INTERVIEW: THE BURNING comes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to investigate Witches!
Name of Edinburgh show: The Burning Venue: Pleasance Courtyard (Upstairs) Performance time: 15:15 Show length: 60 minutes Ticket price: Previews: £7, Early Week: £11 (£10), Midweek: £12 (£11), Weekend: £13 (£12) Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? My name is Kimberley Hallam, I’m from a tiny village on […]
INTERVIEW: FOUR WOKE BAES heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name of Edinburgh show: Four Woke Baes Venue: Underbelly Cowgate (Belly Button) Performance time: 17:05 Show length: 75 minutes Ticket price: Previews: £7, Weekdays: £11.50 (£10.50), Weekend: £12.50 (£11.50) Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’m a playwright, and I write about people in crisis with themselves, society, […]
INTERVIEW: BROMANCE is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name of Edinburgh show: BROMANCE Venue: MUSIC HALL ASSEMBLY ROOMS Performance time: 15:00HRS Show length: 60MINS Ticket price: £14 (concessions and deals) Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I took up tai kwando when I was really young and discovered that I really preferred the demonstration shows to […]
INTERVIEW: West End Producer talks about bringing FREE WILLY to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name of Edinburgh show: Free Willy Venue: Assembly Studios 2 and Assembly Checkpoint Performance time: 2pm (studios 2) and 4.40pm (checkpoint) Show length: 1 hour. On the dot. Nothing more. Nothing less. Just as theatre should be. Ticket price: Varies on how good looking you are. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself […]
Musical comedy about dealing with dementia PARADISE LODGE heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name of Edinburgh show: Paradise Lodge Venue: Underbelly Bristo Square (Dairy Room), Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG Performance time: 13:15 Show length: 60 minutes Ticket price: Previews: £7, Weekday: £10 (£9), Weekend: £11 (£10) Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’ve been a jobbing actor for 35 years. […]
REVIEW: Queens of Sheba (Underbelly Cowgate) ★★★★
Following huge success at Edinburgh Fringe, Queens of Sheba returns to London at the New Diorama Theatre for the start of September. It is an entertaining, powerful and ambitious exploration of black women’s experiences of racism and sexism. Threading through the centre of the performance is the story of four women going on a night […]
REVIEW: Sister Mary’s Playtime @ Teatime (Frankenstein Pub) ★★★
Some shows only make sense at the Edinburgh Fringe; think ‘Cat photos set to music’, ‘Shitfaced Shakespeare’ and ‘Chasing scenes’. Sister Mary’s Playtime @ Teatime is one of these shows. It is a fringeful mash-up of a hairy nun in a medieval tavern leading the audience in everything from Mary Poppins to rap between comedic […]
REVIEW: Daughter (CanadaHub @ King’s Hall) ★★★★★
Raw, unsettling and far too close for comfort, Daughter forces its audience to look darkness in the eye. Adam Lazarus centres as the unnamed father in this solo performance, produced by Quiptake and supported by Canada Hub. Sporting fairy wings and a pink bandana, Lazarus opens as a loving, good-humoured and, at points, vulnerable father. […]
REVIEW: SITTING (Gilded Balloon) ★★★★
Sitting is the debut play by Katherine Parkinson, better known for her TV roles in The IT Crowd and Humans. This is one of four plays by first time playwrights brought to Edinburgh Fringe by BBC Arts and Avalon Productions. Sitting is set in an attic artist’s studio. Three models enter loudly and singly, take […]
REVIEW: Kate Smurthwaite: Clit Stirrer (Banshee Labryrnth) ★★★★★
I follow Kate around social media (don’t worry, she doesn’t mind) and I really enjoy her specific brand of comedy and we agree on many subjects – particularly feminism and not accepting on line abuse. I’ve been trying to get to a show of hers for quite some time. I was very excited about Clit […]