What's Opera, Dog?

The Bath Chronicle › August 26, 2010

Linked as:

Summary

I thought my early morning bus was a good place to overhear odd and intriguing snippets of conversation, but having attended Edinburgh Festival last week I've decided theatre queues and foyers are a far richer source. Like the man shouting into his mobile phone that he'd liked haughty and dirty but not the other two. What on earth was that about? And the young woman complaining that the performance of Ovid's Metamorphoses she had just seen was a long Latin poem when she thought it would be 'like that thing when Jeff Goldblum turns into a fly'.

Ralph OSWICK The festival and fringe sell around a million tickets between them. Vast crowds gathered to cheer the street theatre shows and every possible surface was plastered with posters. You couldn't take a step without an eccentrically dressed and over- eager leaflet pusher grabbing your attention. Outside a colourful tent in the park yet another line was forming. 'Must be something on' commented a woman, oblivious to the festival frenzy around her.