— read write play

I have a stack of nearly-edited posts that I need to get up here, but the Penny Dreadfuls’ newest show – Aeneas Faversham Forever – opens tonight. Yesterday’s tech ran well but with each year we seem to have increased the technical demands of the show, giving us less time to work with. Yikes. I’ll hopefully have a few production photos before the end of the week, above and beyond the mysterious tricycle.

Aeneas Faversham Forever runs 30th July – 25th August at the Pleasance Courtyard, starting at 7.10pm. Tickets for the previews are an inflation-busting (ahem) £5 and run through until Friday. To book, call the Pleasance box office on 0131 556 6550 or try the Edinburgh Comedy Festival website.

There don’t seem to be any day-passes so I think I’ll be giving the Edinburgh Interactive Festival a miss, but it’s not as though I have much free time this August. “Consumer tickets” are available on the day or from branches of Gamestation, but it’s not clear how much they cost or what you’ll get access to. (It’s also not really online booking if that page directs you to a pdf which you have to print, fill by hand and then post or fax back. Snark.)

Alex Fleetwood – of last month’s Hide and Seek festival – is on a panel on the future of alternative reality games which I’d like to have heard, but I’m hoping I might bump into him via Andy Field at the Forest Fringe anyway. You can download the advertising-rich programme for the Edinburgh Interactive Festival here.

I’ve just had email confirming my place in the Festival Scavenger hunt – team name, WEDDING DISCO. From that alone, it’s clear the day is going to be all kinds of stupid awesome.