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No luck for the Irish but Base ingredients make for a winning recipe

The Welcome mat is out at Dance Base, there are flying ducks on the wall – as well as flying bodies in the upstairs studio – while kitschy-couthy decorative touches bear out the Fringe mantra that here, in the Grassmarket, is The Home Of Dance.

Sadly, circumstances beyond anyone’s control mean that the National Folk Theatre of Ireland are no longer able to present What The Folk! They are now back home in the Emerald Isle. But, hand on heart, with 11 other shows on offer -- three of them double bills -- you’re not short of rewarding choices.