{"id":366875,"date":"2025-08-23T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366875\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:24:11","slug":"the-film-authority-goes-to-the-edinburgh-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366875\/","title":{"rendered":"The Film-Authority Goes to the Edinburgh Festival(s)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I appeared to be slacking off in my productivity in the last few weeks, I\u2019ve been keeping myself busy at the Edinburgh festivals; I\u2019ve been covering these since 1989, and August wouldn\u2019t feel like a August if I wasn\u2019t run off my feet with coverying musicals, theatre, film and comedy. I\u2019m covering these for cultural authority The List<\/a>, still THE big name in Festival coverage; I used to read this paper magazine as a teenager, and it still looks better-than-good on paper and on digital today.<\/p>\n

So a quick run-down; before the festival started, I tracked down comic\/human rights lawyer Sikisa for an interview about her show at the Monkey Barrel;<\/a> she\u2019s got a USP and knows how to use it to good effect. I\u2019ll get round to The Edinburgh International Film Festival in good time, but one key pick was Dead Lover, a oddly theatrical, Gothic-comedy<\/a> take on Frankenstein by Grace Glowicki. It\u2019s a low-budget, arthouse affair, but it\u2019s certainly promising as an idiosyncratic calling card for the writer\/director.<\/p>\n

The fringe proper is always an insane stramash of entertainment; I created my own avatar and enjoyed playing Robo Bingo for Kids with Foxtrot Studios<\/a>, dug the tunes at an ambitious musical about death entitled Falling in Love with Mr Dellamort<\/a> and savoured a trip back to the emo-kid 90\u2019s with Laurie Stevens\u2019 comedy David\u2019s One-Man Band. <\/a><\/p>\n

Probably the most relevant show for blog readers was a one-man tribute to the John Wick films, a good laugh when that man is Woody Fu (yes, that somehow is his real name). Getting the audience to stand and dance in slow motion while a fight scene unfolded is the interactive tribute to John Wick we didn\u2019t know we needed<\/a>; it\u2019s the kind of show that works best with the carnival, anything-goes atmosphere of the Edinburgh Fringe, and Fu even gave me an embossed pencil as a souvenir. Thanks to all the PR\u2019s who made all this work, the essential-eaterie Piemaker for vital supplies<\/a>, and to my long-suffering editor and staff at The List for publishing these words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If I appeared to be slacking off in my productivity in the last few weeks, I\u2019ve been keeping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,107755,1102,114362,95633,128451,3063,128452,128453,4884,10438,128454,43115,6082,128455,712,128456,128457,128458,2764,16,15,128459],"class_list":{"0":"post-366875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dead-lover","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-festival-2025","12":"tag-eiff","13":"tag-falling-for-mr-dellamort","14":"tag-film","15":"tag-foxtrot-studios","16":"tag-grace-glowicki","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-john-wick","19":"tag-laurie-stevens","20":"tag-musical","21":"tag-reviews","22":"tag-robo-bingo-for-kids","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-sikisa","25":"tag-the-list","26":"tag-the-list-magazine","27":"tag-theatre","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-woody-fu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115077360058182424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}