Harvard University

Over 3,000 shows every year across 300 venues. Thousands of performers drawn from 47 countries around the globe. The largest international arts festival in the world. There is no place I am more content than at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every summer. It seems an odd juxtaposition at first; Edinburgh is an old, medieval city. History oozes out of every vein, from the cobbled streets to the magnificent stone castle that so dominates the skyline. Yet, for three weeks every August it is engulfed by an electrifying torrent of cutting- edge, experimental music, theatre, dance and comedy. I have…