EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Seven
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.
These projects – #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview – showed the Edinburgh Fringe as it had never been seen before. And in that first year, when everyone had to stay at home, provided a surrogate fringe for its fans to witness from afar. There is an introduction to the projects here: #NothingToReviewHere.
This year, over the course of EdFringe 2024, we are publishing the images and words from the respective days of 2020 and 2021.
Thursday – the seventh day of the Fringe – things got a little out of kilter. We covered the 2021 venue (the Meadows) on Tuesday, so the second image is from an extra we did in 2020 thanks to super PR Michelle Mangan, who got us into the Traverse to take a pic on the stage for the opening of Shedinburgh – live theatre online created under social distancing rules.
It was already a properly special day: for our regular image we were joined by our friend Caroline Brockbank who runs Ceilidhkids, which has been upstairs at the Counting House during the Fringe for several years. I love the pic of Caroline dancing, but we didn’t use it in the original series, so I dropped it in at the end.
EdFringe: Days Seven
Edinburgh West Nicolson Street. Thursday 13 August 2020
Edinburgh. West Nicolson St. Thursday 13 August. Ed Fringe 2020 Day 7 With Caroline from CeilidhKids
Fallow EdFringe. Day 7: Peter Dibdin and I were there with special guest Caroline from Ceilidhkids
No Laughing Horse Comedy Clubs The Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Counting House or Pear Tree House.
No kids shows or theatre.
No ceilidh dancing or live music. No music, for that matter.
The beer garden’s open, though.
But not for comedy – that’s online, if you want it, not that you can flyer an online audience.
Not for music – live or otherwise.
#NothingToReviewHere #21Venues21Shirts #BrothersGonnaSnapItOut
Edinburgh Traverse. Thursday 13 August 2020
Shedinburgh. Edinburgh. Traverse Two. Thursday 13 Aug. EdFringe 2020 Day 7.
Fallow EdFringe Day 7: Peter Dibdin and I were there.
No Traverse Theatre Fringe, no audiences, no reviewers.
No The Scotsman Fringe Firsts.
No world premieres. No premieres.
No new writing.
No undiscovered talent.
Shedinburgh Fringe Festival launch
Solo performers. Online streaming.
Hand sanitiser. 2m distancing. Maximum 10 in a room. Covid-19 bubbles.
Peter Dibdin taking the official pics. (Thom Dibdin on photographer’s assistant duty)
1 shed. 1 bike. 1 loud shirt.
#21Venues21Shirts #extra, #NothingToReviewHere #OnlineReviewOnly #BrothersGonnaSnapItOut
Caroline Dancing. Edinburgh. West Nicolson St. Thursday 13 August. Ed Fringe 2020 Day 7
ENDS
