Thomas Martin
Girls and Boys: what to do on your Day Off.
You’ve made it. Somehow. The days have been long and unforgiving; the nights a kaleidoscope of booze and chips. You might have staved off the hangovers so far through a strict diet of haggis suppers, shit croissants and prescription meds, but your day off has arrived. Relax. Go back to sleep. Or don’t! Edinburgh is [...]
Venue Preview – Bedlam
Things are different for the team at Bedlam, the Fringe’s only student-run theatre – and it’s nothing to do with the green scaffolding they affectionately refer to as the ‘scarf.’ ‘We’re seeing a certain trend: in years past we’ve focused a lot on new writing and plays,’ says 2012′s venue manager Adam Alton. He’s not [...]
Endeavours
Hello. Tom here. I’m the editor, I suppose. In chief. As Fringebiscuit bends its bow this year to the task of training ten young writers (you hadn’t heard?), I find my position regarding audiences and performers similarly shifting. I no longer place emphasis on attracting more followers or covering more shows; I raise little more than [...]
Venue Preview – C Venues
While not boasting the heavily sponsored pedigrees or carpet-bombing PR teams of other Fringe venues, C will always remain special to Fringebiscuit. Many of today’s best young companies took their first swings at Fringe stardom in the black curtained rooms of C, and that promise still lingers. Step into C main, for example, and you [...]
Venue Preview – Gilded Balloon
August rolls around again, and like Sisyphus we shoulder our biscuity boulder up Arthur’s Seat – looking out, we can only imagine what delights and dreads await us in the fair city of Tennants, Grayfriar’s Bobby, and Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond. In the birthplace of Harry Potter, where Ben Jonson famously called Shakespeare ‘a bit [...]
Gut Picks and First Impressions
The Fringe Guide. What a beast. It’s so big we can barely make heads or tails of it. We’ve been reading it upside-down and back to front. It’s practically in Aramaic and, to put it bluntly, our tomb raiding days are pretty far behind us. So in our place we asked our Biscuiteers to jump [...]
Comedy? Us?
You heard right, folks. The very first Young Writers Training Scheme needs the Mother of all fundraising nights, so on the 6th of July we’ll be hosting some of our favourite alternative comedy acts at the ultra-plush Leicester Square Theatre. The current line-up includes: ALEXIS DUBUS/MARCEL LUCONT “Hilarious” – The Guardian “Consistently brilliant … An [...]
Young Writers Training Scheme
So you might have noticed some changes around here…well, they’re not only skin/CSS-deep! Alongside our brand-new website we’ve also restructured the way we run as an organisation, and so we present the inaugural Fringebiscuit Young Writers Training Scheme! Every year, we are going to take ten of the most exceptional young arts writers that the [...]
Biscuiteers, Assemble!
We’ve got them! Bleeding and broken, we have clawed our way out of a veritable mountain of (mostly pretty excellent) applications. But it was worth it: our intrepid call-out has brought together a team of exceptional writers, each with their own unique set of skills, and we’re extremely excited to welcome them onto the first [...]
British Council Showcase
Be warned: this is going to be massive. The Traverse, befittingly for a top-drawer new writing theatre, presents a revival of last year’s awards-sweeping sex-traffic exposé Roadkill, and also three new plays: Futureproof, by Lynda Radley; The Monster in the Hall, by David Grieg (performed by the Citizens Theatre), and I, Malvolio, Tim ‘The Author’ [...]
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