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The role of the Fringe Society is to facilitate the festival, concentrating mainly on the challenging logistics of organising such a large event. Alistair Moffat (Fringe administrator 1976–1981) summarised the role of the Society when he said, “As a direct result of the wishes of the participants, the Society had been set up to help the performers that come to Edinburgh and to promote them collectively to the public. It did not come together so that groups could be invited, or in some way artistically vetted. What was performed and how it was done was left entirely to each Fringe group”. This approach is now sometimes referred to as an unjuried festival, open access arts festival or a fringe festival.

Edinburgh has spawned many notable original shows and helped establish the careers of many writers and performers.

The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe#Open_...

Fringe theatre is theatre that is not of the mainstream.[clarification needed] The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe[citation needed], which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival (1948) as a "fringe", writing: "Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before".[1] The term has since been adopted by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and thence by alternative theatres and alternative theatre festivals.

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