The
Fringe spun out of the Edinburgh Festival many years ago and now is by far the largest of the festival's many components--mostly performance stuff, from dance and music and theater and comedy to street acts of every imaginable description. Many of London's comedy clubs simply close in August since the talent's up here.The prestigious Edinburgh International Book Festival has spun off two separate
Fringe book festivals. All this goes on throughout the month of August, and pretty much every unoccupied square foot of space indoors and out in the old city becomes a venue for most of the waking hours. When we were in Edinburgh in 2009, we attended mostly the more "respectable"
Festival events--symphony, opera, and such. This year, the things that appealed were mostly
Fringe things.
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| Somewhere on Royal Mile, energy, electricity, everywhere |
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OK, I am not sure which Muse was being appealed to here:
this guy is doing rope tricks; maybe telling jokes... |
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| Miscellaneous adolescent writhing |
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| New interpretation of The Scarlet Letter |
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| Show card for this 200 square foot venue |
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| David Hume takes off his clothes to get into the spirit of things |
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The long arm of the Law keeps eternal
vigilance |
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Look closely: in there at the left there's a guy doing balloon
tricks; seriously |
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| And a guy on a unicycle breathing fire |
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| Not every show draws a crowd |
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| Most of it is quite good, however |
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| Quite, quite good |
1 comment:
Looks like everyone was having a great time.
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