 | | By Morgan and West | | |
Morgan & West: Midnight Motoring MadnessDate: 1 August 2010 Good afternoon one and all, I come to you live (if you can call a diary, be it penned or blogged, 'live') from the fair city of Edinburgh! Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen we've traveled all the way here, to Edinburgh, from distant Oxfordshire. How did we accomplish this modern miracle in less than a full week we hear you cry? Why horseless carriage of course!
We left Oxford at midnight last night, or this morning, well 00:00, Sunday, August 1st. We drove tirelessly through the night surviving on nothing but vegetable fried rice, foam shrimps, Chess (the musical not the game, most difficult when driving you understand) and a shared love of silly place names. We arrived at the foot of Arthur's Seat at 8:13 this morning suitably weary and in need of a good breakfast.
By 10:00 we had unpacked and we're heading off to the Gilded Balloon. We said hello to some familiar faces and made some new friends. Then off to the Royal Mile to meet Mr Ian Kendall, a fellow prestidigitator who spends his days entertaining the passers by with marvelous magic and quick-witted quips in a variety of languages.
Finally, with all our affairs in order, we retired to our accommodation where I am writing this now. We've just discovered that the lovely people at FringeReview.co.uk have decided to recommend us here and that we were mentioned in an article in The Observer about cabarets at the Fringe. Splendid.
Right, I'm off to bed. At 4pm. Piloting a horseless carriage for eight hours in the middle of the night is frankly exhausting. See you on the mile!
www.morganandwest.co.uk Morgan & West: Time Travelling Magicians, Gilded Balloon, 15:45, 4th - 29th Aug Twitter: @WestMagic @MorganMagic - by Morgan and West Any opinions expressed above do not represent the view of Whatsonstage.com nor any of its staff or contributors beyond the bylined author.
Related ContentBack to Edinburgh Homepage

|
|
Free Newsletter
|
Subscribe to our free newsletter
|
|
Featured Editor's Picks
 | Infographic: The economic impact of Arts & Culture in the UK When Culture Secretary Maria Miller called for the arts to make their "economic case" for subsidy, t... |
|  | Plays Cast: Harry Potter star in Southwark Moment, more for Branagh's Macbeth Bonnie Wright, best known for playing Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films, will make her stage d... |
|  | Brief Encounter with ... The Kite Runner's Ben Turner Ben Turner stars in the stage version of the bestselling book The Kite Runner, which runs at Liverpo... |
|  | Titus Andronicus (RSC)
   This latest production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, to borrow from football punditry, is a p... |
|  | Take Five: Britain's outdoor theatres With half-term approaching, the weather (hopefully) set to improve for the bank holiday weekend and ... |
|  | West End Live returns to Trafalgar Square next month West End Live, a weekend of free entertainment from top London shows, will return to Trafalgar Squar... |
|  | Robert Sean Leonard: 'I carry the ghost of Gregory Peck on my shoulders' Actor Robert Sean Leonard is currently playing Atticus Finch in Timothy Sheader's production of To K... |
|  | To Kill A Mockingbird
    Twenty years ago, a young Robert Sean Leonard appeared on the London stage with Alan Alda in... |
|  | X Factor musical titled I Can't Sing!, opens Palladium March 2014 The forthcoming X Factor musical will be called I Can't Sing! The Musical and will premiere at the L... |
|  | Donmar stages Nick Payne premiere, Wesker's Roots & Tom Hiddleston in Coriolanus The Donmar Warehouse has announced its new season, which features the premiere of Nick Payne's new p... |
|
|