Surgeons Quarter (SQ), one of Edinburgh’s largest Fringe performing spaces, boasted a record 250,000 visitors to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s (RCSEd) campus, hosting 248 productions with festival producers theSpaceUK, making it the most successful business period to-date.
As well as record attendances, their on-site Ten Hill Place Hotel also saw occupancy levels rise to 99.5% across the month of August.
Scott Mitchell, Managing Director of SQ said, “Each year we continue to grow and we’re incredibly proud of what we have achieved this year with record numbers coming in.
“Working with such a talented organisation such as theSpaceUK again this year has been extremely rewarding and we’re delighted with how well received each show was at this year’s Fringe.”
Celebrating its 14th year as one of the largest Fringe venues, SQ operated five festival bars, and transformed its Courtyard Bar and Hill Square Gardens into a fiesta of flavour with Mexican street food created by SQ’s Executive Chef Dominik Kawalec.
As the commercial arm of RCSEd, profits from the Surgeons Quarter portfolio go towards the advancement of surgery and the improvement of patient outcomes worldwide.