The venue is built. The staff is amazing. The partners are happy. The city is beautiful if rainy. The shows are excellent. The festival is in full swing.
I am a hands-on kind of girl. A tactile learner–I have to actually touch a thing and manipulate it in order to truly understand how it works. As such, I’m a believer in trial-by-fire. You want to learn to do a thing? Do it. Amazing feeling yesterday, opening the first box of printed season brochures [...]
Interesting experience this evening. Standing in the produce aisle at a supermarket which was new to me (and is new to the area), I had a distinct feeling of déjà vu. Took a while to put my finger on it. Something felt…English. Turns out, I was right. The market chain is owned by a British supermarket [...]
There are, truly, no people like show people. Some of us do in fact smile when we are low. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is always an intense experience for everyone involved, and my first year–2008–was certainly evidence of that truth. Something I must be grateful for, though, is the wealth of amazing show people with [...]
Inspired by the seriously old-school (like 600 years old) recipes at GodeCookery… If you want to make an Edinburgh Fringe venue: Take an empty room in a church or hotel or bar or whatever you can get and a crew of technicians who are willing to bend all the rules and can live on coffee [...]

