Following on from the international cultural phenomenon that is my Book Challenge Blog (445 hits and counting!) I have decided to set up another review blog. Alongside books, my other huge passion is theatre, and for me the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the absolute peak of the theatre year.
For three weeks each summer, theatre companies, stand-up comedians, dance troupes, orchestras, bands, mime artists, street performers, choirs, sketch groups and all manner of other oddities gather in the beautiful surroundings of Edinburgh to basically take over the place. Between two and three thousand different shows will take place in August, and give the atmosphere is something to behold.
I first went to the Fringe in 2004, performing in a production of Metamorphosis with my theatre group 3BUGS. The following year I returned as co-director of Five Kinds of Silence with the same group. Ever since then, the festival has been a permanent fixture in my calendar, and something that I rarely shut up about once I get onto the topic. I even wrote my dissertation on it.
For the past couple of years, I have written as many reviews as possible on the edfringe website, but as I have a blogger account now, I thought that I would make the most of it. I shall endeavor to review as many of the shows that I see in Edinburgh this year along with my merry band of friends. Instead of the marks out of ten scoring that I use in the aforementioned book blog, I shall try and rate them out of five stars, as is the custom in Edinburgh.
The Festival doesn't begin until August, and I shall not be going up for a few days even then, so don't expect plenty of updates here until I am Ed-bound, although I will be trying out an app on my iTouch to see if I can blog here. If I can't then all of this may be quite academic!
(The picture here is from the first page of Google Images Search for 'The Edinburgh Challenge 2010'. It appears to be Edinburgh Castle as viewed from the side of the Tardis)
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