Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts and 'solve-along' Murder She Wrote: bizarre fringe parodies
On Edinburgh fringe stages, pop is eating itself with a series of pastiches and tributes that riff on TV hits and surreal celebrity reimaginings This review goes out in honour of Gerard Slevin. He was the theatre director who in 1961 came up with a suggestion of how to bring the burgeoning Edinburgh fringe into line. "I think there should be a limitation on the number of halls used during the festival," he said after…