With this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe coming to an end on Monday, we’ve taken a look back in our archives at photos of the world’s largest arts festival taken in the 2010s.
With us already looking back at the Fringe in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, we finish our round-up in the 2010s. The usual sights of the Fringe were captured by our photographers in the 2010s, including young comedians who went onto bigger and better things after appearing in Edinburgh, including Kevin Bridges, Josie Long and James Acaster. While, top talent including Succession actor Brian Cox and children’s author Julia Donaldson were also in town.
. Edinburgh Beatles
The final day of the 2012 Fringe Festival. Pictured are some performers packing up and heading for home. Photo: Jane Barlow
. Rising star
A young Kevin Bridges is presented with the award for best Fringe comedy by Grant and Arlene at the Radio Forth Awards in 2010. The Glasgow comedian is now a household name and has played to thousands of people all over the world including a record-breaking 16 sold out nights at the Hydro last year. Photo: Ian Georgeson
. Bright lights
Crowds gathered on Lothian Road as projections lit up the Usher Hall in Edinburgh as the city's famous Fringe festival season got underway in 2018. Photo: David Cheskin/ PA
. Award nominee
Comedian James Acaster, who is now a household name and regular on comedy panel TV shows, was a finalist in the 2012 Fosters Comedy Awards at the Fringe, he lost out to winner Doctor Brown. Photo: Ian Rutherford
. Jumping for joy
The UK's hottest circus company Barely Methodical Troupe (BMT), who performed their show SHIFT as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 at Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows, perform some of their acrobatics on the top of Calton Hill with Edinburgh Castle and the Balmoral clock in the background. Guys on the ground left to right - Louis Gift, Elihu Vazquez, Charlie Wheeler and in the air is Esmeralda Nikolajeff Photo: Greg Macvean
. Knockout show
National Theatre of Scotland production Beautiful Burnout was performed at the Pleasance throughout the Fringe Festival in 2010. Pictured on stage (left to right) is Eddie Kay, Ryan Fletcher and Taqi Nazeer. Photo: Jane Barlow
. One to watch
English actress, screenwriter and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge won a Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe First Awards at the Assembly Bar in 2013 for her show Fleabag. The show of course went on to be a smash hit on the BBC, winning her three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and a British Academy Television Award. Photo: esme allen
. Top children's author
Popular children's author Julia Donaldson performing songs from her books with her husband Malcolm at the Fringe in 2018. Photo: STEVE ULLATHORNE
. Lost Girls
Peter Pan Feature: The Second Star to the Right, on at the Fringe in 2010. The cast are L to R, Mia De Graaf, Sarah Gordon, Janey Stephenson and Chi San Howard. Photo: Ian Rutherford
. Young star
Eleven-year-old Matthew Park from Stirling Primary performing as the 'Diablo Wonder' on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011. Photo: Dan Phillips
. Set to close
Pictured is volunteer and performer Sharon Smith at the Forest Fringe venue which closed at the end of the festival in 2011. Photo: Jane Barlow
. Winner
Edinburgh Festival 2012 Fosters Comedy Awards nominee Josie Long. The now regular face on TV lost out to American comedian Doctor Brown. Photo: Ian Rutherford
13. Puppet show
Pictured performing on stage at The Scotsman Fringe Awards 2011, held at the Assembly George Square, are 'The Table' puppet show. Photo: Jane Barlow
14. Tasty treats
Actress Alison Skilbeck as 'Sophia', one of four characters she played in Are There More of You? at the Fringe in 2011. She took her character to the Royal Mile to hand out cakes during the run. Photo: Francis Robinson
15. Happy birthday!
Fringe venue Underbelly celebrated 20 Fringes at its original home, Cowgate, in 2019. Through the colourful years fabulous artists and companies have flocked to Cowgate. Some of the big names that have graced its spaces include Stewart Lee, Eddie Redmayne, Russell Howard, Flight of the Conchords, Tim Minchin, Mark Owen and Keane among hundreds of others. Photo: Ian Georgeson
16. Terrors of war
Oliver Lansley on stage in the Trench at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012. Photo: Submitted