FRONTLINES NEWS, GOSSIP AND OPINION FROM ACROSS THE FESTIVALS
PIC OF THE WEEK
PHILL JUPITUS: SKETCH COMIC As well as his two Fringe comedy shows, Phill Jupitus is spending his mornings sketching on an iPad at the city’s art galleries – and this is his version of Gauguin’s Three Tahitians hanging in the Scottish National Gallery. Head along, say hello, grab an iPad and join in. ■ Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery & Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, until 22 Aug (not 9-10, 16-17), free. Also Phill Jupitus: Shirking Progress, The Stand V, 558 7272, until 24 Aug (not 11) 1.45pm, £10 (£9); Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in Juplicity, Jam House, 226 4380, until 23 Aug (not 11), 5pm, free.
DIARY FESTIVAL NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
• Mind your language at the Manna House Bakery on Easter Road as you might end up in an art work: i lmmaker and photographer Alice Finbow begins her ‘An attempt at exhausting a place (in Edinburgh)’, observations of the bakery’s daily goings- on that she’ll be translating into a paper roll to be displayed in the café. More at edinburghartfestival.com
• As if there weren’t enough festival reviews already, fringepig.co.uk offers searing critiques of… well, Fringe critics. Several of The List’s beloved reviewers come in for the fringepig treatment, and
your respected publication is summed up thus: ‘For all its faults, however, The List is remarkably sober, even- handed and unexcitable, having seen everything that has ever happened in Scotland since Culloden.’ It’s hilarious in parts, heavy-handed in others: we give the site, predictably, three stars. • A traditional Scottish bothy is being constructed in the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art as part of the nationwide GENERATION project and the Edinburgh Art Festival. The temporary structure will host a series of talks, performances
and screenings, and after its Edinburgh residency expires on 31 October it will relocate to Assynt in western Sutherland. • Underbelly has cancelled performances of The City by Israeli company Incubator Theatre following noisy protests outside the show’s opening night. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign objected to the production, which receives Israeli public funding. Pola Dance Company, from Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, has also cancelled its short run of performances at the Acoustic Music Centre following advice from the venue.
12 THE LIST FESTIVAL 7–14 Aug 2014
GOOD WEEK FOR . . .
Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh’s geological attraction, which becomes a Fringe venue for the i rst time with Sonic Vision, a spectacular 360-degree 3D animation show to music by Arcade Fire, Muse, Chemical Brothers and others, on most days at 7.30pm and 8.30pm.
BAD WEEK FOR . . .
Kevin the dog, who, despite months of training for Hayley Ellis’s Underbelly comedy show, won’t be appearing because Edinburgh Council has yet to process his Performing Animals licence – and appearing on stage without it could land Hayley a i ne of £10,000. Paws crossed that he’ll join her later in the run, though.