Tuesday 31 August 2010

Ten Things About The Edinburgh Fringe 2010.

1: A capella groups get quite old quite quickly. The all-female groups are drippy. The all-male groups are smug. Get a piano.

2: There is no competition between a twenty-minute walk and a five quid cab ride.

3: The EUSA shop needs to order more Double Cheese and Onion Ginster sandwiches.

4: My flatmate is not after all the most obsessive kitchen-tidier alive.

5: Acrylic wigs smell if you sweat in them.

6: You're pretty much guaranteed a good show at the Trav, but innit pricey?

7: Not everyone who you think is a lesbian is a lesbian.

8: One of this year's Footlights is a way more committed flyerer than any of the others.

9: A wooden platform will bear a combined weight of around 25 stone for just over a month. After that it's touch and go.

10: Even at the advanced age of 37, it's still the best fun it's possible to have in August.

2 comments:

David said...

11. If you could take any one item for free from any of the stalls that line the Playfair Steps, you still couldn't find anything you'd want. Well, I wouldn't.

12. The Pleasance Dome has turned a no-hope student centre into something at least half-jolly to look at.

13. Check your venue (if a punter). The Pleasance may not mean the Pleasance; the Traverse may not be the Traverse.

14. Comedians equal decadence. Far too many of 'em now. Praise be to musicals, even the ones (ahem) I didn't get to see.

Glory von Hathor said...

I think you can keep number 7 for all year round.

Ergh, wig stink is vile. Hopefully there's no sharing of wigs. They get quite unsanitary if you don't give them a bath in a pair of tights from time to time. Handsoap and fabric conditioner will do.