“We are repeatedly told that it is the biggest in the world, the largest arts festival of any kind, an artistically overstuffed August when, for three weeks, Edinburgh becomes the mother of all festivals – Official, Fringe, Film, Book, TV and now Club. But for too long, the Fringe has been inordinately concerned with size. Like an adolescent boy – and, for that matter, most males – it is obsessed with being the largest. But who’s counting? And does it matter?” – New Statesman 08/14/00