This book shares nine years experience of producing shows at the Fringe for the price of two café lattes and a muffin, without the social awkwardness of having to sit with the author in a... More > coffee shop.
This guide is aimed at performers interested in producing their first shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Highlighting the author's personal experiences of half-full houses, flat mates gone bad, hostel horror stories, campsite calamities, and general comedy cock-ups.
Although the author's background is in producing and performing stand-up comedy, the principles of venue hire, promotion and publicity are the same for shows of other genres, such as sketch comedy, cabaret and theatre shows, as are the problems of managing large groups of performers.
The section on how to write shows details the author's approach to writing his shows as opposed to being a general how to write comedy guide.
Press quotes about the book so far:
"wonderfully illuminating and extremely funny" - Festival Previews< Less
This book shares nine years experience of producing shows at the Fringe for the price of two café lattes and a muffin, without the social awkwardness of having to sit with the author in a... More > coffee shop. This guide is aimed at performers interested in producing their first shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Highlighting the author's personal experiences of half-full houses, flat mates gone bad, hostel horror stories, campsite calamities, and general comedy cock-ups. Although the author's background is in producing and performing stand-up comedy, the principles of venue hire, promotion and publicity are the same for shows of other genres, such as sketch comedy, cabaret and theatre shows, as are the problems of managing large groups of performers. The section on how to write shows details the author's approach to writing his shows as opposed to being a general how to write comedy guide.
Press quotes about the book so far: "wonderfully illuminating and extremely funny" - Festival Previews< Less
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest of its type in the world. This guide will help you to get the most out of the time spent "on the Fringe". It will help you to decide when to go,... More > where to stay, what to see and, most importantly, how to survive the experience.
"Chock full of often ruthless practical advice to make the actual watching of Fringe shows a real pleasure" - Mervyn Stutter, Broadcaster and Fringe Veteran< Less
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest of its type in the world. This guide will help you to get the most out of the time spent "on the Fringe". It will help you to decide when to go,... More > where to stay, what to see and, most importantly, how to survive the experience.
"Chock full of often ruthless practical advice to make the actual watching of Fringe shows a real pleasure" - Mervyn Stutter, Broadcaster and Fringe Veteran< Less
Most people seem to quite enjoy Spank The Monkey’s arts and entertainment reviews. They particularly enjoy those weeks in August when he heads up to Edinburgh for the various Festivals, and... More > battles against tiredness and alcohol poisoning to tell the world what he thinks about the shows he’s seen there.
SPANK'S EDINBURGH DIARIES VOLUME ONE looks at the nine visits he made to Edinburgh between 1989 and 1999. He attempts to document it all as best he can, as he’s assaulted by Spanish female vampires, insulted by former presenters of The Word, and not given a car by Lee and Herring. If you possess a functioning sense of adventure, you may find it all rather amusing.< Less
Most people seem to quite enjoy Spank The Monkey’s arts and entertainment reviews. They particularly enjoy those weeks in August when he heads up to Edinburgh for the various Festivals, and... More > battles against tiredness and alcohol poisoning to tell the world what he thinks about the shows he’s seen there.
SPANK'S EDINBURGH DIARIES VOLUME ONE looks at the nine visits he made to Edinburgh between 1989 and 1999. He attempts to document it all as best he can, as he’s assaulted by Spanish female vampires, insulted by former presenters of The Word, and not given a car by Lee and Herring. If you possess a functioning sense of adventure, you may find it all rather amusing.< Less
"I have been reading about Edimburgo, this is a great country. I like it festival. It really excited all the carnival and the people too." That was a comment which someone called 'viagra... More > online' left on my website in May 2010. I'm SPANK THE MONKEY, and I write an arts and entertainment review website. My Pals and I go up to Edinburgh for the Festival most summers, and in SPANK'S EDINBURGH DIARIES VOLUME TWO you can read about the six visits we made during the Noughties. We saw shows held in venues as huge as the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and as small as the screen of a mobile phone. We watched films that lasted mere minutes, and a comedy show that lasted an entire day. And we saw Mervyn Stutter seven bloody times. You can read about it all in this very book. And if that's not good enough for you, you could possibly also use it to cure erectile dysfunction, if you rolled it up tightly enough.< Less
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