Thursday, 19 August 2010

Half-time at the Edinburgh Fringe.

It's the half way point of the Edinburgh Fringe 2010 - we're at the Amen Corner of comedy, theatre and music, ready for the back nine from now until next weekend. The Fringe finishes for 2010 on Monday, 30th August (although a lot of shows give their last performance on Saturday 28th).

So you have just ten days to get here by railway, take a plane, sailboat or any of the more unlikely forms of transport in that song. In other words, I don't care how you get here, just get here if you can.

Of the great things we've seen so far, most continue all next week. We were lucky enough to get tickets for the Gilded Balloon Press Show, at which the stand-out acts were Caroline Rhea (Former Auntie to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, now a great stand-up), and two musical comedy groups: the brilliant Dead Cat Bounce, and the er, awesome Axis of Awesome (take a look at their Four Chord Song on You Tube). Oh, and compere Jarred Christmas, also doing his own show at the Gilded.

Still on are Jason Byrne at the Assembly Hall (on The Mound - what an incredible venue, if you can get over the huge statue of John Knox glaring at you in the queue), Blood Brothers at C Too, and a huge number of current superstars including Tim Vine, John Bishop, Stephen K Amos and Kevin Bridges. And Diane loved Barbershopera - go figure.

Some of the shows we've seen have now finished their run - a brilliant Guys and Dolls by Forth Children's Theatre, The Rupert Pupkin Collective, and the incomparable Jason Manford.

Try to see something you'd never normally go to, as well as the bigger names. And if you're around, give us a buzz.

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