PBH Free Fringe - policy confusion

Hello all,

For the many of you who don't know me, I am James and I am helping to run the Peter Buckley Hill (PBH) Free Fringe this year.

We just want to sort out a little bit of confusion concerning our policies with regards to the Laughing Horse.
The understanding of many is that if you have been involved with the Laughing Horse before you are not allowed to subsequently join the PBH Fringe. This isn't true!

Just to be clear:

1) Performing a show as part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival does not prohibit you from performing future shows as part of the PBH Fringe.

2) If you have performed a show as part of the PBH Free Fringe before and have chosen to perform under the Laughing Horse banner at a subsequent time you will never be prohibited from returning.

3) Laughing Horse artists are welcome to perform guest spots in PBH shows while PBH artists are welcome to perform guest spots in Laughing Horse shows.

The only limitations to performing under the PBH banner is that you must sign-up to and abide by the ethos and conditions (available here: http://www.freefringeforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1513).

Sorry for any confusion these issues may have caused. If anyone has any questions please PM me and I will hope to answer them as soon as possible.

Thanks,

James

An appendage: For those of you who may not know, the PBH Free Fringe is the largest promoter of acts at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We are a non-profit organisation that offers artists the ability to perform without the burdens and stresses of financial risk. This year we hosted 5,850 performances of 385 shows in 35 venues across Edinburgh. For more information please visit our (soon to be dramatically improved) website: http://freefringe.org.uk/

Hello James nice to meet you and what an unusual post. I assume you're looking for feedback? Well it's very well structured and the characterisation is excellent. But it lacks humour, jokes and the character of the patiently explaining fringe promoter is a cliche.

So it's a miss for me, but a near miss. Better luck next time!

What is PBH?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buckley_Hill

Thanks for the feedback sootyj,

I know, I was in two minds about the whole patient promoter characterisation too. Part of me wanted to make it a little more topical and go for the ravaged doomsday prophet angle... You know pillars of flame, four laughing horses of the apocalypse etc...

However, I stopped myself... was the world really ready for this sort of truth? Could Peter Buckley-Hill be both the saviour we needed and the saviour we deserved? ...And if so how would he appear?

In robes? Spandex? A malfunctioning DeLorean?

I held back, it was a mistake. My apologies.

On a serious note, I have now included a link to the PBH Free Fringe website and ammended PBH to also include Peter's name. I am free to answer any questions should they appear.

Can I also ask people to keep an eye out for anyone who still thinks our policies are harsher than they are. We are by performers, for performers so any rules to limit gigging oppurtunities would hurt us equally.

Hi James,

I'm glad I found this post, because as a fringe virgin, I'm planning on take a comedy play to Edinburgh's free fringe this year and was trying to decipher whether PBH or Laughing Horse would be a better fit for us.

I have to say that reading the PBH policies about not being allowed to essentially discuss the potentiality of working with laughing horse when discussing it with PBH (as I understand it) threw me a little, especially when we're just trying to navigate the best opportunity, with many questions to ask.

I'd love to chat with you if this opportunity is possible

Gemma