EdFringe
Ravenhill for Starters
For the first time ever, the Edinburgh Fringe had a welcoming address for participants. It was given on Friday the 2nd of August at Fringe Central by Mark Ravenhill.
Review – The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
★★★★☆ Douce and dirty
An evening stroll through Edinburgh’s Old Town to its New Town, visiting some of Edinburgh’s oldest pubs on the way, offers an entertaining evening of enlightenment told through the Capital’s rich and varied literary history.
Review – Bath Time
✭✭✭✩✩ Radge recollections:
Sex, drugs and hands-in-the-air euphoric tunes are bangin’ away at the heart of Ruaraidh Murray’s cannily personalising tale of nineties Edinburgh gangland life.
If the star system’s broke, fix it
To star or not to star?
To star or not to star, that was the question which leading theatre producer and actor Guy Masterson was fulminating over at the 2012 Edinburgh fringe.
EdFringe Day 5 – Highs and lows…
Burns, the Black Dog, Jaffa Cakes, heartless Chekhov, the Edinburgh-Leith divide and a gay musical By Thom Dibdin Assembly or Assembly Rooms? Who knows how the argument is going to fall out between the Stand’s Tommy Sheppard and Assembly’s William Burdett-Coutts – especially now that the latter has a year-round home in the city. No […]
EdFringe day 4 – Wild adventures in Circus Land
Family day on the fringe with Andy and Mike’s… Tick Tock Time Machine followed by a trip to the circus with the thrilling Wheel of Death.
EdFringe Day 3 – It’s raining, comics
All the fun of a Sunday on the Edinburgh fringe with the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards lunch, The Idiot On The Wall, Dr Quimpugh’s Compendium of Peculiar Afflictions and Half a Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths.
Review – Dr Faustus
Ambitious production of Doctor Faustus from the Grads aims high but needs greater concentration from the central performance.
EdFringe Day 2 – Here comes the Sun
Sunny Saturday in Edinburgh and time for a bit of voyeuring in Peep, a first glimpse of Assembly’s South African season in the Sewing Machine and an execrable football-skills show before the haar came in and I went off to FTC’s rejuvinating Once On This Island
EdFringe Day 1a – Harry Hill’s Hobby
Harry Hill brings his folk art to White Stuff on George Street – where you can find a fascinating conversation between him and David Shrigley and, sepately, a child-centred “child’s-eye guide to Edinburgh and its festivals”.
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