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A Flare of Firework Facts

A Flare of Firework Facts

The EIF’s firework concert – or as we have learned to call it in recent years, the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert – must be one, if not the, favourite event at the Edinburgh International Festival. Here are a few facts and tips for getting the best out of the event.

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1812 fireworks app

1812 fireworks app

New IOS app to recreate EIF fireworks
Edinburgh’s visitors for the fringe can get a taste of what they miss at the end of the International Festival, with a new IOS app which allows users to create a musical fireworks display.

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Letters Home to live on?

Letters Home to live on?

Further outings possible for Grid Iron sell-out: Anyone unable to find a ticket for Grid Iron and the Book Festival’s Letters Home may be placated by the suggestion that further productions are possible.

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New Venue for Hyde & Seek

New Venue for Hyde & Seek

Hyde and Seek, Michael Daviot’s show which has been plagued by noise-bleed at C-Nova on Cockburn street, is to move to a new building within the C family of venues.

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Nudity censored at EdFringe

Nudity censored at EdFringe

Actress Elizabeth Sogorb is being forced to wear a flesh-coloured catsuit in her performance of La Nina Barro at the fringe because venue The Newsroom has objected to the nakedness which is an integral part of the show.

Aug 3 2014 | By | 1 Reply More
Hyde seeks new venue

Hyde seeks new venue

Hyde & Seek, Michael Daviot’s play about his 50 year relationship with the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, has had to cancel two performances at its C Nova venue and Daviot is now actively looking for a replacement venue.

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Greig kickstarts funding after closure

Greig kickstarts funding after closure

Playwright David Greig, one of the 50 signatories to the letter calling for Underbelly not to programme Israeli state-supported Incubator Theatre at the fringe, has reacted to this week’s cancellation of the show with a new Kickstarter fund for Israeli and Palestinian theatre makers.

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Made in Edinburgh

Made in Edinburgh

A significant proportion of Edinburgh fringe productions were actually made in Edinburgh. Eighty five, in all, this year. Here is Æ’s listing of them.

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