A Beginners Guide to Fringe Greatness

A play about writing a play isn't the most original idea. Still, the youthful cast of A Beginners Guide to Fringe Greatness manage to knock out a good few pastiches of Edinburgh clichés, from all-female interprative dance groups to puerlie productions whose sole selling point is gratuitous nudity.

There are all the usual pitfalls of a small Fringe production in a larger-than-average hotel room, but if you accept a few lines you can't hear properly, and a vague sense of awkwardness from some performers, there's plenty to be enjoyed. Two young men sit at the front, discussing their ideas for a production which will get them fame, money and, of course, lots of "the sex." Their potential creations are acted out on stage with varying amounts of success, ranging from block-busting movie spectaculars to socially-relevant dramas.

Some moments are very funny, some are utterly random, and unfortunately, some are totally predictable and fall lifelessly flat. But if you've been frustrated by all the nonsense of the Fringe, this show could provide you with a little light therapy.