STARTPOINT FRINGE DAYS fringe weekend three planned
With so much to do, it can be hard working out how to spend your Fringe days. But fear not. To give you a head start this weekend ThreeWeeks asked three Fringe acts to plan a weekend of festival shenanigans for you, each taking a day. So, here’s your itinerary, starting with Friday.
His Piano’ at 7pm. Then send John Emburey a text - don’t want to bother him on his special day. In bed by nine.
James Sherwood: One Man and His Piano, GRV, 6 – 29 Aug (not 16, 23), 7.00pm (8.00pm), £5.00, fpp 75.
SATURDAY 21 AUGUST by the New Art Club
Early start. Go to the Traverse and see Tim Crouch’s ‘The Author’ at 10.15am (playful, dark, thought provoking) or Daniel Kitson at 10.00am. Then meander to the Pleasance to see ‘You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy’ (Pleasance, 12.45pm), it’s beautifully written and brilliantly performed, laugh/ cry - the lot. Then have a break. You’ll need it to prepare yourself for the sheer joy of seeing New Art Club’s ‘Big Bag of Boom’ (7.15pm Assembly). I haven’t seen it (I’m in it) but I’ve heard it’s a stonker. It ought to be. It’s the funniest and best bits of our last twelve years of shows. Silly, philosophical, arty, dancy, comedy fun. If you don’t like that then what are you doing here fringe-goer? Happy Saturday.
New Art Club: Big Bag Of Boom, Assembly, 5 - 29 Aug (not 17), 7.15pm (8.15pm), £11.00 - £14.00, fpp 102.
P06-09 We chat to the brilliant Kevin Eldon, with Idiots Of Ants, and to cover star Susan Calman, plus reviews and columns
THEATRE
P11 Check out some ThreeWeeks reviews from the cabaret strand of the Fringe, including the Cabaret Whore’s 5/5 rated review
PHYSICAL COMEDY CABARET
P12-14 Meet Phillip Herbert in his Naked Splendor, plus John Burns discusses his show about Aleister Crowley, and reviews
MUSICALS
SATURDAY 21 AUGUST by Geraldine Quinn
FRIDAY 20 AUGUST by James Sherwood
Realise you’ve forgotten to post Jim Bowen a birthday card. See if the Traverse has any returns for Daniel Kitson’s play at 10am (they probably won’t). Ring Joe Pasquale and wish him a happy birthday. To the GRV for ‘Best of the Five Pound Fringe’ at 12.20. If you bump unto Sylvester McCoy, wish him a happy birthday too. Try out ‘Papa’s Got a Brand New Wigbag’ at 4.55 at Canon’s Gait. It’s free, and you’ll wonder why yesterday you spent £12.50 on something immeasurably worse. Back to the GRV for my show, ‘One Man and
You are clutching in your feverish fingers a ticket to ‘Shut Up and Sing’. What to wear? Get thee to the arse end of Nicolson Street and trawl through every thrift shop bargain box until you have enough lurid leggings, orphaned leg warmers and circa 1984 bright plastic brooches of elephants holding trunks. Then, hit Superdrug (Boots if you’re posh) for 16 litres of hair spray. Bedeck yourself in rainbow-lycra glory, tease those follicles, run to Cowgate, talk loudly in the bar about how Beyoncé’s video for ‘Why Don’t You Love me’ is an ironic retro deconstruction of female identity (plus she’s, like, HOT). Polish off a plastic cup of Californian plonk, then STRUT – walking will NOT DO – STRUT into the venue for a blistering hour of Quinn. Sorted.
Geraldine Quinn: Shut Up and Sing, Underbelly, 5 – 29 Aug (not 18), 10.20pm (11.20pm), £6.50 - £10.50, fpp 67.
P17 Lee Breuer on his EIF show ‘The Gospel At Colonus’, plus some hip hop Hamlet
EVENTS
P18-20 Guest Editor Pip Utton chats to Camille and Something Relevant, plus another playlist
PHOTO PAGE
P15-16 Roland Smith of Theatre Delicatessen discusses his show ‘Pedal Pusher’, plus dance and physical theatre reviews
MUSIC
P21 Laura Mugridge recalls her favourite van-side events from the Pleasance Courtyard this week
P23 The ThreeWeeks photo team have been snap happy all week – see the results
THREEWEEKS FESTIVAL COVERAGE THIS AUGUST
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Hendrick’s Gin, the frightfully delightful and mildly eccentric supporter of Edinburgh Tonight, is providing its lavish allocation of 50 complimentary tickets for the Fringe to the first 50 patrons to cross the box office threshold this Saturday, 21st August. Primark-like stampeeds for the Hendrick’s goody bags will not be tolerated. Box Office opens at 4.15pm at the Symposium Hall of the Royal College of Surgeons on Hill Place (behind Nicolson Street).
Guests already lined up for the Saturday show include: US TV star and comedienne Caroline Rhea, all-singing all-dancing entertainer Movin Melvin Brown and Cactus The Seduction’s Jonno Katz, plus more tbc.
Edinburgh Tonight at The Space at Symposium Hall, Royal College of Surgeons (Venue 53), Hill Place (behind Nicolson Street), 21st - 22nd and 25th - 28th Aug at 5pm, Tickets £9.
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