EdFest
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
