But what if you were without technology during a world wide pandemic? I know that to many this sounds completely absurd - everyone has a computer in 2020 right?! Wrong. Even now, when we seem to find ourselves more digitally connected than ever, many of our society are still without technology.

For me, the idea of Edinburgh in August without the Fringe is completely unimaginable. So when the inconceivable news was dropped on April 1st, I (like thousands of other artists, writers, producers, reviewers and backstage crew) was forced to pause, recalibrate and formulise a new plan now that we were faced with the gloomy prospect of a Non-Edinburgh-August.

‘When I was at secondary school, I was academically shamed by my humanities teacher for misunderstanding a homework task he’d set.’