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THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL SORTED | WEEK ONE ISSUE | WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK ThreeWeeks EDINBURGH The Awesome Fringe: Meet the musical Axis JESSICA SHERR FIGS IN WIGS PLUS Marcel Lucont | Yacine Belhousse | Tamsin Clarke | The Nualas | Celia Pacquola | Jessica Sherr | Paul Nathan KlangHaus | Rob Winlow | David Bolger | David Lee Morgan | Maddy Carrick | plus Festival news and lots of reviews START POINT GET THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWSFor AND all INTERVIEWS the latest festival IN YOUR news INBOX as it breaks DAILY sign up for the free ThreeWeeks Daily email nowwww.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/news at ThreeWeeks.co.uk/signup Renkow takes first comedy gong of the Fringe Contents We may only be a few All three will now appear at an ThreeWeeks 2014 wk1 Amused Moose Comedy Awards days into the Festival, but Showcase later this year at London’s START POINT we have a Fringe winner Soho Theatre, alongside the winner 04 for you already. The of the other Amused Moose comedy Caro writes… competition that reaches its climax 04 finals of Amused Moose’s during the Festival, for slightly more Letter & Poem annual new talent established new talent. The winner of that one will be INTERVIEWS competition took place at announced on 17 Aug, meanwhile theSpace @ Symposium Renkow, who follows the likes of Sarah Marcel & Yacine Q&A 06 Hall on Sunday, with Tim Millican and Jack Whitehall in winning the Amused Moose newbies prize, Tamsin Clarke Q&A 06 Renkow declared the takes away a nice £1500 and his shiny Figs In Wigs Q&A 06 overall winner. moose trophy. The other finalists this year were Kiri Pritchard McLean, Penella Mellor, Rob COMEDY Auton and Brennan Reece. Holly Walsh hosted the show, which 08 went ahead despite two of the finalists Axis Of Awesome Q&A being temporarily trapped in a lift just Amused Moose Comedy Awards Gangshow Comedy Reviews 08 before it was due to start. Those two is on at theSpace @ Symposium Hall on 19 aspiring comics, Archie Maddocks and Aug. The Nualas Column 10 Don Tran, nevertheless performed well Amused Moose Comedy’s Laughter Awards Celia Pacquola Q&A 11 before a packed audience and industry Final is on at theSpace @ Symposium Hall panel, coming second and third in the on 17 Aug. BEASTS Question 11 final. More at www.amusedmoose.com THEATRE “Let’s talk” about the Edinburgh Book Festival Jessica Sherr Q&A 12 Theatre Reviews 13 this year as the big independence vote edition of his latest work ‘Colorless looms, though so will the two world Tsukuru Tazaki’. Also on hand will wars, the Commonwealth, economic be George R R Martin, the American migration, society, identity, culture and novelist best known for the ‘A Song CABARET media. “All aspects of communication” Of Ice And Fire’ series, aka the books Paul Nathan Column 16 in fact. behind TV phenomenon ‘A Game Of Says Barley: “The Book Festival Thrones’. provides a crucial forum for dialogue, Plenty of familiar faces will also be MUSIC where we can listen to and learn from returning to Charlotte Square Gardens one another, particularly in this year for another Book Festival appearance KlangHaus Q&A 17 of momentous events in Scotland. this August, including Will Self, Richard Ladies and gentlemen, Our thought-provoking conversations Dawkins, Simon Armitage, Carol favourite and occasional ThreeWeeks with both authors and audiences will Ann Duffy and Julia Donaldson, the poem-writer Luke Wright, which will MUSICALS let’s talk. Though only permeate through Charlotte Square latter as part of the always top form celebrate the British spoken word Rob Winlow Q&A 18 when it’s time for Gardens as we welcome world- children’s programme that takes place scene with appearances from the likes renowned writers and thinkers from during Edinburgh’s literary fest. of Elvis McGonagall, Hollie McNish questions from the floor, many countries and cultures”. Meanwhile, those bored of being and Hannah Silva, and Phill Jupitus in we don’t want any unruly Amongst those authors being “unbored” at the Fringe, and who feel Porky The Poet mode. PHYSICAL disruptions during the welcomed will be Martin Amis, making the urge to pop along to the book The Book Festival has also partnered David Bolger Q&A 19 his EIBF debut to launch his new novel zone during Edinburgh’s festival with Fringe theatre veterans Grid Iron always civil Edinburgh ‘The Zone Of Interest’, and Haruki month, will also find some familiar to stage a promenade production International Book Murakami, who makes his first trip faces, most notably in the Babble of four newly commissioned pieces to Edinburgh to launch an English On strand, put together by Fringe SPOKEN WORD Festival which kicks off of short fiction, for which Kei Miller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kamila David Lee Morgan Q&A 20 this weekend, even if Shamsie and Christos Tsiolkas have all ‘let’s talk’ is the headline been invited to reflect on the themes of identity and home in the form CHILDREN’S SHOWS of this year’s programme of letters. Those works have been adapted into ‘Letters Home’, which Children’s Reviews 20 will be performed in Charlotte Square Maddy Carrick column 21 Announcing his line-up earlier this Gardens throughout August. summer, Book Festival Director Nick So, plenty to be getting on with Barley confirmed that the future of then. This year’s Book Festival runs FESTIVAL PEOPLE Scotland will be back on the agenda from 9-25 Aug. Fringe ventures 22 TW EDINBURGH LONDON TW www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk TW www.ThisWeekLondon.com25 The Edinburgh Festival sorted | since 1996 Culture in London sorted | all year round WEEK ONE | WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK | PAGE 03 TW START POINT NEWS & UPDATES VIA TWITTER @ThreeWeeks REVIEW ALERTS VIA TWITTER @TWittique Letter To Edinburgh: from Doug Segal I know what you’re all thinking, took me from a room above a pub to The an excuse. I’ll be back with you from August where the hell is that Doug Segal, Gilded Balloon and even to a sold out EICC. 18 until the end. freaking people out with his But how could I hope to keep up with you Let’s never part again. mentalist skills? Well, he’s not indefinitely? And you could be cruel. I know I love you. at the Festival with a brand new we made up and it was business as usual, Doug x with you showering me with stars and praise show this year people. He’s not by the end, but you made my life hell for the Doug Segal is making a really bad job of taking even in Scotland. Yet. But he did first ten days of August last year. I hated you. a year off the Edinburgh Fringe by flying in to send Edinburgh this letter… I loved you too. perform at the The Five Thirty Cabaret at The CARO WRITES> Famous Spiegeltent (18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 Aug), So, it’s now in full swing. Nothing can stop it now. You’ve never taken me to the cleaners the Musical CID at Gilded Balloon (19 Aug), The Lock-In Cabaret at Voodoo Rooms (19 Aug) and Fest On The Festival is well and truly under way. Hi. How are you? way you do so many people, I know that and Forth (Floor) at Harvey Nichols (24 Aug). More at I’m grateful, but one of the other things you It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? Well, I suspect it’s especially hard www.dougsegal.co.uk. to believe for those who are very much involved in it. They I know I said I wouldn’t contact you but... gifted me was a tour which only finished a mostly decided around this time last year that they were well... I miss you and I hear you’re even few weeks ago, and there was no time to going to bring a show to the Fringe this summer, but for many thinking about leaving the UK. And I know write something new. How could I dare turn it will seem like only a few months have passed since then, a the break was my decision but I just can’t up on your door without a new offering? mere few weeks since Christmas, maybe ten days since they get you out of my head. Like I said when wrote their blurb for the Fringe Programme, a week since they I decided we needed to have a break this I’ve filled my days since writing that new began thinking about what their show would actually consist year, it’s not you it’s me. show and I tell myself it’s for another tour of, and about half a day since they started rehearsing. Actually, but we both know it’s really for you, don’t it might only be half a day since they started rehearsing, but Our romance was so sudden, so we? the point is that it all comes around very quickly. For those overwhelming. I met you almost by accident who come back year in, year out, July is a very ephemeral rather than by design and it was electric. It But... All my friends are with you now and it thing that passes by in the blink of an eye. felt like we’d been made for each other; we hurts, it hurts to see how excited and happy fell in love instantly. And what an incredible you are making them. Is this your revenge It certainly was for me. The fact that it very recently turned three years we had.