For those of you playing along with the question at the end of my earlier post, the correct answer was in fact ten minutes. Yes, that’s all it took for my best laid plans to go awry! For the winner of this little competition, if you will make yourself known, as your prize for guessing correctly I will happily regale you with the full details of why I am staying up in
So anyway, once I’d done all I could do in the office, I went out, had something to eat, enjoyed the view and checked out some of the Edinburgh Festival; I picked a couple of shows at random, paid my money and sat down to watch.
The first show was a version of play, Abigail’s Party. While this production had some quite good characterisations, it also had some pretty clunky ones too and I sometimes felt I was watching a school production. Nevertheless it still entertained and had me chuckling in quite a few places.
After that, I was aiming for ‘Da Bitchy Code’ a Dublin stand-up comic’s take on The Da Vinci Code, but I got out of Abigail’s Party too late to get in, so I had a look at the adjacent venue and went to see Scotland 4 – Australia 1 instead. Very entertaining and with some really fun songs (particular favourites being ‘Love is for cunts’ and ‘Porn,’ a rewrite of the Natalie Imbruglia hit…) All performed in some very atmospheric vaulted cellars just off Cowgate.
I had forgotten how much there is to the Cowgate/Grassmarket area of Edinburgh – the last few times I’ve been, I’ve been pretty much entirely in the New Town, north of the castle. I must persuade Brett to come for a long weekend sometime and try out some of the pubs, eateries and venues…
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