Let slip the blogs of war ...
New plays inspired by online diaries include one woman's story of life in strife-torn Iraq
Rob Sharp, arts and media correspondent
Sunday August 6, 2006 The Observer
The traditional assembly of attention seekers, hand-waving thespians and artistic extroverts that annually descend on Edinburgh for a month of theatrical festivities is set to be joined this year by the antics of an unlikely soul-mate - the normally secluded bedroom blogger.
A number of new plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the annual celebration of new theatre, which starts today, are taking inspiration from blogs, the online diaries which bring prominence to anonymous wordsmiths. Blogs have proved game fodder for those writing plays for the Fringe, anxious for new material to inform both jaunty comedies and more hard-hitting alternatives.
The full story is here
I'm a big fan of one of the blogs they're talking about, Baghdad Burning. I have a link to it over there on the right.
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