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Best of This Week's Edinburgh Blogs - 14 Aug 2009

Every week our theatregoer reporter Corinne Furness trawls the web to find some of the best gems from the myriad theatre-related blogs and condense them into one easy-to-read “Best of the Blogs” round-up each Friday. Between now and the end of August, guess what her focus will be?...

Having settled into life in Edinburgh, Whatsonstage.com’s Fringe bloggers began discovering the highs and lows of the festival. Michael Coveney experienced life from the other side of the footlights (almost) as a review he had written of a non-existent musical was improvised into a show with a lascivious director, a bit of Bob Fosse and, just for good measure, lots and lots of singing birds.

For This Mortal Coil’s Mark Matthews, however, this week meant a tech rehearsal and a tech rehearsal meant everything spontaneously failing to work. Meanwhile, for Tangram producer Hannah Spens-Black it was a taste of one of Edinburgh’s most renowned lows – the fall from opening euphoria to the reality of how many people are (or aren’t) in the audience.

On the Edinburgh Fringe Blog, Laura Corcoran gave an insight into one rather manic day at the Fringe – including a performance at the intriguingly named Spank!. Trestle Theatre, meanwhile, celebrated being top of the physical and dance theatre shows at the festival on Ed Twinge, and in the process challenged The Stage’s Mark Shenton, who’s giving this year’s Fringe a miss, on his view that audience reviews are making it impossible to distinguish "the wheat from the chaff".

Finally, it was a challenge of a very different nature for Anil Desai on the Gilded Balloon blog – namely that of how to get your keys back when you’ve managed to lock them inside your flat…

- by Corinne Furness - Theatregoer Reporter

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