Deep Cut
Traverse
Jidariyya
Royal Lyceum
4.48 Psychosis
King’s Theatre
Eco-Friendly Jihad
Underbelly
Please Don’t Feed The Models
Underbelly
Scaramouche Jones
Assembly Rooms
Absolution
Assembly Rooms
Snap! That’s the sound of the credit crunch biting into attendance figures at Edinburgh. This year the Royal Mile teems with unloved luvvies urging discounted tickets on sceptical punters, and the city’s population of cadgers and tramps has fled. Usually they hover like spy planes and swoop on you demanding ‘a poond’. I was approached just once by a hapless ruin humbly tilting for 15 pence. This slump’s getting serious. Even the beggars are going out of business.
There are winners, of course. Previously an internet rumour, the free fringe has achieved lift-off this year with sponsorship and a glossy brochure.
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