contractor edward snowden leaked details of america's spy program making him a trade tore some and an inspiration to others, fill lavell report from the edwin brook fringe fet value in scott land. >> reporter: true had head of edward snowden 18 months ago, they know who he is now, his reservations of mass surveillance has given his government headaches. but they have given others inspiration and ideas. surveillance is in this year, it's one of the big themes at the 2014 fringes, people watching shows about shows about people watching people. it seems when we come to the subject of big brother, the audience just can't get enough. just look at light this is a dark vision of the future, directly inspired by the snowden revelations it's like 1984 and our 2014. >> what was perceived before as being far fetched and kind of paranoid is now the reality. we are being watched, you know, on skype, text message and i feel very uncomfortable about the fact that people are watching me and everybody else without our content we were never asked. i want to engage in that debate and make a piece of theater that makes people think about this. >> reporter: not