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EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Three

EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Three

The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects

In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. EdFringe day three.

Aug 4 2024 | By | Reply More
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Two

EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Two

The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects

In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here’s Day Two.

Aug 3 2024 | By | Reply More
Changing places

Changing places

Lubna Kerr’s little listicle on moving into the arts at a later age

Lubna Kerr’s latest play, Chatterbox, arrives at the Edinburgh Fringe hot from a successful preview mini-season at the Morecambe Fringe. It follows Tickbox and Tickbox 2, hits at previous Fringes.

Aug 2 2024 | By | Reply More
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day One

EdFringe lockdown memories: Day One

The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects

In the horrifyingly fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here’s Day One.

Aug 2 2024 | By | Reply More
#Nothing to Review Here

#Nothing to Review Here

A look back at Edfringe’s Covid years

Four years ago, on Friday 7 August 2020, on what should have been the first day of the Edinburgh Fringe, I was on the Royal Mile with my brother, the photographer Peter Dibdin.

Aug 2 2024 | By | Reply More
New campaign to save Summerhall complex

New campaign to save Summerhall complex

Campaign to retain city-centre home for artists and businesses

A new group, #MadeinSummerhall, has been set up by 110 artists and businesses at under-threat Summerhall, to campaign to retain their city-centre homes, which make up 60% of of the Summerhall complex.

Aug 1 2024 | By | Reply More
Summerhall reprieved as a Fringe venue

Summerhall reprieved as a Fringe venue

Future of whole complex not clear as sale date set.

Summerhall appears to have been reprieved as a Fringe venue for at least three years, as responsibility for running the venue element of the Summerhall complex is taken over by a new charity ahead of its sale going to a closing date of September 18, 2024.

Aug 1 2024 | By | Reply More
EdFringe 2024: Music, cabaret & dance

EdFringe 2024: Music, cabaret & dance

Edinburgh-made music, cabaret & dance at #EdFringe 2024

Beside all the theatre and musicals on offer here are 21 shows with a theatrical bent in the music, cabaret, and dance sections of the EdFringe portal.

Jul 30 2024 | By | Reply More
EdFringe 2024: Musicals & opera

EdFringe 2024: Musicals & opera

Edinburgh-made musical theatre & opera at #EdFringe 2024

Edinburgh companies are well represented in the Musicals section of the fringe programme, with 25 different productions. Thanks largely to the eight musicals being staged by Captivate.

Jul 30 2024 | By | Reply More
EdFringe 2024: Theatre for children & young people

EdFringe 2024: Theatre for children & young people

Edinburgh-made theatre for children & young people at #EdFringe 2024

There is a strong showing of theatre for children this year, with 18 shows in the listing, aimed at audiences ranging from babes in arms to early teens.

Jul 30 2024 | By | Reply More