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Shunt's new home and Edinburgh musical transfers - what's happening this week on the fringe

Posted 10.24 am Mon Sep 14 by Caroline McGinn

The avant-garde lads and lasses from Shunt open an event in their new building this week – Shunt Bermondsey Street is a warehouse just around the corner from that secret door in London Bridge tube station which has led so many revellers under the arches in the last few years. Shunt’s lease on the vaults may be coming to an end but their work will continue at 42-44 Bermondsey street. And ‘Money’ is an event based on Emile Zola’s ‘L’Argent’, itself inspired by a 19th Century banking fiasco (sound familiar, anyone?)

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From fashion fluff to gun crimes - this week's big openings

Posted 4.00 pm Wed Sep 9 by Caroline McGinn

All eyes were on the Lyric Hammersmith on Tuesday where new artistic director Sean Holmes opened his first autumn season. Holmes has a hard act to follow – the Lyric’s previous artistic director David Farr, now an associate at the RSC, made the west London theatre into a powerhouse for company-led devised work and experimental theatre and did much to bring on companies like Filter.

It looks like Holmes will be building on Farr’s platform but also extending a hand back out to writers. Filter’s Ferdy Roberts is one of Holmes’s new artistic associates (Filter’s version of ‘Three Sisters’ will preview from Jan 15 and open on Jan 25). But first up is Holmes’s other key associate: acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens, with ‘Punk Rock’, a new play about a high school shooting in the north of England.

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A big sea-change in Fringe coverage

Posted 5.47 pm Fri Aug 28 by Andrew Haydon

In my 12 years of coming to the Fringe, a good deal has changed. The proliferation of the mobile phone, the seemingly unstoppable rise of the super-venues, the arrival of the internet... all have subtly altered the way we experience Edinburgh.  But this year, it feels like the biggest sea-change is in Fringe coverage.For a while now, the dominance of the national press has been being challenged, first by independent free reviews papers such as Three Weeks and Fest, and now by a growing proliferation of internet reviewing sites. This year it seems that the papers have been largely superseded by the online world.

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Beyond the Fringe - Edinburgh's Forest Fringe

Posted 2.57 pm Tue Aug 25 by Caroline McGinn

The not-for-profit Forest Fringe was one of Time Out’s favourite innovations last year. It operates outside the mainstream Fringe Festival (you won’t find it in the guidebook). And it provides a genuine antidote to the commercial democracy of the festival (which is open to anyone who can raise several thousand pounds to rent their 60-minute slot and bring their company to Scotland). At the Forest the programme is selected by organisers Andy Field and Debbie Pearson, but the work is open-ended, often makeshift and produced on a shoe-string budget: audiences pay what they can and the takings are split between the artists and the venue.

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/PROFILES

CAROLINE McGINN
/THEATRE EDITOR

Caroline is currently Theatre editor of Time Out, and has previously written about theatre, books and contemporary culture for Time Out, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

ANDREW HAYDON

Andrew Haydon is a freelance theatre critic. He writes regularly for Time Out, the Guardian online and has his own blog Postcards from the Gods. He has also had reviews published in German, Polish, Lithuanian and Czech.