FRONTLINES NEWS, GOSSIP AND OPINION FROM ACROSS THE FESTIVALS
PIC OF THE WEEK JIM LAMBIE Part of the enormous, Scotland-wide GENERATION celebration of 25 years of the nation’s contemporary art, Glasgow- born Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition l oods the Fruitmarket Gallery with colour and energy – and it’s on right now for early festivalgoers, continuing through until October. ■ Fruitmarket Gallery, 225 2383, until 19 Oct, free.
DIARY FESTIVAL NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
• New venues alert: veteran Fringe theatre company Paines Plough unveils its new, portable, circular pop-up venue, The Roundabout, at Summerhall on Sat 2 Aug. Elsewhere, an 80-seater baby brother (or sister) – the art deco Kazador Tent – joins Assembly’s Spiegeltent Palazzo in George Square this festival. The Institut français erects its own circus tent in Randolph Crescent gardens for L’Enfant qui. . . and Northern Stage takes up new residence at King’s Hall, near Bristo Square and Summerhall.
Arts (of New Town Theatre, Hill Street Theatre and EICC) have four pro-independence essays in their Fringe brochure. ‘On our own we can forge our own destiny; as part of the UK we will continue to be a “northern territory”,’ writes artistic director Tomek Borkowy. • Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran headline a one-night-only European comedy show on 5 Aug. Comedy Sans Frontières brings together comics from Italy, France, Russia, Germany, Ireland and the UK – it’s at the Pleasance Grand at 11.50pm.
• It’s a bold promoter who nails their indyref colours to the mast, but the guys behind Universal
• A new Fringe app promises to take you into the unknown,
the rare and the unexpected. FrinGeo works out where you are and suggests three free Fringe shows close by and starting shortly. More at fringeo.com • The Fringe Sustainable Practice Award shortlist has just been announced, celebrating shows that encourage their audiences to think about sustainability, and which also take responsibility for their own environmental impacts. Shortlisted shows include A Walk at the Edge of the World, Be-dom and The Evolution Will Be Televised. Full details at list.co.uk/ sustainablefringe
12 THE LIST FESTIVAL 31 Jul–7 Aug 2014
GOOD WEEK FOR . . .
Summerhall, with the announcement that eight of the former vet school’s shows this year will be satellite streamed to 30 Odeon cinemas across the UK, from Brighton to Dundee, Leeds to (bizarrely) Edinburgh. The shows – including The Dispute, The Man Who Almost Killed Himself and Berkoff, the Inimitable – are all produced by digital arts specialists Hibrow.
BAD WEEK FOR . . .
Cancellations – but, well, it’s inevitable that some shows simply won’t make it. Among those pulling out on the Fringe are Shadowthief, The Thistle, The Burning Crowd and No Way Back, while over at the Book Festival, Simon Schama will no longer be appearing at his event originally scheduled for 25 Aug.
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