Four-day open-access arts festival of theatre, music, comedy, dance and spoken word across Scarborough venues, with three shows at the Market Vaults.
Scarborough Winter Fringe returns from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November, four days of theatre, music, comedy, dance, spoken word and children's shows spread across the town. It's the shorter winter sibling of the Scarborough Fringe, which runs for ten days in June, and it comes back for a second year alongside the Winter Art festival to give local and visiting creatives a platform when the town is outside its main tourist season.
With Halloween sitting in the middle of the weekend, the bill leans into the supernatural, with ghost stories built from true tales of Scarborough residents. Saturday 31 October is a particularly busy day, with three performances across different venues: Tales from the Vaults by Arts Coven at the Market Vaults, Cheap Psychic Help at Shakespeare Scratch Space by SCBO, and One Man MacBeth at Burniston and Cloughton Village Hall. The Fringe is open-access, so the programme pulls from a wide range of styles rather than sticking to one.
Comedy makes a strong showing this year. Richard Pulsford has seen his jokes land in the Top Ten Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe, and Aidan Jones's Chopin's Nocturne was a Best Show nominee at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2023. This edition also marks Scarborough's 400th anniversary as a seaside resort, which the local choir celebrates in Songs for the Scarborough 400.
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Some events are free and some are ticketed, with many of the smaller venues offering 'pay what you want' prices. The full programme runs from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November across venues including the Market Vaults, Shakespeare Scratch Space by SCBO and Burniston and Cloughton Village Hall.
