Community: Fringe begins in Scottish capital
Posted on Sunday, August 08 @ 02:38:51 PDT by poster |
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Anonymous writes "The Edinburgh Fringe Festival begins on Sunday in the Scottish capital, with more than 1,700 shows taking place over three weeks.
The 58th festival features performances and shows from right across the arts spectrum, with more than a million tickets expected to be sold.
The famous and the newcomers will be providing entertainment at 236 venues.
These include some unusual sites in which to see shows, including an Indian restaurant and a sports car.
Bagpipers, singers, mime artists and street entertainers have already arrived in the city for the festival, which runs until 30 August.
On Sunday afternoon the traditional Edinburgh Festivals Cavalcade will weave its way through the city centre to mark the start.
The cavalcade, which has been running since 1976, will be led by motorcyclists on Harley Davidsons, followed by the entire cast of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Among this year's most publicised shows is Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diary Hell - a stage adaptation of the disgraced Tory peer's diary from his time in Belmarsh Prison.
Hollywood star Christian Slater has been forced to delay his British stage debut with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, at the Assembly Rooms.
The all-star stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's seminal novel had to be postponed after Slater caught chicken pox.
The Fringe will also feature a political satire called Guantanamo Baywatch.
Seasoned comic performers this year include Rob Brydon, Jenny Eclair, Paul Merton and the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright.
Brydon, the star of cult BBC 2 show Marion & Geoff, reprises his role in The Keith Barret Show as the hapless chauffeur turned relationship expert in a new live show at The Pleasance.
Cartwright brings her one-woman show - called My Life As A Ten-Year-Old Boy - about the trials of life as the voice of dysfunctional cartoon hero Bart, to the Assembly Rooms.
International drama is provided by acts from Zimbabwe, Norway, Montenegro, Ukraine and Kosovo.
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