Friday, March 29, 2013

A very long festival season

So, I've survived another Fringesanity. And, given that the Fringe proper is now a week longer – taking the total time to just over four weeks (since it begins on a Friday and ends on a Sunday) – as well as the fact that that the weekend before the now-extended Fringe began I went to Melbourne, it's been quite a challenge.

Melbourne

Melbourne was great; we – Miriam and I – went primarily to see the stage production of War Horse (which, while not as great as I'd hoped, was stil worth seeing because of the awesome horse puppetry) and also saw Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Constellations, which was excellent. Then there was the cabaret: the Butterfly Club1 gala at the Town Hall (which Miriam got tickets to by helping crowdsource their move to a new location) and after party at the club itself one night and a Tom Dickins (one half of The Jane Austen Argument) solo show another.