Full line-up announced as Stephen K Amos takes over thespian chats in Princes Street Gardens
Amos picks up after Skinner drops out
By Thom Dibdin
Stephen K Amos is to take over hosting duties on Assembly Theatre’s daily Talk Show, following Frank Skinner’s withdrawal from the Spiegeltent show in Princes Street Gardens
Running through to Sunday 29 August, the hour long show features intimate conversations with such Edinburgh fringe luminaries as Steven Berkoff, most performed living playwright on the Fringe, who opens the series today, Wednesday 11 August with Linda Marlowe. Jason Byrne, takes over as a sub for Amos on 26 and 27 August.
A spokesperson for Assembly emphasised the Talk Show’s strong role in the venue’s 30th anniversary celebrations and its links with the various guests over those years: “Assembly’s aim has always been to support a programme of excellence and the remarkable talent of countless performers. … Continue reading Æ News – Amos to host Assembly’s Talk Show
All the Edinburgh Fringe iPhone apps reviewed
By Thom Dibdin
Updates came in thick and fast for the handful of iPhone apps which launched early for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe – with more venues promising apps for their own programmes, and even more updates in the pipeline. So I succumbed to Fringe madness, went off to see and review my shows, and rather left this on the back burner until a few more apps and their promised updates arrived.
They haven’t materialised, so here’s the story so far: … Continue reading App-tastic Edinburgh Fringe
New upgrades scheduled to be available by August 4
The current version does not include a search facility for venue listings
By Thom Dibdin
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that the free Fringe iPhone app released on Wednesday will receive substantial upgrades before the start of the Fringe.
As revealed exclusively in a review in the Annals of Edinburgh Stage, the app begins to make sense of the vast amount of data in the Fringe programme. However, the review expressed concerns that the app is still some way short of its true potential, particularly in its search facilities to access the 40,254 performances of 2,453 shows in 259 venues.
Gavin Dutch, managing director of Loc8 Solutions the Edinburgh-based company behind the app, told the Annals that many of the concerns would be addressed in an update released before the start of the Fringe.
Responding directly to the review, he said: “In fact we have already implemented solutions for quite a few of them, including venue search, and search of events at a specific venue. Finding your nearest show will also be much easier as in the update shows can be ordered by distance from your current location, or any other location you choose. … Continue reading Æ News – Edinburgh Fringe iPhone app to get upgrade
The Annals of Edinburgh Stage puts the Edinburgh Fringe iPhone App through its paces
The opening page of the new app
By Thom Dibdin
The Edinburgh Fringe has launched its much anticipated iPhone app, allowing iPhone users to access the wonders of the Fringe programme, with its 2453 shows in 259 venues, direct from their mobiles.
At first glance its looking good, with quick access from the opening panel to Shows, Venues and My Fringe. Further investigation finds a few surprising drawbacks, however. Not fatal ones, it must be said, and certainly things which should be fixed in the next release.
Sitting at home in Edinburgh, the first thing to find out was the closest production to my front door on a random date: the evening of Thursday 12 August let’s say.
I just happen to know that would be the theatre show Decky Does a Bronco by Grid Iron, in Traverse @ Scotland Yard, nightly at 7.30pm, running from 5 to 21 August.
Finding Decky Does a Bronco is easy: tap shows, tap search and type Decky. Show found. scroll through to the 12th and tap – up comes the listing. Tap the wee star on the bottom and it has been added to my favourites for easy access later. … Continue reading Æ News Review – Edinburgh Fringe launches programme on iPhone app
By Thom Dibdin
Morven Donald, aged 13, from Park Mains High School in Erskine has been announced as the winner of the Edinburgh Fringe’s annual schools competition to design the Fringe poster.
Morven’s design was judged the best from over two and half thousand entrants to the competition, which is now in its [...]
