Festivals Week Two

Portraits of Fringe performers and Edinburgh festivals personalities commissioned by and published in The Scotsman’s ‘Festival’ supplement and Scotland on Sunday.

Above: “I interpret your dreams”: Kaya The Dreams Interpreter.

Above: A pillar of the community: outspoken comedian Jim Jefferies (pictured in Edinburgh’s Waterloo Place).

Left: Mark Thomas – the thinking person’s comedian and one of my all-time favourites – in ‘Bravo Figaro’ at the Traverse Theatre.

Mark’s usual style of politically aware comedy is softened this year in this touching portrayal of his father Colin – a Thatcherite builder and huge opera fan – who now suffers from dementia.

So Mark sees to it that his old dad gets a very special performance from ENO’s finest talent in his very own sitting room at his Bournemouth retirement house.

For more info on this touring show – which won a Fringe First Award from The Scotsman and a Herald Angel Award – visit: www.markthomas.info

Above: Cultural Olympiad Director Ruth Mackenzie OBE, who popped into town to oversee the Edinburgh Festivals end of London 2012 events – pictured in her trademark killer heels and platinum hair.