August 5

This afternoon we headed to watch the Festival Cavalcade, in the rain. We went to the start of the route and couldn't stand the crowds or see anything so went to the end of the route and got a plum spot! Lots of Community floats and also most of the acts from the Tattoo. Some great costumes, much flyer handing-out. Here is my favourite - this day was certainly not what it said on the banner!

This site has a whole heap of photos up from the event - can you spot us in any?
http://www.edinburghcavalcade.com/

Made up for no shows yesterday by seeing 3 shows today with Briony. All female, one woman shows and also all Australian. How very patriotic!

Kate McLennan - The Debutante Diaries, 5.15pm in the Gilded Balloon, Complimentary tickets.
http://www.edfringe.com/shows/detail.php?action=shows&id=4924

Earnest young Aussie performer, more of a theatre monologue than comedy (hard to pidgeonhole I suppose but the Brits like to do that). One woman show playing about 9 characters, all working towards the event of a Deb Ball. You could see she wrote the show as her performance was very passionate. I hope she did well here, I think Kate McClennan has a bright future in entertainment.


Jackie Loeb - Things I Can't Talk About , 7pm in the Gilded Balloon, Complimentary tickets.
http://www.edfringe.com/shows/detail.php?action=shows&id=4838

Traditional standup, ala Seinfeld "what's the deal with (insert topic/item here)?" Taboo topics, quite funny, slightly confronting. This woman swallows her pride for a laugh and gets them in spades.


Kitty Flanagan - A Festival of Me, 8.20pm in the Pleasance Dome, £6.80
http://www.edfringe.com/shows/detail.php?action=shows&id=4936

One of my personal favourites, grew up with Kitty appearing on many a sketch show including Full Frontal, Micallef Programme etc etc. A delight to watch, she now lives in London. Kitty opened her show with a short film she tried to enter into the Edinburgh Film Festival but it was rejected. So she made a standup show based loosely around it to be in the fringe instead. Fair enough and I'm glad she did. The short film was a better version of Bridget Jones Diary, if you ask me.