C.<p>Note: slight "<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/mature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mature</span></a>" theme here. I'm not applying a CW - when I was a kid, this would have caused a 12-year-old to titter, but kids these days have read and seen far more explicit stuff a thousand times.</p><p>So I wanted to post something that wasn't politics, that isn't news or topical. Something amusing, maybe, and something I've not posted before. I happened to be reminded of the novel Singularity Sky by Charles Stross yesterday, which has as <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/inspiration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inspiration</span></a> for part of it the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edinburgh</span></a> Fringe Festival.</p><p>That reminded me of a Fringe experience of mine. So here it is. It won't make you rich, or smarter, or wiser, but maybe will give you a laugh.</p><p>My partner and I went to a tiny Fringe festival in a small town some years ago. It was basically a whistle stop between two cities in western Canada; I have no idea why the touring Fringe would even stop there, but it did, at least some of it.</p><p>One of the performances we saw was a version of MacBeth. It was highly <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/abbreviated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abbreviated</span></a>, sort of a cross between a Reader's Digest condensed version, and what you would get if P.D.Q. Bach had an English cousin who did Shakespeare.</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fringe</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FringeFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FringeFestival</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MacBeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacBeth</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PDQBach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDQBach</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/titter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>titter</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bawdy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bawdy</span></a></p>