For nearly 30 years Nica Burns has run the Edinburgh festival comedy awards. As an influential owner of London theatres, she is also a defender of the current state of the West EndNica Burns has a limp, and even so I'm rushing to keep up. A few days ago, she turned her ankle on a cobblestone " "typical Edinburgh injury," she chuckles " and, when I spot her queuing for a mid-evening comedy gig, is moving at a hob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM on August 26, 2011