Reviews & features: bribes

Fringe 2012 Bribe of the Week: Clinton the Musical

Runners up include kids' poet Joshua Seigal and dance show Leo

Our inaugural 2012 Bribe of the Week was a close call, although the painstakingly-decorated cupcakes and branded pants from Clinton: The Musical eventually won out. Aside from ticking both the tasty and utilitarian boxes, the bribe showed an…

Attention Fringe 2012 performers: we want your bribes

Buy yourself valuable exposure by sending us your promotional tat

The List is once again declaring itself susceptible to bribery for the duration of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012. Effective immediately, we will be accepting whatever t-shirts toy tractors, confections, underpants, self-portraits, office…

Fringe Bribes 2011 week three winner: Aaaand now for Something Completely Improvised

Runner-up: La Putyka

Our penultimate Bribe of the Week goes to improv comedy troupe Racing Minds, with their alphabetised listings-defeating Aaaand now for Something Completely Improvised. We were mildly impressed when we opened up their package to discover a tin of…

Fringe Bribes 2011: Week 1 winner - Ashton Kutcher’s Dead Girlfriends by Adam Crow

Also: Paul Vickers, Tom Goodliffe, Fresh Bread and Kevin Shepherd

The List’s drive for bribes got off to an overwhelmingly successful start, weeks before the Fringe even began. The grand winner in our first batch of bribers was Adam Crow and his show, Ashton Kutcher’s Dead Girlfriends, in which the sinister comic…

Attention all Edinburgh Fringe performers: We take bribes!

Are you desperate for publicity? Are you willing to pay for it?

Are you desperate to get your show publicised? Are you hungry for that extra bit of exposure that will turn your no-budget show into the 5-star, million dollar production it deserves to be? And most importantly, are you willing to pay for it? We at…

Farm Boy wins this week's best bribe by sending a miniature tractor

This week’s best bribe was this charming miniature 1922 Fordson Tractor, sent by the folk behind Michael Morpurgo’s Farm Boy (adapted by Daniel Buckroyd). The play is a sequel to War Horse, which focused on a young boy and his horse on a journey through…

Fringe performers: How to bribe your way to success in Edinburgh 2010

Bizarre promotional merchandise (or nice food) ensures coverage

Chances are you’ll do just about anything to publicise your show. Luckily for you, The List isn’t interested in sexual favours or cash incentives (non-sequential bills in an unmarked envelope, ta). Instead, we’re jonesing for some bizarre promotional…

The gathering of the bribes

We don’t like to call it bribery, that’s a dirty word, but now that the Festival’s starting to roll into town the standard of, er, unsolicited gifts arriving here at List Towers is definitely on the up. And we don’t mind it one bit. It might not…