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Threeweeks EDINBURGH ALL OUR LATEST REVIEWS INSIDE MARK WATSON IS HERE, DEFINITELY EDINBURGH FESTIVAL NEWS | REVIEWS | INTERVIEWS ThreeWeeks EDINBURGH ALL OUR LATEST REVIEWS INSIDE MARK WATSON IS HERE, DEFINITELY JONNY & THE BAPTISTS | NJAMBI MCGRATH | ROBERT SHAW | MARTHA MCBRIER | YETI’S | AND MUCH MORE WEEK ONE EDITION | THREEWEEKSEDINBURGH.COM YOUR GUIDE TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL For all the latest festival news as it breaks STARTSwww.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/news HERE… Speedy updates from the NEWS 03 Edinburgh Festival INTERVIEWS 04-12 Want to stay up to all that this year, well, it’s the BBC’s Editors’ Awards a couple of years Sam Michell, Channel 4’s Laura Riseam, back, which are very much anti-bland speed with all the ITV’s Saskia Schuster, The Scotsman’s we reckon. And they, by the way, will 04 04 Claire Smith, The Times’s Dominic return at the end of this year’s Festival goings on across the Maxwell, i’s Alice Jones, the Melbourne once again. We have no categories, no Edinburgh Festival? International Comedy Festival’s Susan precise remits, no particular agenda, Provan and comedy fans Niki Di Palma, other than celebrating shows and Look out for Jim Johnson and Sam Haslam. performers who we think are bloody regular speedy updates brilliant. Watch this space for more WILL FRANKEN’S ALTERNATIVE info. from the ThreeWeeks COMEDY AWARD TW:TALKS LIVE news team in the TW Talking of awards, character comedian 06 07 Will Franken has announced his Did we mention that this is our 21st Daily email. Sign up intention to launch his own award this year covering the Edinburgh Festival? for free at threeweeks year, the Defining The Norm Awards. In To celebrate we are staging five live a nod to the Fringe’s ‘defying the norm’ podcast recordings at theSpace edinburgh.com/signup. slogan this year, as well as contributing @ Symposium Hall next week, in to the customary debate about which we will interview five former Meanwhile, here’s a the over commercialisation of the ThreeWeeks cover stars: Mark Thomas, batch to get you going… comedy Fringe – and the role the big Susan Calman, Brendon Burns, Lucy awards have in that process – Franken Porter and (current cover star) Mark says his will be the one truly honest Watson. You can come along, listen awards programme, “celebrating the in and ask your own questions. 08 08 EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS safety, sameness and sycophancy so Book yourself some free tickets at thisweektalks.com A chunk of the comedy fraternity integral to the world’s largest and most amassed for Sunday lunch last expensive comedy festival”. Hmm, I weekend with the traditional Fringe wonder who he’ll pick to win. BOOK FESTIVAL INCOMING kick-off gathering organised by the Don’t forget that alongside all the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and THE THREEWEEKS EDITORS’ madness of the Fringe and the paid for, presumably, by its nice new AWARDS International Festival that is already sponsor Lastminute.com. And if you Talking of Will Franken and awards, occurring in this here festival city are wondering who, exactly, is judging we gave him one of our ThreeWeeks (and let’s not forget the Tattoo and Art Festival), the Edinburgh International 10 10 Book Festival kicks off next weekend. Says director Nick Barley of his programme this year: “You could say that the theme of this year’s festival is ‘Project No Fear’. It’s about encouraging and celebrating the sort of courageous, positive, creative thinking that we desperately need in order to make the world a better place for everyone, rather than just for a 12 All our interviewees privileged few”. answer even more questions online BOOK FESTIVAL TIPS Don’t forget Caro’s Three To See PLUS new interviews tips for the Book Festival: Leila go live everyday Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab, threeweeksedinburgh.com Aarathi Prasad and the ‘The Write To Read – Discussing Dyslexia’ event. Oh, and Malcolm Harvey (pictured) and Michael Keating discussing the renewed debate over the possibility of Scottish Independence. Even though that’s four tipped events. REVIEWS 13-16 THREES TO SEE Talking of the Threes To See – don’t forget we tip three shows to see everyday of the Festival in the VIEWS 17-18 TW Daily email. So get signed up. EDINBURGH LONDON TW ThreeWeeksEdinburgh.com TW ThisWeekLondon.com Your guide to Edinburgh’s Festival| since 1996 Your guide to culture in London | all year round WEEK ONE EDITION | THREEWEEKSEDINBURGH.COM | PAGE 03 TW INTERVIEWS THREEWEEKS: 21 YEARS COVERING THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL! Jonny & The Baptists: Robert Shaw: A bit of politics and ping pong Inside Rock solid new shows in that lot? intelligence Jonny: People always say to us, when ThreeWeeks awful things happen in the world, ‘Oh that must be great for you, you on the favourites Jonny & don’t even need to think of any new The Baptists return material’. The truth is, we’d much rather have no career and just be Fringe’s to the Fringe once playing table tennis, if we could swap again with a brand that for a fairer society. new play new show about CC: Do you think comedy can change the minds of an audience thriller inequality and the – or at least make an audience wealth gap. Which aware of certain issues? Inside Intelligence Paddy: Definitely. It’s not like one show is a company that might sound a little is going to suddenly turn someone’s views on their heads, but it’s important has been pushing serious, though this to keep talking about these things and musical comedy duo hope you’re part of a wider eco-system boundaries with new that encourages debate. And we theatre for over two have demonstrated definitely think that laughter makes people more receptive to engaging decades. This Fringe before that they can with different opinions. We tour the take on political shows across the UK and play to a lot it presents ‘Poena 5X1’, of people who maybe don’t agree with a new political thriller issues while keeping us, but are willing to listen so long as there are fun songs about swans. us well and truly from playwright CC: You’ve toured with Mark Abbie Spallen entertained. Which Photo by Thomas, another comedy Kat Gollock exploring “sex, is to say, there’ll be performer who has found interesting ways to bring politics politics and the power plenty of funny songs and the wealth gap, how we got here get paired up together via a ballot and where it’s taking our society. to fight injustice. Like in the 1980s, into his work. Although you are of love”. The play was while they subtly Jonny: Alongside presenting a load of with people like Alexei Sayle and the doing something quite different, research there’s a full, epic storyline alternative comedy movement. And if are you inspired by his output? commissioned by feed your brain with this year. It’s mostly set in the future, it weren’t for their tireless work, we’d And any other comedians with a facts and arguments. but it’s a true story. I betray Paddy; never have got rid of Thatcher after political agenda? Inside Intelligence’s betray him for money, fame and more several terms and a coup by her own Jonny: Mark is absolutely brilliant. He’s Robert Shaw, who We caught up with money. I even end up married to Jerry party. We feel we’ve achieved the same a huge inspiration and such a warm, both Jonny Donahoe Hall. Paddy has a terrible time, ends up strategy with David Cameron. kind, generous person. If we could also directs the show. homeless. be anything like him when we’re a bit We caught up with and Paddy Gervers to Paddy: I hate the future. The future’s CC: How do shows with a further along our careers, that would awful. narrative compare to more be amazing. There’s also a wealth of him to find out more. get the lowdown. conventional gigs? intelligent political comics from our CC: What motivated the show? Jonny: They’re really hard to promote. generation – Nish Kumar, Tiernan CC: Tell us about the premise of CC: Can we call you ‘Fringe Jonny: Inequality is like Everest for The shows now are part-theatre, Douieb, Josie Long, Ria Lina – who are us. It’s there and it’s massive, so we doing great things, and hopefully we ‘Poena 5X1’. veterans’ yet? You’ve done a lot part-comedy and part-music. So every thought we should explore it. We’ve can also inspire each other a bit. RS: It’s a dystopian, Scandi noir thriller of shows here – what’s draws journalist believes that we aren’t spent six months researching it. technically within their editorial remit. about sex, politics and the power of you back each time? We’ve spent a lot of time with the CC: You are back at Summerhall love. An idealistic government scientist Jonny: ‘Veteran’ sounds like too serious homelessness charity Crisis, we’ve CC: Do you come up with the again this year. It has an eclectic has developed a new drug – a ‘humane a word for a couple of guitarists from tried to learn a small amount of narrative and then write songs programme, but isn’t so known form of chemical punishment’ – as a Reading spending their summer economics, and we’ve played a huge solution to the global problem of prison to fit, or do you have some songs for its comedy. What attracts doing funny songs. This is our fifth amount of table tennis. Too much over-crowding.
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