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, January 31, 2012

Does your venue care about the same things as you?

THERE'S an interesting insight into how an Edinburgh Fringe venue manager may be thinking in this new post on the website of Eco-Congr...

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Fact by fact through the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society published its annual report a few days ago. It includes name-checks for all the various board member...

Friday, January 27, 2012

In bed with Alan Davies

HERE'S a rare picture of comedian Alan Davies (that's him on the left, hiding under the covers). It's from a student produc...

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Adam Riches gives Edinburgh Fringe advice

CHARACTER comic Adam Riches is performing at London's Soho Theatre next month. In February, he's doing a five-week run of Bring Me...

Saturday, January 21, 2012

It's a book!

A LOVELY surprise this morning in the post. The arrival of a new-born book. Coming into my world after an 18-month labour neither kicking ...

Friday, January 20, 2012

Fun, fun, funding

WHEN I was researching The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide , I expected to hear lots of horror stories about people going bankrupt and re-...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Late 'n' Live 'n' Lynn Ferguson

THERE'S an article of mine in the Scotsman today about a four-part BBC Scotland series about Late 'n' Live , the 25-year-old ...

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Mark Fisher: 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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