Friday, 12 August 2011
Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary: Talking down
Producer Richard Jordan is currently involved in the growing touring opportunities for last year's sweeping Fringe hit Roadkill...
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Friday, 12 August 2011
Kate Smurthwaite: 'Are women comics all pretty and giggly? Yes, especially Jo Brand'
I write this on behalf of all the women performing comedy at this year's Fringe...
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Friday, 12 August 2011
Ro Campbell: 'Even the police hire out performance space...'
My venue this year is The Stand IV, which the rest of the year is the Lothian & Borders Police Club's photocopier room, where drunk detectives go to immortalise their genitals forever on pieces of paper.
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Paul Daniels: 'We are all quite mad'
The first time I came to work the Fringe I did a two-hour show in a huge church. After about a week and a half I noticed most of the others were doing a 55-minute set...
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Liz Skitch: 'People want to know if playing accordion naked is dangerous'
By day I wear pigtails, rosy cheeks and clown shoes and by night I don false eyelashes, fishnets and high heels...
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Tiernan Douieb: 'There's been a mixture of emotions in the bar as news comes in of another building being destroyed'
For everyone performing at the Edinburgh Festival, sparing a thought outside the realm of the Fringe is a rare occurrence...
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary: Blanket coverage
Greenside venue is offering the ultimate relaxation to strung-out performers and overworked, underpaid festival volunteers: massage and aromatherapy...
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Tuesday, 09 August 2011
Tim Cornwell: Festival addicts | hacked off | secret sell-out
You can take the boy out of the Fringe, but you can't take the Fringe out of the boy. Two former Fringe directors are in the line-up for this year's programme, unable to kick that festival habit.
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Tuesday, 09 August 2011
Phil Mulryne: 'We are quivering wrecks, still dressed in suits and evening gowns'
THE Edinburgh Fringe seems like some benign theatrical lichen, spreading organically across the city, growing bigger every year. This year there are over 350 venues, and new and unusual spaces continually sprout up, from tents to public toilets to residential flats to swimming pools.
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Tuesday, 09 August 2011
Lloyd Langford: "The weather in Edinburgh isn't bad, it's schizophrenic"
IT SEEMS somewhat remiss of a Welshman to criticise Edinburgh's weather, but here goes anyway.
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