.
It began in a modest way in 1947, as a sigh of relief after the war. Pablo Picasso contributed its first emblem, a delicate sketch of the Dove of Peace. At first it was primarily a music festival, although it had its theatrical triumphs. In 1948, the director, Tyrone Guthrie, who relished difficult challenges, was asked to stage a sixteenth-century Scottish morality play, Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, in the Assembly Hall of the Church of...
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...e of his prediction. But it was so confident and original a production, it presented the tale in so powerful a light, and it was so coherent in aims and achievement that it is hard to believe that other directors will not fall under Berkoff's spell. To that extent, Salome is likely to join the long list of Edinburgh Festival events that have in some way changed the course of European theater.
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