REVIEW: ALLEGRO (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
Allegro has yet to be seen in London, essentially meaning it’s been a 69 year long wait from its original Broadway production. With the show following the success of Oklahoma! (1943), and Carousel (1945), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s third collaboration didn’t quite make the splash they had planned in New York, but this new production at […]
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: STEEL MAGNOLIAS (HOPE Theatre) ★★★★★
Robert Harling wrote Steel Magnolias based on real-life family experiences. Following the death of his sister due to diabetes, related complications after delivering his nephew and a failed liver transplant from a family member, a writer friend advised Harling to write his experiences into a short story for his young nephew to better understand the […]
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 […]
REVIEW: OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR (National Theatre) ★★★★
With the Edinburgh Fringe Festival just getting into the swing of things, it becomes a poignant moment for the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour knowing that this time last year was the world premiere of their production at the intimate Traverse Theatre. One year on, they now make their debut at the National […]
REVIEW: DEAL WITH THE DRAGON (C Venues) ★★★★
Deal With The Dragon is a one man show written and performed by Kevin Rolston. It comes to Edinburgh after being selected as Best of the San Francisco Fringe. The play is a modern take on the traditional ‘deal with the devil’ and follows what happens when Hunter, a talented and fragile artist, strikes up […]
REVIEW: IMPROMPTUNES – THE COMPLETLEY IMPROVISED MUSICAL (Underbelly Med Quad) ★★★
The Impromptunes are an Australian theatre troupe that combine improvisation with musical theatre. They debuted at Melbourne Fringe in 2013 and have since taken their production to Perth Fringe World, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe throughout 2014 and 2015. In 2016 they bring their one-hour show to Edinburgh Fringe. The format is simple […]