“I’ve always loved the festival and I thought it would be a great way of
making it easier for the public to choose which shows they want to see,”
said MacIntosh, who recently completed a business degree at Edinburgh’s
Napier University.
“Often shows receive mixed reviews and it can be difficult for people to
decide which performances they want to see based on someone else’s opinion.
This helps empower the public. At the same time it helps performers to
promote their shows.”
In recent years promoters have complained that festival-goers are
increasingly reluctant to pay the standard £10 ticket price for an hour’s
worth of entertainment from an unknown, and potentially excruciating,
performer.
Daunted by the number of shows listed, many stick to well-known venues
such as the Assembly Rooms, the Pleasance, the Gilded Balloon and the
Traverse Theatre.
Richard Demarco, the Edinburgh arts impresario and fringe veteran who runs
Rocket productions at the Roxy Art House, said he hoped the preview site
would boost sales for offbeat shows.
“I like the idea. It’s very typical of the age,” he said. “I think it
will encourage audiences to have more confidence when buying tickets. But I
would also encourage people to trust themselves and choose shows using their
intuition.”
However, James Lark, author of guide book The Fringe: Seeing It, Doing It,
Surviving It, said he believed that the big budget shows would still have an
advantage. “My concern is that many videos from some big names who have the
budget and the publicity machine behind them are going to look a lot better than
the unknown performers who could still be well worth seeing,” he said.
“Some of the best shows are actually the ones in tiny venues, the ones that
you have to take a risk on, and are unexpectedly brilliant.”
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