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Blog – Found at Sea
Every bit of Found at Sea is brilliant. This “preview of work in progress” at the Traverse to Saturday, is a succession of shimmering moments and glittering sequences.
Sir Sandy Crombie Replies
Response from Creative Scotland chair to artists’ letter By Thom Dibdin Yesterday, as reported in The Stage, 100 Scottish artists wrote an open letter to Sir Sandy Crombie, chairman of the board of Creative Scotland. The complete text the letter and its signatories is on the BBC website here. This evening, Sir Sandy has responded […]
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.
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”.
EdFringe Day 1 – Get in there!
An economist, an old comic, some love letters and the blind By Thom Dibdin The sun still shines even though the Edinburgh Fringe is now officially open. Surely some mistake? Equally sure, is the prediction that it won’t last. Today is time to check out a couple of new venues – or old ones reinvented. […]
EdFringe day 0 – Ready for the off….
Day zero at the Edinburgh Fringe 2012 – with the King’s Theatre, Pleasance Brookes Bar, the lovingly named Poop Project and the utterly lovely Patch of Blue Theatre’s spelling bee. Oh, and the first #Fail for the Laughing Horse Free Fringe
