REVIEW: TINA T’URNER TEA LADY AND FREAKS! (Frankenstein Pub) ★★★★
West End Wilma award nominated comedian Tracey Collins has hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year with her new show Tina T’urner Tea Lady and Freaks! Already an established character act as Tina T’urner Tea Lady (a homage to a Tina Turner obsessed fan who runs a tea shop), Tracey Collins now brings three new […]
REVIEW: WEST END PRODUCER – FREE WILLY (Assembly George Square) ★★★
Amongst the 3,000 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, masked West End theatre and Twitter phenomenon ‘West End Producer’ makes his performance debut with his show ‘Free Willy The Musical’. The anonymous man of theatreland (or ‘WEP’ as he is known), first became known for writing about theatre and then for running two […]
REVIEW: FRISKY AND MANNISH’S POPLAB (Assembly George Square Gardens) ★★★★★
I first fell in love with Frisky and Mannish seven years ago and they were one of the first acts I ever reviewed on this blog. Back then I said “if you don’t fall in love with Frisky and Mannish, then you can’t have much of a sense of humour” and I stand by that […]
REVIEW: FLO & JOAN: BEFORE THE SCREAMING STARTS (Assembly George Square Gardens) ★★★★★
Musical comedy stars Flo & Joan hit the big time in late 2016 with their virtual YouTube video ‘The 2016 Song” in which they poked fun at all the things that had happened in the news that year. In 2018, Flo & Joan graced our screens in a TV advert for Nationwide Building Society, with […]
REVIEW: Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends (Assembly Rooms) ★
Friendsical (a musical based on the 90s sitcom Friends) is the latest nostalgic trip-down-memory-lane show, which is currently so on trend in the world right now. Assuming everyone is familiar with the TV show, the premise for the show is that Ross wants to put on a musical spectacular to celebrate the story of the […]
REVIEW: MISFIT WARRIOR (The Space) ★★★★
Electrifying synths, beats and casual choreography generate Stuart Saint’s resplendent testimonial gig, where Misfit and Warrior collide. His autobiographical story of HIV and Cancer manifest a domino effect of destruction, leaving survivor-in-crisis Stuart rescuing his mortality. On world Aids Day 2017, Stuart Saint posted a video declaring his HIV positive status, which quickly went viral. […]
See JACK TUCKER: COMEDY STAND UP HOUR at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Astonishingly killer character comedy in JACK TUCKER: COMEDY STAND UP HOUR sees Zach Zucker lampoon every bad joke and hack comic in the book with conviction that has had audiences as extremely baffled, as they are entertained. Ahead of his Edinburgh run JACK TUCKER chatted to West End Wilma… Name of Edinburgh show – Jack […]
MARTHA MCBRIER talks about bringing HAPPINESS BULLY to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Glaswegian cussing, crowd work extraordinaire MARTHA MCBRIER is the Queen of the Free Fringe. Her show at this year’s festival launches a campaign against the perennial HAPPINESS BULLY in her hard-hitting and hilarious show about suicide, country music and not smiling just because the office idiot told you to cheer up. Ahead of the show’s […]
Physical comedian and clown RICHARD SAUDEK brings BEEP BOOP to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Award-winning physical comedian and clown RICHARD SAUDEK puts his heart and body into this human tale of one man’s cripplingly lonely obsession with technology, in BEEP BOOP. The show combines projection, foley sound, original composition, clowning and oh so very physical, physical theatre and he’s bringing it to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. Ahead of […]
Marty Evans talking about bringing ‘Humans’ by Circa to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name of Edinburgh show: Humans by Circa Venue: The Lafayette Performance time: 1900 Show length: 60 minutes Ticket price: 20 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I found circus late while I was studying a maths/chemistry degree at the University of Sydney. I then discovered the National Institute […]