Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Today’s choice

Published on 06/08/2012 14:44

THREE highlights from today’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival programme

THEATRE

Scotsman Best Of The Fest

Assembly George Square, 2.15PM
FOR just £12, you get SIX top notch Fringe performers - today’s cover star Jim Jefferies, interviewed right, Nina Conti, Mark Thomas (offering a taste of his very personal new show, Bravo Figaro!), theatre performer Kieran Hurley (whose outstanding show Beats, an exploration of 1990s rave culture, opens at the Traverse later this week), Fascinating Aida, below, (reviving last year’s hit, Cheap Flights) and our compere Felicity Ward. What possible excuse could you have not to go?
0131-623 3030

COMEDY

Gareth Morinan explains how Ricky Gervais is a ‘mong’ for cutting Gareth Morinan out of Life’s Too Short

Ciao Roma, 9:35PM, today and 9 August

IT’S difficult to resist a show title like that, especially when it’s free and non-ticketed. If you can’t make it along this week though, don’t worry – on Monday and Thursday next week Morinan will be performing a show called Gareth Morinan Pitches a Better Version of Life’s Too Short (Starring Gareth Morinan) to BBC, HBO, C4, ITV, Sky Etc.

0131-557 3777

MUSIC

Blueflint

Acoustic Music Centre, 9pm

THIS terrific Edinburgh folk band, above, are supporting the Proclaimers on tour this autumn; before that, catch their winning blend of hoedowns and harmonies, bluegrass and ballads, and Scottish and American folk influences, at the Fringe tonight.

0131-668 2019