I ask again, how do critics do it, seeing shows, meeting people AND finding time to write. Anyway here is a catch up on a few shows I have seen over a weekend of Fringe Breakfasts, CGO Surgeries, and meets…
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Ed date 170818 – My 5th celebratory blog of EdFringe 2017
After 5 days away we are back for another week of theatregoing, along with 20 panels, workshops, surgeries and meets. May I recommend living in Portobello during the Festival – swimming pool, walks along the beach, 20 mins from town…
Ed Date 170806 – Finding your courage
A quieter day today at EdFringe as I move around the City which is packed with theatremakers looking for theatregoers, theatregoers dodging the showers between tourists, tourists looking at vistas, and vistas which make this one of the most beautiful…
Ed date 170805 – 6 shows, sexual self and no programmes….
This was planned as an 8 show day – which is eminently possible on the Fringe, but in the end I abandoned a cross city walk to one show, and saw 7. Here are thoughts and recommendations for 6…
Ed date 170803 – All alone in the spotlight – 5 solo shows
By chance of the calendar I’ve seen 5 solo shows back to back and they all offered me different insights into the art of this truly difficult theatrical form, and the nature of life, loss, theatre and love of self,…
Ed date 170802 – welcome to Edinburgh 2017
It is the morning after my first day at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and I already feel inspired, welcomed, excited by theatre, blind-dated, connected to old friends, pleased by the work of new friends, and slightly blurry from a few drinks…
Hull is full of surprises – thank you for your welcome
There is art in every moment of our lives if we just remember to open up and welcome it in. This morning my colleague Jacqui and I hopped in another Hull taxi and, as I have each journey, I asked…
Students tackling big issues with power and skill
So I left you, dear reader, with my first impressions of Iconoclasts, Say It Loud, and Hull Tory Taxi Drivers. So here is instalment two when I look at agoraphobia, trans/cis gender, alcoholism, pelicans, self harm, mosaics, and anorexia –…
Powerful voices from the National Student Drama Festival
I’m not sure whether I will manage a daily dispatch from my time at the National Student Drama Festival, but let’s start with a first one. I arrived at 9.25pm last night from a day in Belfast, and the administrator…
Belfast Ensemble preparing for Conor Mitchell premier
What an extraordinary privilege. I am sitting in the rehearsal room when two leading actors meet their orchestra for the very first time to prepare for the world premiere of a piece which has a sense of Edith Sitwell/William Walton’s Façade.…