Posted on August 7, 2010
Among the best summer arts and culture festivals is the the annual Edinburgh Festival. World class performers and would-be world class performers appear here each year.
This year, there will be some innovations:
Here’s an old favoite: ‘Clanadonia
Check out YouTube for many other performances.
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DarcsFalcon
August 7, 2010
Will you be going?
samhenry
August 7, 2010
Oh, do I wish I could. My money and physical strength to do these things has been expended for right now and new job starts next week. Thanks for the thought! But YouTube will carry all of the highlights. Your kids will love the sock puppets. I’ll get a link.
blackwatertown
August 9, 2010
I went to the Fringe Festival for the first time last year for work. It was great.
From the publicity in the UK, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s all about the Fringe, and that the Fringe is all about the stand-up comedy. The comedy highlight for me was Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert. Hilariously cross.
But I also saw two good and poignant plays –
Martin Lynch’s “The Chronicle of Long Kesh” (about the Maze/H-Blocks/Long Kesh prison in N. Ireland) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okDCvhK9fkY
and “Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea” (another way of saying Go to Hell, apparently) by Ahmed Masoud.
I had a surprise when I realised that I had occasionally chatted with one character in Go to Gaza, and know another and his wife. People you know as characters on stage? Very odd.
samhenry
August 9, 2010
So happy for some news of the festival from the inside. I loved the Lynch play.
Over the years, I have been amazed at what has come out of that hot house. I knew there had to be something beyond the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre! They are sometimes funny.