Day four and a bit of Fringe fatigue is beginning to kick in. With 15 performances already under our belts already, a couple of late night shows and a lot of hills we’re now relying heavily on caffeine and berroca to get us through the day and night.

Yesterday we went to see ‘For the Love of Robert’, a show part funded by the Ideas Fund Innovators award. Based on the true story of Robert McCartney who was brutally murdered in Ireland, the show focused on the campaign fought by his sisters to bring his killers to justice. This was a powerful and intense performance, which left many audience members in tears by the final curtain.

Next up it was time to undertake our Theatre Ninja challenge. We put our fate in the hands of the app, and went to see comedy show Lee’s Laws of the Land. We picked up our free tickets from the box office with our secret code word and took our seats. The show was based around one mans view of new laws for the UK, and the audience were invited to add their own laws too. It was a nice premise for a show, with plenty of chuckles, but not quite our cup of tea.

Following a spot of dinner (the food in Edinburgh has been as much of a highlight as the shows!) we went to put our fate in the hands of Theatre Ninjas again. The next show that was on was Around the World on £80, so we ran across town to see the performance in one of the cities hotels. This was an intimate musical performance by a barefooted Irishman and his fiddle whose charm you couldn’t help but love. A rambling, rhyming and quite simply random story followed that engaged everyone in the audience and by the end made you feel as if you were part of the story too. With quite a few laughs, and a really rather endearing storyteller, this show was surprisingly enjoyable and without Theatre Ninja’s we probably would never have known it was there.

The app is a great way to discover unknown shows, and to have a cheap night out at the Festival – if you’re going to the festival we definitely recommend that you give it a try, and look out for when they roll it out in London later this year.

Today is the Fringe Fair at Fringe Central between 4 and 7 – if you’re up in Edinburgh come down and say hello!