After last years surprise Literary Pub Crawl mini-hit, and its subsequent transfer to the USA, the award winning Maverick Theatre Company are once again sending writer and founder Nick Hennegan to the Pub in Edinburgh! In fact, to a lot of Pubs!
Maverick’s Birmingham Pub Theatre started because of the Edinburgh Fringe in 1992.
“The Edinburgh Fringe changed my life,” said Hennegan. “Which as a result changed many lives in the Midlands. Our offering in Edinburgh last year and this year reflects the solidarity of writers and highlights the huge and often little-known, literary connections between Scotland and England… and the rest of the world! We’re also going to do short readings from other, first time writers at the Fringe everyday at the end of our tour. It’s great fun to do and the evening sometimes goes on! I’ll never forget how last year a bunch of middle-aged American women started buying drinks and singing Happy Birthday to another local woman on the tour who was celebrating her 18th Birthday! We’re officially out for 90 minutes, but last year many of the tours carried on in our last pub for many hours after that! In this social media age, its a lovely example of strangers coming together and bonding.“
The show, which starts at the Pleasance Below at 3pm each day, has already attracted the attention of a famous name. Sir Ian Rankin – creator of Edinburgh’s D.I. Rebus – has already given Hennegan some assistance.
“Ian is one of the reasons I love writers. A hugely successful man, he has been so kind with recommendations of pubs and writers groups he knows. I think it’s a kind of club. Some of us are hugely successful and some of us are struggling. But we’re all writers and creators. And I think that epitomises the spirit of the Fringe! And it’s why we’re having our open slots for new writers every day. Beer and books! What’s not to like!“
https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-edinburgh-not-london-literary-pub-crawl
