XperTeatro tracing back the Spirit of'47 at Edinburgh International Festival - II Part ( 1961-1

In 1947 the Edinburgh International Festival brought together artists and audiences to look to the future, mend bridges, and to encourage a new exchange of ideas and culture which was both profoundly international and rooted in the city of Edinburgh.

..... and other memorable moments of the last 70 years of the Festival

1961-1965

Festival Director : George Henry Hubert Lascelles / 7th Earl of Harewood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lascelles,_7th_Earl_of_Harewood

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/theatre/leith-s-citadel-theatre-set-for-rebirth-after-nearly-30-years-1-4275447

http://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/may-10-1961-bennett-cook-miller-and-moore-launch-satire-boom-with-beyond-the-fringe-11363980258513

http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/1962-international-writers-conference/

http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/background/

http://dschjournal.com/wordpress/onlinearticles/dsch37_edinburgh.pdf

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/international-festival-when-shostakovich-pulled-aside-the-iron-curtain-1-4514853

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/11/edinburgh-writers-conference-literature

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/documents/libraries-collections/special-collections/edinburg-new.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/09/edinburgh-wooster-group-hamlet-remix-interview

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eqhrzc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034md2x

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/12/from-the-classical-archive-pierre-boulez-edinburgh-festival-1965

---

1966-1978

Festival Director : Peter Diamand

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-peter-diamand-1139944.html

http://www.mckellen.com/stage/r2/prospect.htm

https://www.leiththeatretrust.org/history-of-leith-theatre/

http://www.demarco-archive.ac.uk/richard_demarco_biography.pdf

http://variety.com/2015/legit/reviews/the-encounter-edinburgh-international-festival-1201566545/

http://www.euyo.eu/about/honorary/president-co-founder/

https://kar.kent.ac.uk/12945/1/Stanfield_edinburgh_essay.pdf

http://www.mckellen.com/stage/edward/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5jSBpkcxJb6lZFDLMWXqHgY/odd-couple-how-joseph-beuys-and-richard-demarco-helped-change-british-art

https://theartsjournal.net/2017/07/19/cultural-interactions-at-the-edinburgh-festivals-c1947-1971/

http://contemporarylynx.co.uk/richard-demarco-i-dont-believe-that-tadeusz-kantor-is-dead

http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/events/the-water-hen-kantor-demarco-the-edinburgh-festival/

https://www.discogs.com/Cathy-Berberian-At-The-Edinburgh-Festival/release/2484100

http://www.mckellen.com/stage/faustus/

https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1977/01/regrouping-reflections-on-the-edinburgh-festival-1976/

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/bizet-carmen-24

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-peter-diamand-1139944.html

---

1979-1983

Festival Director : Sir. John Richard Gray Drummond

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-john-drummond-415063.html

http://www.cheekbyjowl.com/company.php

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beuys-avant-garde-art-whats-going-up-in-the-80s-edinburgh-international-festival-the-ar00829

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/aug04c.shtml

https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/94038-minefield/

---