Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival

Advantages: entertainment & education
Disadvantages: not too many cheap places to stay but youth hostel and the camp

...that theatre is a pretentious high-class performance, expecting of you to be something or somebody. But these theatre performances are professional enough for the passengers as well as it is for the theatre enthusiasts. Here, no one will give a history book to study, because you can hear and see by yourself. Professionally PUF is a festival that is questioning and affirming contemporary, without boring pretentious expectations. It explores innovating theatre, out of the usual institutions and guides. As the present of independent theatre in Croatia, PUF is facing the actual aesthetics and the poetry of the current theatre in the world. The town of Pula has the six largest Roman amphitheater in the world, most beautiful by the elegance, existing 3 000 years, and makes Pula unique place with all the traces of its distant past inhabitants. From... Read review

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Advantages: Lots to choose from, some superb theatre and comedy, chance to meet the great and the good!
Disadvantages: Sometimes too much to choose from, can be quite pricey, accommodation is hard to find.

...we had made, all in order to raise money for the, not insubstantial, deposit required. We gained a place at one of the Festival's largest venues, the Pleasance (we were in the Dome, which is usually a students union, as opposed to the courtyard), and after a lot of hard work, many hours of writing and rehearsing, and a stupid amount of difficulty in finding accommodation, I Went To Uni And All I Got Was This Lousy Theatre Company (I came up with the name, and am excessively proud of it) were ready to unleash Now That's What A Call A Karaoke Musical on an unsuspecting Scottish capital. Upon arriving in Edinburgh, I was concerned. Wasn't this meant to be the biggest festival of it's kind just about anywhere? Where was everyone? Luckily, two of our team had been the year before, and were able to assuage any doubts by assuring us... Read review

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Advantages: Beer, comedy... ummm beer and comedy...oooh and opera and theatre and poetry and did I mention beer and poetry?
Disadvantages: The need to remortage your house

...Noble - Yes he's expensive and yes sometimes he dissapears up himself in the middle of a routine but his routine this year had my sides heaving with agony. And the best bit is that he will never do the same routine twice - think of it as a stand-up routine just for you! 3) John Hegley - Slightly odd poetry anyone? Howabout a quick poem about a potato - "The spud sped". As funny as any of the comedians at the festival and as moving as any of the plays. Just go. 4) Adam Hills - He's just nice but extremely funny with it. He can take incredibly morbid subjects like the Bali bombing and 9/11 and make them funny - not by taking the p**s but by telling heartwarming reactions to them. Special tip - go to the Sunday night shows for simultaneous translation into sign language - you haven't lived until you see the Gollum "My Prescious!" line done... Read review

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