Fringe benefits: does playing Edinburgh really help your career?

Ranking behind only the Olympics and football’s World Cup as a ticketed affair, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a fabled event, one with tradition on its side and a contemporary reputation for making careers.

Theatre-maker Bron Batten made her third trek to the festival this year with her one-woman show Waterloo, which details her relationship with a soldier she initially met on an onstage date. Her show attracted strong notices, but she says a perfect storm of external events made the 2022 festival a tougher one for artists.