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actors keep an eye on the unrest, while we take a cruise alcohol and witnessed a blatant act of defiance against the subversive playwright - may have something more exciting in the second week

weekend is one of the festivals of Edinburgh, no one was enough vitamin C and the sky is still the color of boiled three days old. But the festival continues in March, fearless, and us. So what have we learned?

violence comic

biggest story of the week, of course, was something that did not touch at a distance of Edinburgh (Scotland or, as Alex Salmond was a little too ready to point): the riots. The festival can feel like a bubble in the best, but the comics have tried to connect to the chaos that occurs in several cities. In an article on Wednesday, Stephanie Merritt spoke with artists such as Andrew Maxwell and Susan Calman whether this is a turning point for political comedy (thoughtful discussion below the line, too).

pot Pinter

flyerering may have been in the Royal Mile (about four minutes, the rumor), but Lyn Gardner was clearly not impressed by his tribute to Pinter, Julian Sands with old friend, it does not pronounce "bad. just pretty boring and Pinter has never been that." Youchen.

Booze and muse

of interest with altruistic, Brian Logan on a cruise with a difference of alcohol earlier this week, talking with artists about alcohol and partying. We wonder if you drink vodka in three minutes

not mess with the public

In the previous festivals controversial Belgian theater company Goed Ontroerend invited viewers inside the bedrooms of teenagers and leads to duplication of blind dates, but now they are one light source in the stalls with a show that makes the home crowd in a show (literally, so a camera roams the auditorium and projects the results on a giant screen behind the stage). Lyn Gardner wrote about him, thoughtfully, Thursday, performance, I saw almost came out when a theatregoer stormed the stage and refused to allow him to continue. Brilliantly subversive tabloid drama or spectacle? Certainly the show I saw where people were fighting in the rain later.

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