Festival Agenda
JOSIE does Edinburgh
A week in, The List's columnist is having a fabulous Fringe, despite witnessing brutal scenes of child cruelty at the local swimming baths
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l'iii still operating at an uiiiiaturai level of exeiteinent about the Festival. The (gity is swarming With comedians. so everw/here you bump into three or four friends and get to run through the same questions lto which my answers are: ‘lt’s going okay, sort of. I hope'; 'lt's probably not good enough, though, but hopefully it'll get better'; 'Pleasance upstairs at i'. 15'; 'lfith and 20th? Oh no. that means we'll never get to see each other's shows".
I have started out With the best of intentions and ]()lil(}(I a gym in Edinburgh. Today l walked past the swunming pool and saw children hayigating a kind of floating assault course there. And by the Side of the pool there was a man With a powerful hose, whose ]()I) it was to try and hose the children off it. That was his actual iob. So when people ask him what he does at dinner parties or whatever. he would have to say: ‘I hose children off of a floating assault course'. and people would say ‘why?’ and he would say ‘to upset them. I can only assume. I don't make the rules. I don't enjoy it'.
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t:llj(),ii‘it; it it a is fl‘ .igt‘ ilw With over 300 free shows at the Fringe this year. 2-for-1 offers galore. discounts, and special offers to be had in this very publication, there is ample opportunity for the canny culture hound to get a skinful of entertainment for very little cash. dull it it )kiitt; Don't follow the crowds, take a around chance on something you might never have heard of before — you never know, it may well pay off.
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some arsehole in a polo shirt would come along With a hose. Luckily his weight advantage meant the water Just bruised him a bit and he ‘.‘./f,‘\'I§}f,‘lI himself in until the hoser got bored. about ten minutes later, He couldn't fit down the slide but l think he still ‘.‘.’(ii‘ a kind of Victory. I JOS/e Long is in Trying is Good, P/easance Courtyard. 5:36 ($63530, uriti/ 27Aug mot 73. 20/. 7. lop/ii. l9. :30—l.‘ 70. 50 (YB—£9).
We know competition is fierce for publicity during August but we were saddened to see one mean-spirited fly-posterer tearing down posters advertising a small amateur theatre group to stick up his own 200 different posters on top. There’s space enough for everyone guys. Give the little man a chance.
l- ringe gomg can be an expensive business. To help take the sting out of it. we have sniffed out some free stuff
TAKE 5
Absinthe
Party Bags
Last year Tangled Feet gave away tea bags. but they have smpassed themselves for 2007 and are giving away party bags full of condoms. army toys and ielly beans. The show explores the dark. dirty Side of life.
Game?, Gilded Balloon Tevlot. 668 1633, until 26 Aug (not 74). 4pm, $39—$10 (EV—£9).
Make this yOur first stop of the day and y0u can bag a free breakfast to set you up f0r a morning of show-gomg With the Cult characters from radio's Gotden Age. Oh, and there are puppets Breakfast With the Bickersons. Understairs@Apocolistic, 667
98m, C5—C6. 50 (Ell-£4.50).
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7740, anti/27 Aug (not 72, 79, 26).
Fruit
Keep yow Vitamin C levels up by grabbing a few pieces of free fruit from the baskets as the world famous b-b0y dance sensations Spin Odyssey combine $0ul. styte. spin and some inCredible athletics. Spin Odyssey. C. 260 7234, anti/27 Aug (not 73. 20). 4.40pm. £8.50—E7060 (55.50—69.50).
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If you're worn out after a long, hard day. settle in among the comfy pillo NS With a hot choc0late tor a dreamy trip through a Surreal selectIOn of yarns about beds and sleeping. Bedtime Stones. C soco. 0845 260 I234, 72, 74, 16, 78. 20. 22. 24 8 26 Aug, 9.20pm.
£7 50-£9. 50 (£6 50—5850).
EnJOy a free glass of absmthe during this hour of song, dance. and animation Whatever yOu do. tust don't see ths Show mere than once a da, or yOu could end up bbnd, mad. 0! Just incredibly drunk. The ADS/nlhe Momiogues. Zoo ScuthSide. 662 6892. until 27 Aug (not 21), 7.450m. 55-8 (£6).