Marc and I are enjoying the fringe this year. Marc has enjoyed the festival the past few
years, but I have not been in Edinburgh during August yet to enjoy it. City centre is absolutely insane; trying to
walk down the royal mile is impossible there are just to many people.
Our first show was a gift from a man marc met on the train. When Marc had travelled down to Cornwall for his school
project with the seal sanctuary, he met the coordinator for a fringe show. He brought the most talented art students
(junior high to high school age) from Shanghai here to put on a show. I was blown away by how much they did;
before the show the students made arts and crafts (such as painting fans,
making cards) and gave them away to the audience. They provided food and drink. During the show they did everything; lots of
traditional dancing, song, played their own instruments, and even had visual
arts of painting and cutting figures out of paper on stage. And at the end of the night they gave away
all their props (like Chinese knots) as it was a one night show.
They were very talented, and gave so much for the audience
in the show. Fantastic :)
We have also been hopping around all the 'free' (meaning donation based) comedy shows. Really funny stuff. And tons of it. You can spend all day and night just going show to show. There are hundreds of veneus, don't know how they find all these show spaces just for August. They have been in cool places though; there were a few held in some of the vaults under the city.
The paid shows are also nice. Tickets are not to pricey, and at least they are not quite so crowded. We went and saw the show 'bookworm' which was about the ultimate book club put together by the actress who played lavender brown on harry potter. She is just as energetic in her show as she was in the movie.
The book festival starts next week, and there will be fringe shows all of august so we will be busy this month ^_^
