Edinburgh festival 2011: 'The day I set fire to my venue'
Edinburgh fringe veterans share their past experiences and highlight their picks for 2011Mark Ravenhill, playwrightIn 1987, I set fire to my venue. It rained all the time, so my clothes were generally soaked through. One afternoon I put my wet jeans over a chair in front of a bar heater and left them while I went for a walk. When I got back there were fire engines outside.What keeps me going back to Edinbur…