Pages

Monday, 24 September 2012

Edinburgh Festival 2012

It has been a strange Edinburgh festival this year. Everyone needs to be an artist in the babble of shows and posters that is the EIF and the Fringe, which is now the main event and has become slick with stylized big productions. Most young people go to the comedy shows. 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. Whatever else love is, it is always a mystery. I spend most of my time here at the Edinburgh Book Festival (more to follow). Fireworks end each night to mark the finale of the Edinburgh Tattoo.