The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the world, with over 3,700 shows. This year, Playbill is in town for the festival, and we’re taking you with us. Follow along as we cover every single aspect of the Fringe, aka our real-life Brigadoon!
This year at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, everyone's talking about Gwyneth Paltrow. That's because there's not one, but two, musicals currently running at the festival that dramatize the real-life trial between Paltrow and optometrist Terry Sanderson—where Sanderson sued Paltrow for $300,000 for allegedly crashing into him on a ski slope. Paltrow countersued for $1. One musical is called I Wish You Well, the other one is called Gwyneth Goes Skiing. Playbill got an exclusive look at the latter, created by Awkward Productions.
In the video above, captured by Playbill's Ethan Treiman, Linus Karp plays Paltrow and Joseph Martin plays Sanderson, as they fight-dance and lip-sync to the original song "See You in Court." The song is written by Leland and contains vocals from Darren Criss and Catherine Cohen (who has her own show at the Fringe).
Gwyneth Goes Skiing is currently running at Pleasance Courtyard through August 26. Click here for tickets. After, the show will embark on a U.K. and Ireland tour.
