Would You Like To Do An Edinburgh Fringe Q and A with The Recs?

By The Recs SCD - Steve Coats-Dennis 13 hours ago
Over the last five years, The Recs has positioned itself as one of the sites to visit for Fringe. We have given the first professional reviews to shows like Mythos: Ragnarok, which have gone on to sell out around the world. We’ve raved about productions such as Cadel: Lungs on Legs, Gwyneth Goes Skiing, and The Last Laugh, which have since toured the UK, Australia, Ireland, and the United States. We gave early support to Rob Madge: My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?), which went on to play Off-Broadway and is returning to the West End.

A New Opportunity

For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, we are trying something different.

We will not be doing any of our usual interviews ahead of the Fringe. Instead, between mid-June and Friday, 31 July, we are offering Edinburgh Fringe Q & A interviews for which there will be a £50 admin fee.

This is a terrific way for you to get the early word out there about what you are bringing to Edinburgh, to capture the all-important early attention of our readers and Fringe goers, and to have a chance to discuss your work in your own words.

How will this work?
If you are bringing a show to the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe, from today you can request a Q & A slot to be hosted on our website by emailing promo@therecs.co.uk expressing your interest – please include the name of the show, your venue(s) and dates you are playing in this initial contact. If you have a press release, please include it, so we get a good feel for your show.
 
We will then send out our Q&A questions for you to fill in your answers and return to us.
 
We ask you to include at least one textless image for us to use with your Q&A – sending us more than one is helpful, as we can choose what works best.
 
When you’ve written your answers, you should pay the non-refundable admin fee of £50 into PayPal and let us know that you have done so in your email with your returned answers.
 
From mid-June onwards, we shall publish your Q&As on The Recs website – in the order that we receive the completed replies. We are a small team, but we will aim to process these as quickly as possible. We want them to be out there for readers and, more importantly, Fringe ticket buyers to have the maximum time to read your Q&A. They shall remain on our website for the duration of the 2026 Fringe.

Why charge £50 fee per Q&A interview?

We appreciate that the Edinburgh Fringe can be a costly venture, where you have to decide where your budget is best spent.

Given that you get the chance to talk about your show to an existing audience of Fringe enthusiasts who have followed The Recs’ Edinburgh coverage over successive years, at a key time in getting the word out about your show in the run-up to the Fringe, it seems a canny use for a small part of your budget.

Additionally, any money that The Recs makes from this venture is a way of subsidising the work we do as an arts recommendation site. 

Any Questions?

If you’d like to find out more or have anything clarified, please drop us a line on promo@therecs.co.uk

Essential terms and conditions

      1. The questions for your Q&A will follow a standardised format – although, time permitting, we may try and include a bespoke question – it is up to you to sell your show by giving interesting, concise replies.
      2. The answers that you supply cannot be altered once they are published so the responsibility for ensuring that your replies are mistake-free is yours. Any request to amend following publication will incur an additional admin fee.
      3. Choosing to have a Fringe Q&A on The Recs website is entirely separate from The Recs editorial team and their decisions what shows to review. Having a Fringe Q&A on site will neither improve nor decrease the chances of The Recs reviewing your show.
      4. The Recs has a premium hosting package but cannot take responsibility for any website downtime or outages beyond our control. There will be no planned downtime during the Fringe.
      5. We can only accept one Q&A per show title.
      6. The Recs reserves the right not to accept any Q&A without needing to provide a reason – and no fee will be taken.
      7. As this is the first year we have attempted this, if demand proves overwhelming, we reserve the right to stop accepting applications for Fringe Q&As earlier than the advertised stop point of Friday 31 July.
      8. No Q&A applications submitted after Friday 31 July 23:59 GMT will be included.

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