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Why this year’s Edinburgh fringe was so obsessed with death

30 August 2023

5:00 PM

30 August 2023

5:00 PM

The Edinburgh Festival is finally over, but why was this year’s event so obsessed with dying? Death is the new Black, at least according to the artists at the fringe where our mortality has been eviscerated, diced, disembowelled, deconstructed and fed back in a torrent of death shows to an army of avid theatre goers ever hungry, it seems, for new interpretations of our predictable demise.

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