Edinburgh Festival Fringe Announces 2012 Line-Up

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe truly promises to be the greatest show on earth with more artists performing more work, in more venues, than ever before. A 6% increase on last year's programme will see 2,695 shows take to theatres, pubs, nooks, crannies and gardens all over Scotland's capital in August. This 2012 Fringe programme makes space for the introduction of a Spoken Word category.

Everything from poetry to oratory and storytelling to reportage has a place here. Scotland's Makar (National Poet) Liz Lochhead will be one of the first 41 shows to be listed in this new category with Liz Lochhead: Making Nothing Happen (Assembly Rooms, p251). Luke Wright - Your New Favourite Poet (Underbelly, p252) returns after a strong reception in 2011. Mark Grist - Rogue Teacher (Underbelly, p252) became an internet sensation last year after a video of him and one of his pupils in a rap battle went viral. As well as Spoken Word, this year?s Fringe programme contains the usual heady mix of Cabaret, Children?s shows, Comedy, Dance and Physical Theatre, Events, Exhibition, Music, Musicals and Opera and Theatre.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has also announced that for the first time ever there will be a box office operating in Glasgow for the duration of the Fringe. The new box office will, thanks to the support of First ScotRail, be based at Glasgow Queen Street Station and will open on 27 July, selling tickets from 8.00am to 8.00pm every day until 27 August.

TICKETING INFORMATION: 

Box Office: Glasgow Queen Street Station. Opened from 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. 

Sales by Phone: +44 (0)131 226 0000

Online: http://www.edfringe.com/contact-us/box-office

Tickets Sale Dates: July 27th - August 27.