My First Edinburgh Festival Fringe Experience

My first Edinburgh Festival Fringe experience was every bit as barmy, avant garde and inspirational as I hoped it would be.

I think the stand out moment – as you may have seen on my Instagram Stories – was when one of the performers of Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane? (sic) squirted her breast milk on the front row, for the show.

She was playing the character of an overwrought Mary, Mother of Jesus. Apparently he’d been ‘crying all night’, no one cared and her body had changed beyond recognition.

I’m no prude but I’d honestly never seen anything like it.

The backdrop was a huge vagina with a face projected on it. The show featured them playing Frida Kahlo, acting out various famous pornos as old ladies, and being sexy snakes indulging in the apple ‘from the tree’ – all in the name of feminism.

The messages under the wonderful weirdness were of course powerful, but the delivery was quite a bit to take. I wouldn’t want any actors bodily fluids sprayed on me, no matter where they came from.

Neither did the front row – they walked out, a few seconds later.

My Edinburgh Fringe shows 2018

It was kinda my fault we’d been sent to see this.

We were at the Fringe thanks to Edinburgh City Festivals. They run 5 festivals in Edinburgh in August and they’d invited me and my housemate and fellow blogger Emily up to experience a few of them. They asked what kind of shows we wanted to see, and as I look back to my answer, apparently I’d replied ‘the filthier the better’.

Well, not quite, but that’s what I meant. I’d actually said ‘the more 18+ the funnier’ – a politer way of making sure we weren’t going to have to sit through any experimental dance pieces. 

Instead we got that ^ and the following…

My favourite show of the Fringe