Scarborough's Fringe festival is set to conclude its ten day run this weekend, having offered a wide array of performances across various venues in the town.
The final days promise a blend of opera, drama, and comedy, alongside poetry, music, and dance.
The festival has been widely lauded for its positive impact on the community.
Nicola Mills is an opera singer from a working class background who wants to bring opera to normal people.
She will be performing tomorrow and says the Fringe festival is putting Scarborough on the map.
"I like the sense of community. 'cause there is, it's still got it, it's still got that feel.
From busking, I watch people all the time. I'm observing and also in front of an audience. I have to work them out. And how to connect with them.
I think it's absolutely brilliant that Scarborough's doing something like this. It's putting it on the map and it's bringing so many different things into the town.
But what I liked is I got an absolutely fantastic warm community welcome as well."
Nicola combines her "down to earth Northern roots with singing ‘opera’". The unique performance allows the audience to choose songs from a "Song Menu" ranging from Mozart to musicals to Elvis. Mills herself stated that the Fringe festival is "putting Scarborough on the map". This "funny and inspiring show," described as "Victoria Wood meets Pavarotti" and "taking the ‘posh’ out of opera," will take place on June 21, 2025, at 7:30 pm at St Mary's Parish Church. The 120-minute performance has tickets starting from £10.
A highlight of the weekend's comedy offerings is the Scarborough Fringe Comedy Gala, featuring a line-up of "hilarious specially-selected stand-up comedians".
Comedian Nick Copping is a regular at fringe events in Brighton, Edinburgh and Adelaide, he'll be appearing for the first time at the Scarborough event.
"I just think it's just great what it brings to a town because, certainly now live entertainment isn't quite a supported it's certainly in the same way that it was before COVID, I don't think and live comedy has been suffering a little bit with numbers for many years now.
And so I think a fringe raises awareness of things like standup comedy.
I think it's a real sense of community with a fringe and people tend to get behind it. They get quite proud of it. So yeah, it creates a good sense of community and raises awareness of live entertainment, of all sorts, really.
So I think it's gonna be great that Scarborough has that too."
The gala is scheduled for June 21, 2025, at 6:00 pm at the Grand Hotel Scarborough, with a duration of 120 minutes and tickets starting from £8.
Adding a historical dimension to the festival, a storytelling performance will bring to life "The Battle of Flamborough Head." This event, presented by David Newton and crew for Yorkshire Coast 1779, delves into an "important international event which took place off our coast in 1779".
Performances are scheduled multiple times throughout the final weekend at Scarborough Castle, including 11:30 am and 2:30 pm on both June 21 and June 22, 2025. Each storytelling session runs for 20 minutes and offers free admission.
The full programme of Scarborough Fringe events is at https://scarboroughfair.uk/events/
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