Everyone needs to be an artist in
the babble of shows and posters that is the EIF and Fringe. It used to be about
amateur student shows. Now it has become slick with stylized big productions
and most young people go to the comedy shows. I heard that the new Summerhall
venue is about what the festival used to be before it all became corporate,
comedy and rubbish.
**My Theme
this year was Love. Love knows our hearts desires, our mirrors. There are
voices of hope in a world often torn asunder and we are full of wonder… surely?
Tolstoy wrote of reverence, humility and
love and he felt that the narrative was outside his control. I promise myself I
need to write more.
Where do
stories come from and why?
Whatever
else love is, it is always a mystery.
Fireworks
end each night to mark the finale of the Edinburgh Tattoo.
