Edinburgh Meeting seeks charities for festival
'Any venues who want to host any shows at all that have any commercial profit element need an all-year-round licence, which is prohibitively expensive.'
Edinburgh Friends are looking for charities to host theatre performances at their venue this summer during the Edinburgh Festival. The shift away from profit-making theatre groups is due to new demands by Edinburgh Council that venues who want to host any commercial profit-making events need an all-year licence.
This means that the venue will not be hosting Michael Mears’ The Mistake, as was incorrectly stated in last week’s the Friend. Instead, the Meeting house – which turns into Venue 40 – will be operating on a much smaller scale this year.
Majk Stokes, assistant manager at the Edinburgh Meeting House, told the Friend that the new changes had made things ‘very complicated’: ‘It is no longer possible to get a short-term performance licence for the few weeks in August. Any venues who want to host any shows at all that have any commercial profit element need an all-year-round licence, which is prohibitively expensive, so the Meeting house is looking to host performances from charity companies where all moneys earned through the production will also go to charity.’
The Mistake will be performed in Edinburgh at the Space on North Bridge.
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