Yes, the framework of a Seder is here, four cups of wine, four questions, bitter herbs, spilled wine for the plagues, but meaning has gone out the window from the moment we arrive. Weapons of Empathy is on daily at 1pm at Gilded Balloon at the Museum and MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand Up Comedy at 8:35pm at The Stand at New Town Theatre.

A table of various evocative perfumes, a clear homage to Erin Morgenstern’s Night Circus, was a highlight for me, as was the goth fantasy of slipping into a secret absinthe bar in a vintage mausoleum. One that requires a big audience with a bit of booze in them and some optimism, probably a later night slot. But we come to immersive to be transported away from the reality of curtains in a community center, to suspend our disbelief hung by moments of interaction, and the interaction design is strong. BLACK WOOD (shockingly for the burlesque space, the name is not a double entendre) is a dark fairy tale forest, in which a coven of witches perform their grizzly, giddy sacrifices.

It is a biographical show which criss-crossed with many of the same events in my own timeline: the utter fear of breaking someone else's game console; a fostering of lonerism from not caring about team sports; that first job as a KP washing pots and chopping vegetables. Use of the Fringe logo is at the sole discretion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society who will take the appropriate action to protect its unauthorised use. A spoken word show involving aerial hoop, chair-acro and burlesque dance supported by musician Tom Bailey. Dancing and drinking at the ominous early-play wedding adds tension to the play’s weaker, exposition heavy first act.

It was inspired by the Linda Smith Lecture I delivered a couple of years back, It has a beginning and an end, but the middle is still forming.GIRLS RECORD LOUNGE BRING YOU AN EVENING OF FILM, MUSIC, FASHION, ART AND CANAPÉS CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIP HOP WITH A SPECIAL SHOWING OF WILD STYLE. However, the most impactful audio performance I attended, Klanghaus Darkroom, made little use of technology at all. Universally hailed as the first hip-hop movie, "Wild Style" captures New York's hip-hop culture circa 1981 and several prominent figures including Busy Bee Starski; Fab 5 Freddy; the Cold Crush Brothers; and one of the godfathers of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash. Eight theatre companies who had not been invited decided to show up anyway, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was created — the first-ever “Fringe Festival.