REVIEW: DAN SIMPSON: ARTIFICIAL INELOQUENCE (Banshee Labyrinth) ★★★★
Are you worried that your smartphone is taking over your life? Concerned that a computer could take your job? Troubled by all the data you share online and what happens to it? Spend an hour with Dan Simpson, stand-up and poet, as he takes on the machines. Presenting a techy show in a very un-techy […]
REVIEW: DOORS TO MANUAL (Just The Tonic at the Mash House) ★★★
Doors To Manual is part sketch comedy show, introducing us to characters on an aeroplane and part aviation fun fact lesson. Rhiannon Vivian plays six characters on board an aeroplane, plus herself. It is the scenes with herself that we learn about her life, her struggles with a fear of flying and how that fear […]
REVIEW: KATIE BRENNAN’S QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS ( Underbelly, George Square) ★★★★★
2016 has been a great year for Katie Brennan. She launched her Quarter-Life Crisis show as a two-hour cabaret at the AlleyCat Bar in London’s Soho. So popular was it that extra dates were added and it was subsequently picked up by the St James’ Theatre for a resoundingly successful three-show run. Katie, together with […]
REVIEW: PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON (Assembly George Square Theatre) ★★★★
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honnah Lee. His younger brother, Piff, however leads a slightly different lifestyle. A man sized dragon, on stage, performing magic tricks with his handy assistant Mr Piffles, the magic performing Chihuahua! I first saw Piff The Magic […]
REVIEW: SCOTT AGNEW I’VE SNAPPED MY BANJO STRING, LET’S JUST TALK (Gilded Balloon at the Counting House) ★★★
Following his 2012 hit Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Tales of the Sauna’, Glaswegian comedian Scott Agnew returns to the festival this year with his new show ‘I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk’ at the Gilded Balloon Counting House. Scott Agnew bares his soul in this show, with stories of his addictions to drink, drugs […]
Gruesome Playground injuries – Basic Mountain
Phantom Owl are a Los Angeles-based theatre company “presenting new American theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.” This year presenting three plays: Fault Lines by Stephen Belber, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times by Neil Labute and Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, plus three one-person shows as part of their Flying Solo series. Joseph’s Gruesome Playground […]
Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) – Summerhall
‘Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)’ is a foot stomping hoedown of a tale which marks the The Letter Room’s third play as an associate company of Northern Stage. It is a dark and brooding tale that tells the story of the titular Johnnie, who strikes a deal with the Wind […]
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Greenside
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a band The Angry Inch, and the transgender front woman Hedwig, who assumes a female persona after a botched sex change operation leaves her with an angry inch. In the setting of one of their low key gigs, as they struggle to make it as […]
Nina Conti – Pleasance One
Daughter of actor Tom Conti, Nina Conti is a hilarious stage ventriloquist who has shot to fame with her clever face masks which are strapped to audience members faces and manipulated using a rubber tube held in her hand. She talks for the audience members without moving her lips and improvises embarrassing stories and anecdotes for […]
Fault Lines – Basic Mountain
Phantom Owl are a Los Angeles-based theatre company “presenting new American theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.” This year presenting three plays: Fault Lines by Stephen Belber, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times by Neil Labute and Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, plus three one-person shows as part of their Flying Solo series. Belber’s Fault Lines […]