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Eight theater groups not invited to the first Edinburgh International Festival perform anyway. The Fringe is born.
A visiting Cambridge troupe includes Eric Idle. A group from Oxford brings Michael Palin. Both go on to Monty Python fame.
Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead has its world premiere.
Dawn French and future Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders perform at the Assembly Rooms. Elsewhere in the building: Eric Bogosian.
Jerry Springer: The Opera takes the Fringe by storm.
Hamlet is performed entirely in a bouncy castle. The Guardian remarks, "There are things that can only happen in Edinburgh, and this is one of them."
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