THE FESTIVAL INSIDER Who’s getting up to what
I Despite staying up half the night drinking peppermint schnapps served from ice
had halted the Traverse Theatre production. a
HIGH FIVE
LOU DALGLEISH, whose They Call I~Ier Natasha is at the Gilded
sculptures by naughty nurses spokeSperson Banoon at The List Festival-time opening assured us that (6.30pm), picks
party on Thursday 2 August. the actor in her five favourite
InSider arose the following question was EMS Costello tunes.
morning to gather gossip. First merely
off. phone calls to the Festival 'indisposed‘. So $gnggegt1gggtgpfnggécheein the offices to check on staff that s alright song '8 brilliant. He gets away with hangovers. The Winner here is the then. being utterly menacing within 8
Edinburgh International Book Festival. Its director. Catherine Lockerbie. complained that none of her staff showed up for work. Very good. And if you were listening to Beat 106 radio on the — ouch — early morning of Friday 3 August. you will have heard the station's DJs nursing their hangovers on air. Excellent. But the top piece of gossip of the party award goes to the couple who were overheard — and presumably seen — having sex on the back seat of the 3am last bus home from the party.
I Talking of excessive drink. we're happy to report that the cancellation of Gagarin Way for two performances last weekend had nothing to do with the arrest
of a young man after a drunken Stateside directly after the Festival. them - Toby Jones' Missrng Reel STEVEN affray or his being left in the police and that show by two people FROELICH cells to sober up. When we I Around this time last year. a from The Archers. And there's (Weekend '0
enquired after the health of the actor whose mysterious absence
Cool visiting VIP
I In case you missed the Angelo Badalamenti feature in the last issue of The List. here's a reminder that a Reel Life masterclass by David Lynch's favourite soundtrack composer is a late addition to the Film Festival programme.
I Boom Chicago's Seth Meyers. who's starring in Pickups And Hiccups With Ben/amin And Meyers and /ronic Yanks as well as directing Europe: We've Created A Monster/f. has been invited to join the cast of American television‘s alternative comedy institution. Saturday Night Live. The hard-working fella will be winging his way
fellow journo moaned to Insider: ‘lnsider. the Film Festival doesn't
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have enough star guests.‘ Oh.“ I replied. 'did you catch Damon Albarn talking about his soundtrack for 101 Reykjavik?‘ 'No. I didn't.' ‘And the year before. did yOu pass John Cusack checking out Edinburgh's coolest record shops?‘ ‘No.' So. ignorant JOLirno take note: this year's most exoting, yet to be confirmed th0ugh likely visiting VIP is cool cool Steve Buscemi. who stars in what could be the film of the Festival. Ghost World.
I Your starter for ten: What is a foley artist? No? Well, this year two Fringe plays make use of
a third show even called Foley (by the Corn Exchange at the Traverse). Answers on a postcard and the winner receives a free List pass to all Festival shows. Not really. Foley artists are the people who do the sound effects on the radio and backstage at the theaUe.
I They call Edinburgh-based Ricardo Pinto a sCience fiction novelist. But Pinto is totally obsesswe about his research and goes to extreme lengths to ensure that the fantasy worlds he created on the page are believable. For example. Pinto employs geologists and mathematicians to calculate the exact lengths and directions of
. . . shadows. He's also been known to use Edinburgh Zoo for the colour of a flamingo‘s tongue. He's even created his own language. Ouya. and consulted experts to help deVise a plaUSible monsoon. In the context, it might be more accurate to refer to Pinto as a science fact writer.
Various shows on the Edinburgh Fringe
great tune. I Want You is just genius.
2 Kid About It A brilliant song. brilliantly constructed. I particularly liked the fact that in the chorus he drops an octave. It's very grave. I wish I‘d done that. very hard to sing.
3 Shipbuilding This song just sums what was going on at the time. it‘s a brilliant way of saying. ‘Look at the Falklands War. look at Thatcher‘. A deep political comment.
4 Let Him Dangle In this song he encapsulates everything I would like to say to people who believe in the death penalty.
5 Alison A classic. a pop song that can be sung as a standard or a soul tune. Just a classic clever song.
Rio, Pleasance, 4.30pm and M Woulda Been Nice, Pleasance, 4.30pm) picks five playwrights.
1 Tennessee Williams My stuff is a cross between Williams. O'Neill, Orton and Pinter. Take their first letters and it spells WOOP! Which will hopefully be the audience reaction to my plays. I especially like Tennessee Williams' characters.
2 Eugene O’Neill My director Laurence Boswell suggested reading Long Day's Journey Into Night after I'd written Weekend In Rio. My God. the morphine- addicted mother in the attic is like one of my characters! Osmosis.
3 Joe Orton I love What The Butler Saw. I saw a production with Sheila Gish, there were so many laughs it was hard to hear the lines.
4 Harold Pinter People tell me I should ‘get' Harold Pinter. but l don't. I must be influenced by him.
5 Nobody There's no playwright Number Five. Kill the competition.
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Far Too Happy by Ramsay Hardwood Stabbington Cambridge The Marauez Pick Ups And Love, mnocence Foot/ights Brothers Hiccups by And The word
It was very funny It was really Boom Chicago Cock
and Surreal. There gLiite good — my It was a QUICk- Good. no ms were a series of friend couldn't fire show. The; Stand up. it would sketches of which stop laughing. had excellent have been better
if there hadn't been a nutter in the audience.
Their sketches were very Witty and Subtle.
lfTTDTO‘JlSaTlOn Skills.
Mr Death was the star in my opinion.
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