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Traverse Theatre sweeps first week awards
24th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It's traditional for shows playing at the Traverse Theatre to clean up when the Scotsman and the Bank of Scotland start handing out their Festival awards. It's equally traditional for the rest of the Festival to complain that the Traverse cleans up so regularly and predictably. There hasn't been as much of that flavour of carping as usual this year; perhaps everyone's realised that complaining is less constructive than putting...
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The Ultimate Critics’ Pick of the Fringe – part 2
17th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Previously on The Ultimate Critics' Pick of the Fringe 2009:
The 13 most anticipated shows of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as collectively selected by five major newspapers and magazines, are: Barflies, Beachy Head, A British Subject, The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church, Morecambe, Palace of the End, Sea Wall, Suckerville and The World's Wife, with two votes each; Blondes, Orphans and Theatre for Breakfast, with three votes each; and the... -
The Ultimate Critics’ Pick of the Fringe 2009 – part 1
13th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Official Programme has been available for about a month now. All the influential voices in theatre criticism have had plenty of time to comb through it and produce lists of recommendations. By analysing all these lists together, I've discovered this year's Ultimate Critics' Pick of the Fringe.
The Times, the Guardian, the London Evening Standard, the Scotsman and The List (the Scottish equivalent of Time Out)...
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