Five alternative ways to experience the Edinburgh Festival
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Want to know what to see at the Edinburgh festival? Ask pretty much anyone apart from me. This is what editing Edinburgh festival coverage for The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday does to you. I know quite a lot about what will happen at hundreds of shows at the EIF, the Fringe, the Book Festival, the Art Festival etc, having spent the past few months buried in all the programmes on a daily basis. And as a result I have no idea where to start in recommending things. All I can say is, “it depends on what exactly you’re after.” People keep asking, though, so here are five suggestions.