Friday, 26 August 2011
Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary, Friday 26 August
Comedian Paul Sinha bemoans the fact the Pleasance dominates the shortlists for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year...
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Jo Stephenson: 'What on earth is happening to my courgettes?'
While other festival performers are fretting about selling tickets, various technical problems and the fact someone has pasted a poster on top of the one they just put up, my main concern is: what on earth is happening to my allotment while I'm away?
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary, Wednesday 24 August
The herbs, vegetables and flowers of the Garden of Eichstatt in Bavaria, from castor-oil plants to clematis and sunflowers, made it famous as the most extravagant European garden of its day, 400 years ago...
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Tim Cornwell: Fomo at the Mouth |
A HIGH-PLACED Fringe source reveals the driving force behind the event's success: FOMO. Not a foam-like substance wielded by Fringe technical wizards, or a new initiative from Festivals Edinburgh.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Adam Paolozza: 'We took the fall of the blood sausage as a sign from god'
Last time I came to Edinburgh it was 2004. My company, TheatreRUN, brought Horror Vacui: A Twisted Tale, our first show.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Lloyd Langford: "I remember the first time I was offered salt and sauce. Sauce, I thought. That's worryingly non-specific"
I've been at the festival every year since 2002. I love the smell of Edinburgh. I love the whisky. I love the enthusiastic teenage actors who, by a cunning form of osmosis, I absorb all of my energy from. But most of all, I love the sauce.
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Monday, 22 August 2011
Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham: 'We need to bring back the tax-deductable three Martini lunch'
Dear Alex Salmond, How are you? Hope you're well. Don't be hoodwinked by that chatty intro as we're writing to you with a solution to not one, but two problems we've noticed since being here at the Edinburgh Fringe...
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