Edinburgh 2009: roundtable review

22nd August 2009

 

EDINBURGH 2009 REVIEW

Philip Fisher joins the Guardian’s Lyn Gardner and Scottish critic Mark Fisher to assess the highs and lows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2009 and International Festival including Internal (Traverse), The Event (Assembly Rooms) and Faust (EIF).

You can easily see five plays in a single day and you begin to spot the preoccupations of playwrights and so you start getting a real sense of the mood of the times.