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Gallery
A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2
Last month's Gallery was on the subject of the annual Edinburgh festival, and this one is more of the same. But different.
Venues
66,000 square foot Teviot Row House or a 10 foot caravan (that's "trailer" on the other side of the pond) – take your pick.
Shows
I will say that a lot of the shows from past years were not particularly well documented on Commons. Hopefully, I can document them before publication.
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Johnny MacAulay in The Man of 1000 Farces (2016) -
Goblin Market (2005) -
Promotional picture for Paul Black (2022) -
Just Out of Reach (2008) -
Soap (2010)
Discuss this story
That this is unfinished is probably obvious. I had asked for this to be held back, but.. it wasn't. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 04:47, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
He was out one night during the Festival with some friends; they'd had to go to a pub in Leith to escape the crowds at their usual watering hole. He wanted this antagonist culture to be an outside-context enemy, "someone they can't understand or figure out". One of the friends suggested, "Why not the Festival"? He noted how that makes Edinburgh in August the sort of place where the unusual is mundane, where encountering bagpiping elephants, say, is not big deal.
So, that's exactly what he did: The aliens in the story are, basically, the Festival with technology so advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic, and the novel is about how their arrival terminally disrupts this rigidly organized society far beyond anything the resistance could have ever done. Daniel Case (talk) 05:32, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]