REVIEW: THE NAKED MAGICIANS (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★★
The Naked Magicians are an Australian duo who have come up with a way of not just being another magic show. Yes, they do it naked. Or so the write up of the show says. The show starts with two fully dressed magicians and we find out that if we are going to see them […]
REVIEW: 2 BECOME 1 (Underbelly) ★
I loved the 90’s. It was all about women feeling empowered and equal to men. ‘Girl power’ was a term coined by the 90’s pop sensation Spice Girls who ruled the musical world and helped change history in the music business. When I read about this show 2 Become 1 at the Edinburgh Fringe, I […]
REVIEW: GROWING PAINS (Underbelly) ★★★★
Growing Pains was commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and is written and performed by Tom Gill. Gill has acted in film (he was in Eden Lake with Michael Fassbender) and theatre; this is his debut solo show as a spoken word artist and singer songwriter. Gill has created an intimate and honest piece of storytelling […]
REVIEW: JESS ROBINSON: IMPRESSIVE (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★★
When you think of female impressionists, two names come to mind. Broadway actress and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco and Jess Robinson. Jess is best known for playing the multi voiced character LV in the UK tour of Little Voice. In the show she impersonates a plethora of different voiced divas, from Judy Garland to Julie […]
REVIEW: EXACTLY LIKE YOU (Underbelly) ★★★★
Exactly Like You is a one woman show written and performed by actress and spoken word artist Lotte Rice and directed by Fringe First award winner Kirsty Patrick Ward. It’s a tale of a young woman’s experiences of life, work, love and loss told through clever wordplay and the songs of Nina Simone. Rice tells […]
REVIEW: LET’S TALK ABOUT TAX (Gilded Balloon) ★★★
Dominic Frisby has come to the Edinburgh Fringe to tell us about tax. He knows what he’s talking about as a MoneyWeek commentator, Bitcoin expert and writer for financial websites: “taxation is what holds society as we know it together, and yet there is a dearth of media on the subject”. Frisby has taken it […]
REVIEW: SOOZ KEMPNER – QUEEN (Underbelly) ★★★
I love Sooz Kempner. Her hilarious musings on Facebook brighten up my daily life and I can see us sitting in a pub together, laughing at all the bizarre things about life. Sooz the comedian returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with her five star sketch show A Bit Of A Character and also […]
REVIEW: TAMAR BROADBENT: GET UGLY (Espionage) ★★★★★
If Tamar Broadbent has noticed her YouTube hits spike dramatically over the past few weeks, then that will be have been me binge-watching the music video to her comedy song “The Tube Ride of Shame”. Tamar is a musical comedian who recently shared a bill with the excellent Four Femmes on the Thames at the […]
REVIEW: PANTI: HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES (Traverse Theatre) ★★★★
Panti Bliss is a well known head on the Irish gay scene. A national treasure you might say (and she does). She even has her own Cabaret bar in Dublin called the Pantibar. I went along expecting an hour of comedy and lip-synced songs but what I actually got was a very interesting look into […]
REVIEW: BRIEFS (Assembly Hall) ★★★
I love Briefs (they’re so comfortable) lol. I see it every time it is in London and even their children’s show Bratz: Kids Carnival (which is the polar opposite of their late night raunchy show) is brilliant. So seeing the show at this years Edinburgh Fringe was a no brainier. Described as an Aussie Cirque du […]