The Edinburgh Fringe is the world's largest arts festival and takes place every year in the Scottish capital. Founded in 1947, it attracts thousands of visitors from around the world and provides an open-access platform for emerging talent to showcase their work to a global audience.

The Edinburgh Fringe is the world's largest arts festival and takes place every year in the Scottish capital.

A carnival atmosphere for the world's artists. Once again, the Fringe transforms Edinburgh into a festive city. Music, comedy, theatre, dance and children's shows. They all provide for a programme that caters to all ages and appetites.

Over 3,000 incredible shows can be found in hundreds of venues across the city, like these pubs and some unusual venues. Totally open-access, the Fringe welcomes anyone with a story to tell.

Music, comedy, theatre, dance and children's shows. They all provide for a programme that caters to all ages and appetites.

This year commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, whose legacy is very much alive at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

Inspired by audience suggestion, this year's tribute performance creates an entirely new Shakespeare play on the spot.

Notions of love, tragedy and power struggle are naturally incorporated, providing the audience with a true Shakespeare experience.

"So the idea of Impromptu Shakespeare is that we try to improvise or create a brand new Shakespeare play. It stays close to the style of Shakespeare as we can as still improvise and having fun," said Rebecca MacMillan.

"We sort of all picked a play that is our favorite play from Shakespeare and took elements out of those so items and objects, themes, ideas from the play we like and words as well."

The Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet also made its debut in Edinburgh. Shakespeare’s most famous love story is retold in the traditional Chinese opera style called "Kunqu".

"Romeo and Juliet have blond hair but we perform with traditional Chinese opera costumes," said Liu Jie, performer, "Romeo & Juliet".

"We also use a singing style which the original doesn’t have. Dancing is also a unique feature of the Kunqu opera. We add it to our performance and give the audience another version of Romeo and Juliet."

As one of the oldest forms of Chinese opera, Kunqu pre-dates Shakespeare’s play by around 200 years. All the beauty of traditional Chinese opera are fit in perfectly into this year's stunning tale of two star-crossed lovers.

With a packed schedule bouncing from show to show, time is never enough to experience all of the wonders Scotland has to offer.