The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide – Live!

Track the progress of author Mark Fisher as he prepares to stage a show in the world's biggest arts festival in 2012. Website here

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Ideas for the Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide - Live 1

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SHOULD the show be more than a discussion? Should I turn up in white face paint and Victorian costume in solidarity with a 100 student the...

Questions about marketing 1

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THE marketing for The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide could have a big overlap with the marketing for The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide...

Questions about money 1

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WHEN it comes to budgeting I have certain advantages. I live in Edinburgh, so don't have to worry about rent (or no more than I do f...

Questions about the venue 1

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THE closer I am to my target market the better. This means choosing the right venue. As a theatre critic, I spend a lot of time at the Tra...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Questions about the audience 1

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I WOULDN'T be the first person to do a chat show on the Fringe. There are a whole load of them varying from best-of-the-fest type roun...

The show

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I ALWAYS thought I should do an Edinburgh Fringe show called The One-Woman Black Watch On Ice .    Every time I see an oddball Fri...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

The story so far

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IN 2010, I was commissioned by Methuen to write a book about putting on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe . It would draw on the ...
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Follow me on Twitter @MarkFFisher, @WriteAboutTheat and @LimelightXTC I am a freelance journalist and critic specialising in theatre and the arts. Publications I write for include the Guardian and the Scotsman. I am the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide: how to make your show a success and How to Write About Theatre: A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers. I am also editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls: A Limelight Anthology and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book. From 2000-2003, I was the editor of The List magazine, Glasgow and Edinburgh's arts and events guide.
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