Great War Theatre

Fred Lumley and the Winter Carnival by Stuart Gibbs

The theatre community of the Great War was often involved in fundraising events. In 1917 and 1918, Edinburgh’s theatre community came together to raise large amounts of money through a series of carnivals. The first took place in the early months of 1917, and was organised by Edinburgh’s carnival impresario Fred Lumley. Fred Lumley Lumley… continued →