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Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe
Rebecca Mahar talks to the great monodramatist.
To say that Pip Utton, has done all the biggies, from Hitler to Thatcher, Francis Bacon to William Shakespeare, from Lear to Dickens, is to undervalue the nature of his performance. Utton has been those people, in a series of monodramas that allow him inhabit them like a chameleon on a leaf.
Edinburgh and Avignon
A tale of two cities, two world class theatre festivals and their shared commitment to endure.
Marion Geoffray reports back from Avignon, where she led Project Passerelle – a delegation of nine Scottish artists and programmers who spent five days and four nights at Avignon’s OFF and IN festivals. Here she reflects on what Edinburgh and Avignon might build together next.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Nine
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Today, we marked the opening day of the Book Festival…
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Eight
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here are the two days featuring the Assembly Roxy.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Six
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here’s day Six. The day of the random ice skater…
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Five
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here’s day 5 – with THAT wee dog on photobombing duty!
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Four
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Day Four: The Pleasance.
Shakespeare adjacent pairings
It’s the Bard, Bill, just not as you know him
Following Necessary Cat’s brilliant pairing of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Fringe of 2023, the Edinburgh-based company is back with Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Three
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. EdFringe day three.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Two
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here’s Day Two.
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