Watch timelapse Fringe venue Shedinburgh is built in less than two weeks

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Watch timelapse as new Fringe venue Shedinburgh, by Baby Reindeer and Fleabag producer Francesca Moody, is built in less than two weeks.

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00:00I'm Jim Bradley, Arts and Culture Correspondent at The Scotsman, and I'm here today at Sheddenborough,

00:07one of the newest venues of the Edinburgh Fringe, which has just opened today.

00:12And I'm here with Darcy Dobson, who is the producer of the new venue, and I'm just going

00:17to talk to you a little bit about how you have turned a tiny bar in the Edinburgh College

00:21of Art into a fringe venue in less than two weeks.

00:25I mean, the secret to building a fringe venue in two weeks is to go build it in two weeks.

00:30And the honest truth to this is we've installed this venue in two weeks, but we've been building

00:35it for years, if you want it to be.

00:37And this was originally an idea that obviously Francesco and Harriet and Gary came up with

00:42five years ago, and it was about platforming the Edinburgh Fringe and the incredible global

00:49platform that provides the artists.

00:51And it was about stripping back the production elements and letting the storytelling shine.

00:56That was really always at the core of what Edinburgh was.

00:58And when we came to build this venue, that was really our north star for all of this, about

01:04supporting artists and letting storytelling sing and do that.

01:08And what we used to dictate everything as we started to plan out what we wanted to pretend

01:11to look like.

01:12We knew we wanted to be an artist hub, we knew we wanted to do a cafe and a bar in the daytime,

01:16great wifi, amazing coffee, plug socket, a place that artists can go and make their own.

01:22We wanted a courtyard.

01:23But we also wanted it to be a really gorgeous intimate theatre.

01:26We've always felt that magic happens in small spaces.

01:28And as we thought we were looking at these different places, we just touched Edinburgh,

01:31but we were a gardener, it felt like a perfect place.

01:33It's so small and gorgeous and intimate.

01:36And yeah, so that's sort of where it all began and that's the idea behind it.

01:41And hopefully that bleeds through into everything from the venue to the programme we've got in

01:45the meeting.

01:46And the other side to how you build a venue in two weeks is, the most important of that

01:53is building the team.

01:54And I think we're saying, you know, in this video, you've got, of the building of Sheddenbury,

01:58you've seen how many people have come in and out and that's just the people on the site.

02:01But, you know, everyone from our amazing design team, our production team, our venue team,

02:05our marketing team, you know, these guys are the top of their game.

02:10They're designers and people who work at the West End or the UK.

02:14But when we came to them and said, we've got this mad, bonkers project, we'd love you

02:17to be involved.

02:18And they said, yes, because they believe in what Edinburgh is about.

02:22And so they agreed, they came on board.

02:25And I can't wait for you to see it because, my gosh, they put absolutely everything into

02:30this with details of it and being able to let everyone do their job and just know that

02:34everyone is getting on with doing everything to the absolute high standard.

02:38But then, you know, yesterday we were finishing up and it was 1am and everyone had a brim

02:43in their hand and they were sweeping up.

02:45And I think that's the fringe.

02:46It's these incredible people at the top of their game who are also not afraid to come

02:50in and get their hands dirty.

02:52It's incredible.

02:53It's fantastic and it looks amazing.

02:55And I've been lucky enough to watch it in full.

02:56I've been here every day for about the last 12 days filming a time lapse.

02:59So we can watch that video now.

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