Venue Previews
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 [...]
Venue Preview – Pleasance
O polvo amarelo grande often has its tentacles coiled round some exceptional talent, either across its nest of venues in the Courtyard or, looking appropriately like a swanky aquarium, in the newly refurbished Dome. Little treasures coming up! Comic magician Piff the Magic Dragon takes his Chihuahua on stage for levitating levity in Jurassic Bark, and [...]
Venue Preview – Just The Tonic
The cobbles of Cowgate thunder with the hooves of a comedy-hungry crowd during August. Some take the first and easiest exit, falling into the purple arches of the Underbelly, to be coddled by the friendly, famous, and frankly quite expensive acts. The others, those brave souls willing to risk it (for a biscuit) keep on [...]
Venue Preview – Free Fringe
The ‘true’ fringe experience of a dark room above a pub is becoming something of an alien concept, as venues with ‘proppah lights un’ shite’ host increasingly more of the Festival’s content. However, loads of great shows are available to festival goers for the cost of a few quid in a bucket (or a Scrooge-like [...]
Venue Preview – Zoo
Zoo, ever the champions of new writing and theatre, have a great programme from some very promising university and graduate companies from across the UK and beyond. Despite the poaching of good old Roxy by Assembly Festival, both Southside and the main Zoo have plenty for the discerning fringe goer to get stuck in to. [...]
Venue Preview – Northern Stage at St Stephens
Northern Stage’s sortie even further north than their Newcastle home is a welcome addition to this year’s festival. With a wide range of individuals and companies, such as Daniel Bye, Lucy Ellinson, Alexander Kelly, Chris Thorpe, and double Fringe First-winning company Rash Dash, the programme curated by Erica Whyman has a wide and topical feel [...]
Venue Preview – The Assembly Rooms
All hail the Assembly Rooms, the grand old dame of Edinburgh. Often referred to as ‘The National Theatre of The Fringe’, the beautiful old building on George Street returns to the fray after an eighteen month closure and a £9.3m renovation that promises to restore it to its 18th Century, Dickens-hosting glory days. The program [...]
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 – Underbelly
Traditionally the most eclectic of the big four venues, this year the good people of the big purple cow have stayed true to form and provided a varied – and thoroughly decent – program within their ever-so-slightly dank collection of spaces. For theatre buffs the big draw is Underbelly’s partnership with Old Vic New Voices [...]
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 [...]
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