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Festival
It’s all over. The Festival was good to us this year and we’re now considering acts for the Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
Yes it was a cracking Fringe ‘o9 here at the Bongo with a critic-charming and crowd-pleasing sell-out run from self-depricating funnyman Simon Amstell topping the bill.
There were more japes courtesy of the Amused Moose Laugh-Off Final. Keep your eyes peeled for this year’s winner Naz Osmanoglu and his assured rise to stardom; former winners have included the likes of Jimmy Carr, Mark Watson, Alex Zane, Rhod Gilbert and our new btop chum himself, Simon Amstell.
Lois of the Lane’s Super Situation and Brianne Berkson’s A Longhardt Look at Love - with Chad Longhardt provided the performance laughs, and Muckle Roe Productions an inspired blindfolded take on theatre in Don Quixote – Theatre of the Blind.
As ever the musical offerings went down a storm with A Compas Flamenco raising pulses, Mazaika in Cabaret dropping jaws and Dave Thomas’ Another Place stealing hearts.
The ever-popular Comedy Club 4 Kids had the over-sixes rolling in the aisles (with child-friendly sets from Rich Hall, Adam Hills, Jason Byrne, David O’Doherty, Brendan Burns and Pat Monahan amongst others) while Mazaika returned for an enchanting take on Peter and the Wolf and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale was retold by Pericles Theatre Company.
And once again The Bongo Club Cabaret, this year under the leadership of Rhymes With Purple Productions, ticked all the boxes and pushed all the right buttons with it’s expansive and alluring cross section of Fringe delights.
Add to that a full roster of cult clubs running till 5am seven nights a week, plus outsider artist Catriona Ruth Paterson’s outsider art exhibition in the café, and it’s a wonder we survived to tell the tale.
Celebrity spotting was also up on last year with unscripted cameos from Paul Zenon, Jack Whitehall, Christopher Biggins, Reece Shearsmith, James Corden, James Lance, Phil Kay…
If you made it along, thanks a million, you really made it. See you for more at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
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We are now accept applications for the Edinburgh Festival 2010. For further details please email the venue manager. To see the contents of last year’s festival programme
please click this link
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