We’re delighted to be able to let you know that for the first time ever this year you can book reservations for Forest Fringe shows online, in advance of the festival, thanks to the lovely people at Brown Paper Tickets. They’ve helped us to set up a special page where you can reserve a place [...]
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Forest Fringe 2010 Part 4: A Festival of Experiences
(STK International, image by Briony Campbell) The reason Forest Fringe is able to exist at all in Edinburgh is thanks to the people at the Forest Café. It was they who first invited Debbie to use their beautiful upstairs space to create a performance programme for Edinburgh and their involvement with Forest Fringe continues to [...]
Forest Fringe 2010 Part 3: A Festival of Adventures
(James Baker, 30 Days to Space) We like the unlikely places in which live performance can make a home for itself. The strange encounters you might discover in tiny rooms or on park benches, in grand cinemas and cramped video stores. We like the ways we find to look at the things around us in [...]
Forest Fringe 2010 Part 3: A Festival of Adventures
(James Baker, 30 Days to Space) We like the unlikely places in which live performance can make a home for itself. The strange encounters you might discover in tiny rooms or on park benches, in grand cinemas and cramped video stores. We like the ways we find to look at the things around us in [...]
Forest Fringe 2010 Part 2: A Festival of Ideas
(Search Party Growing Old With You. Image by Finlay Robertson) From 5pm every afternoon Forest Fringe will once again have the kind of brilliantly diverse line-up of works-in-progress and unusual performances that people have come to know over the last few years. We’re delighted with this year’s group of artists – some who we’ve worked [...]
Introducing Forest Fringe 2010: A Year of Reflection
Image from the Forest Fringe Microfestival, by James Baster So yes, we’re probably repeating ourselves, but it’s really been a breathless few years. The way that people have believed in and helped supported us has been incredible and propelled us to places that we never could have imagined being. Now we want to make sure [...]
Stepping over the threshold
Image via I’m on the train, gently gliding past the back gardens of red brick houses somewhere on the outskirts of Leeds. The sun is smudge of white light in a pale evening sky. Everything outside feels very far away, an exact 1:1 scale model of the world bathed in perfect sinking sunlight. My mistake, [...]
Vantastic
A lot of stuff arrives in Edinburgh in August. A lot. Thousands of performers, a rainforest of flyers, all the bad weather that Scotland has been holding back in reserve especially for this occasion. Mainly though it’s just vanload after vanload of kit. Enough garishly painted wood and plastic to make you weep. Poorly-built low [...]
