Mark Borkowski: Son of Barnum Assembly Rooms EDINBURGH – INDEPENDENT REVIEW: This canter through the history and application of publicity stunts is more a lecture and slide-show than a one-man show and anyone considering getting up in time to catch Son of Barnum should definitely bring a notebook. From his own career, Borkowski picks out…
Fuming over ban THE Fringe�s reputation for cutting-edge performance art is being jeopardised by the council�s “hysterical” attitude to health and safety, it was claimed today. Performer Mark Borkowski launched a scathing attack on city officials after being refused permission to use a chainsaw in his act at the council-owned Assembly Rooms. http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=951392004
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SCOTSMAN http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/reviews.cfm?id=925692004 Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far KATE COPSTICK ASSEMBLY ROOMS (Venue 3) “I AM not,” says the cherubically charming Mark Borkowski, “a PR guru. I am a publicist.” But not a practitioner of what, in his final, admirably hard-hitting section, he calls “the art of the dark publicist”. Borkowski is Gandalf to…
There’s no such thing as bad publicity AIDAN SMITH T WAS another go-on-impress-me day on the Festival desk of the Edinburgh Evening News and, really, for a hack of such tender years, I was carrying far too much cynicism in the pockets of my copy of a Paul Smith pinstriped double-breaster. These were the 1980s…
Edinburgh festival: Let�s talk about me now Real people are invading the stages with their life stories, says Stephen Armstrong Mark Borkowski, on the other hand, has a very successful career as one of the country�s top publicists. His one-man show, Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far, runs at the Assembly Rooms from August…
Mark Borkowski, Publicist Borkowski, who staged the biggest custard-pie fight ever in the Millennium Dome (3,312 pies in two minutes), has set himself a challenge on a par with making a romance about estate agents. His one-man show will proclaim that we should think of publicists as heroes. Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far…
FRINGE promises sex, rock and possible injury The Scotsman – Edinburgh,Scotland, UK. … The headline-grabbing publicity agent Mark Borkowski is to sell himself in his own show, Son of a Barnum: A Stunt Too Far. Mr Gudgin … http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=663662004