Finding a place to stay is a miserable ordeal thanks to soaring costs. Holly O’Mahony - who was forced to stay in a shed with chamber pot - investigates
has become a miserable ordeal. With the festival, now in its 76th year, attracting an estimated 400,000 visitors including 50,000 performers – many of whom stay for the entire run – every August the city’s population of 554,000 swells.
The arts industry is not exactly famous for overpaying its workforce. So, for those putting on a show at the Fringe, sacrifices have to be made.recommends budgeting a minimum of £1,000 per person for the month’s lodgings – regardless of whether you’re staying in vacant student halls or renting privately elsewhere. But even a one-man show cannot be staged with just one man. To get a roof over everyone’s heads, most production companies end up spending more on their housing than venue hire.
The inflated cost of accommodation nearly prevented Shannon Rewcroft, a theatremaker from Scarborough, from coming. She fundraised to bring her one-woman showto the festival for one week. “One place I looked at for just a week was [charging] £9,000. Premier Inn was £2,500. The cheapest we could get was student accommodation for £1,500 a week… It’s more than venue hire [£1,200, in Rewcroft’s case]; it’s more than everything else put together.
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