Fringe 2009
For the last couple of years I managed to write a paragraph for each Edinburgh Fringe show I saw; this time it’s just headlines for my diary. My younger brother Stephen was excellent in Earnestina and it was great to have him in town and out of his shell for the Festival. Favorites shows were The Doubtful Guest (ninety minute faithful theatrical adaption of an awkward twenty-eight line illustrated poem by Edward Gorey - clearly can’t work, did) and Power Plant (delightful sound and light exhibition at night in the Botanics.) And then in a more approximate descending order Richard Herring, Dave Gorman, Simon Amstell, Robin Ince, Barflies, Janeane Garofalo, Joey Page, The Moscow State Circus and RAW (which was the only one that tasted really bad; pretty good year all told.)
