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皇家英里大道, 爱丁堡, 苏格兰 Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland (© MEDITERRANEAN/Getty Images)

惊喜随时上演 Expect the unexpected

爱丁堡艺穗节

每年八月，爱丁堡就不再仅仅是一座城市，而是彻底活跃起来，几乎可以说是字面意义上的活跃。从酒吧地下室到公园长椅，舞台会在最意想不到的地方冒出来，表演也会在宁静的街道上突然出现。欢迎来到爱丁堡艺穗节。这个节日的故事始于1947年，当时有八个剧团在未受邀请的情况下出现在爱丁堡国际艺术节上，但他们依然坚持演出。这种叛逆的精神从此延续下来，艺穗节由此诞生。

如今，它已是世界上最大的艺术节，数千场演出在为期三周的日程里接连上演，任何人都可以参与。只要你有想法，并能找到一个场地，就可以上台表演。甚至一个集装箱都可以被用作舞台，这确实曾经发生过。喜剧是这个艺术节的非官方之王，但也少不了戏剧、舞蹈、变装、音乐剧、魔术、哑剧、朗诵、马戏以及那些难以归类的表演。有一年，一位演员在冰箱里做了一个小时的独白；还有一年，有人用克林贡语上演了一部莎士比亚剧作。街头艺人挤满了如今日图片所示的皇家大道，他们表演魔术、杂耍，并热情地分发宣传单。爱丁堡艺穗节是实验性表演与高端戏剧的乐园，也是许多艺术家职业生涯的起点，比如菲比·沃勒-布里奇和埃迪·伊扎德。

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Every August, Edinburgh stops being just a city and starts acting up—literally. From pub basements to park benches, stages appear in the strangest places, and shows pop up on quiet streets. Welcome to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, or the Fringe. The story began in 1947, when eight theater groups turned up uninvited to the Edinburgh International Festival. They performed anyway. That spirit of rebellion stuck, and the Fringe was born.

Now it's the world's largest arts festival, with thousands of shows crammed into three action-packed weeks. Anyone can perform. If you have an idea and a venue, you're in. Even a shipping container counts—yes, that really happened. Comedy is the unofficial king of the festival, but there's also drama, dance, drag, musicals, magic, mime, spoken word, circus, and acts that defy all categories. One year, a man did an hour-long monologue from inside a fridge. Another year featured a full Shakespeare play in Klingon. Street performers flood the Royal Mile, pictured here, offering sneak peeks, juggling acts, and flyers. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is where experimental performances and high-end theater thrive. It has launched careers: think of artists like Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Eddie Izzard.

夜晚的爱丁堡城市天际线，苏格兰 Edinburgh city skyline at night, Scotland (© Suranga Weeratuna/Alamy)

节日热潮 Festival fever

Edinburgh festivals

Here's the world-famous Edinburgh Castle, lit up in all its glory as it keeps watch over Scotland's capital city. Today the castle hosts the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a full-on Scottish experience, with bagpipes, drums, and seemingly enough kilts to cover all of Scotland. Enthusiastic visitors can also indulge in whisky and haggis in one of the many hostelries on the Royal Mile, the colorful, bustling historic street that wends its way from the castle down to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Queen Elizabeth II's official residence in Scotland.

The Tattoo is a spectacular show of military music, dancing, and ceremony that runs alongside the Edinburgh International Festival, which starts today and goes through August 27, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Aug. 5-29), its sprawling, less formal sidekick. The main festival—celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2022—is an invitation-only event that brings together top classical musicians and stage performers from around the globe. The Fringe is decidedly casual. It's the world's largest arts festival and features all types of music, street performers, amateur theater productions, stand-up comedy, and more, often in city streets, church halls, pubs...basically any available space. Think free-spirited and fun. One thing's certain: Edinburgh in August keeps everyone entertained.

爱丁堡音乐节

这是举世闻名的爱丁堡城堡，它在守卫苏格兰首都的同时，灯火通明。今天，城堡里有皇家爱丁堡军事纹身，这是一次充满苏格兰风情的经历，风笛、鼓和方格呢短裙似乎足以覆盖整个苏格兰。热情的游客还可以在皇家大道（Royal Mile）上的众多招待所之一尽情享受威士忌和哈吉斯酒。皇家大道是一条色彩斑斓、熙熙攘攘的历史街区，从城堡一直延伸到伊丽莎白女王二世在苏格兰的官邸霍利罗德豪斯宫（Palace of Holyroodhouse）。

纹身是一场壮观的军事音乐、舞蹈和仪式表演，与爱丁堡国际艺术节（从今天开始，一直持续到8月27日）和爱丁堡边缘艺术节（8月5日至29日）同时举行。爱丁堡艺术节是其规模庞大、不太正式的伙伴。2022年庆祝其75周年的主要节日是一个邀请活动，汇集了来自世界各地的顶级古典音乐家和舞台表演者。流苏绝对是随意的。这是世界上最大的艺术节，以各种类型的音乐、街头艺人、业余戏剧制作、单口喜剧等为特色，通常在城市街道、教堂大厅、酒吧……基本上是任何可用空间。想一想自由和乐趣。有一件事是肯定的：八月的爱丁堡让每个人都很开心。

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