Amy Cooke-Hodgson

Cast of Bumper Blyton sing the festival's praises

"The Fringe helps me be the best me I can be."

Review: Austentatious at The Fortune Theatre

It began life in Edinburgh on the Free Fringe, and built such an incredible following that it would go on to sell out in Edinburgh for a further five years.

Austentatious Q&A

Hang on to your bonnets - Jane Austen themed improv show Austentatious is currently on tour across the UK, and to celebrate, TVO caught up with the team and decided to ask each of them just one question.

The premise of Austentatious (18 June, 7.15pm, Radio 4) is that the great novelist actually wrote hundreds of lesser-known works, any one of which can be acted out by a troupe of improvisers including Amy Cooke-Hodgson, Graham Dickson, Charlotte Gittins and Cariad Lloyd if the audience only shout out its name. The extended canon includes Strictly Come Darcy and Mansfield Shark. The first one the team essay is Married to a Cad and a Bounder; the resulting programme works by marrying the pert formality and complex exposition favoured by Austen with a more modern sensibility. Most of all, it works, thanks to the comic reflexes of all concerned.

Standard Issue at the Fringe: part one

As the curtain comes up on thousands of shows in Edinburgh, we thought we'd put a spotlight on our lovely contributors who will be taking a lot of bows over the next month. There'll be more on Monday.