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Plaza Suite is pretty much sold out because people will pay for sensational event theatre and the chance to see a star in the flesh, especially one this consistently fascinating.

If you want to see risk, experiment and new trends in theatre you are more likely to stumble across them at the fringe than at a festival hosting those big co-commissioned pieces of event theatre that endlessly circumnavigate the globe like some cultural Flying Dutchman.

Meanwhile, on the The Arts Desk, Matt Wolf said: "There's no doubt that the instantaneous standing ovation on press night represented a genuine response to the sort of event theatre that audiences increasingly crave."

Four: epics satisfy our current hunger for event theatre.

These tend to categorise themselves as the Fringe equivalent of "event theatre".