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Fringe 2024 – Markus Birdman: We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of...
Birdman: We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Gutter
In comedy shows, it's soon clear whether the performer will deliver the goods. Markus Birdman is one performer who...
Fringe 2024: Polishing Shakespeare⭐⭐⭐⭐
Janet is a writer with student debts. Miss Branch directs a theatre that’s struggling for funds.
Enter Grant, e-commerce billionaire and the friendly face of capitalism. Or is he?
Grant wants the plays of Shakespeare ‘translated’...
Fringe 2024: In the Lady Garden ⭐⭐⭐
Alice is in a police station cell. She’s 69 years old and she’s mortified. Before we find out what she’s supposed to have done, she will tell us about her life and how it...
Fringe 2024 – Slow Burn ⭐⭐⭐
Yas’s boyfriend Chad is gaslighting her. He’s not replying to her messages and he’s turned his Snapchat location off.
Life isn’t going how she’d like it to, so instead she writes Fan Fiction -...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Antonio! ★★★★
‘Liberate yourself from the gender binary and celebrate queer joy!’ screams the flyer. And a celebration is exactly what Antonio! provides.
This show is such a joy; it’s hilarious, it’s camp, it’s well acted,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – The Only Punk Rocker in the Village ★★★★
If you remember the 1970s you will love this show. And if you don’t, you’ll probably love it anyway because it’s hilarious.
In a hugely entertaining 50 minutes, Dermot Petty takes us back to his...
Umbilical Brothers strike a chord with Fringe audiences ★★★★
The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction is a misnomer for in this hour-long madcap maelstrom there is little chance of being distracted from what is going on stage and screen as David Collins and Shane...
Babbling since a baby, Gyles just won’t stop talking ★★★★
Gyles Brandreth is that annoying geezer on in the background of my mother’s telly when I go visit her.
And queuing for his Gyles Brandreth Can’t Stop Talking! show (he really can’t) at Assembly George...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Robin Ince: Weapons of Empathy★★★★★
Robin Ince has endeared himself to me before his show even starts.
First he hands out cards and asks us all to write down any books that have helped us be more empathetic, to understand...
Fringe hit comedian comes to The Brunton
After his critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show, Thunderjab 3, Midlothian-based, Scottish comedian and writer, Eric Davidson, brings his unique style of humour to The Brunton this Autumn.
Over the last few years, Eric has been...
Big Wowie! Burns Night Comedy Ceilidh – reserve free tickets now
BIG WOWIE! BURNS NIGHT COMEDY CEILIDHMonday 25 January 20218pm – 10pm GMT FREE
Admission is free. Donations are welcome and will support the artists and venue.
Big Wowie! Comedy celebrates Burns Night 2021 with a Comedy Ceilidh...
Book Review: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Vampire Menace
We first met Ms Shona McMonagle in Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, Edinburgh author Olga Wojtas’s debut novel.
Shona, now a librarian in Morningside, that most respectable and genteel of Edinburgh suburbs, is a proud...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 REVIEW Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk ★★★★
Taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe is a risky business, one that typically involves throwing thousands of pounds to the wind and seeing where it falls. Even shows that sell out lose money,...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Kurl Up and Dye****
There are many serious, literary, insightful productions at the Fringe, but sometimes, after a long day, all you want is good undemanding entertainment. In Kurl Up and Dye, Newcastle University Theatre Society (the appropriately abbreviated...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Footnotes & Phrases
Lewys Holt brings two companion shows, performed on alternate days, to Summerhall’s Anatomy Theatre for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.
Footnotes is a dance/ theatre comedic parody of a lecture driven off course bythe repeated intervention...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – A Migrant’s Son
Frank Ford Award Winner 2019 Adelaide Fringe - A MIGRANT’S SON by MICHAELA BURGER
“A FAR-REACHING GENERATIONAL STORY THAT CROSSES DIVIDES, IGNITES MEMORIES AND PULLS AT YOUR HEART-STRINGS” Stage Whispers
Square Sums are proud to present...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Mandy Muden: Is Not The Invisible Woman
The magnificent, multi-award winning Mandy Muden is bringing a brand new show packed with mind blowing magic and camp comedy to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Her spectacular performances on Britain’s Got Talent 2018 and non...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – The Trial
Tieta comes home to a small, conservative Brazilian village in search of justice – the audience will be the jury.
Part stand-up, part gig, part storytelling The Trial is a dynamic and interactive piece of theatre that...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – The John Rowe Show
The sofa is beige but John Rowe is anything but – and the Aussie entertainer is bringing his much-loved chat show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
It promises a hectic evening of groovy live tunes,...
Speaking to Angela Barnes ahead of appearance at The Stand next week
By Veronica Lee
Her new show is called Rose-Tinted, which suggests Angela Barnes is a glass-half-full kind of woman. Yet the stand-up, while being bright and cheery in person, admits to being a pessimist. “I...
At The Stand on Sunday – Glenn Wool
Award-winning Canadian comic Glenn Wool is back on the road with a show dedicated to his funniest and finest punchlines and will appear at The Stand on Sunday 10 February 2019.
Now comfortably in his...
‘9 to 5: The Musical’ – Edinburgh University Footlights
Edinburgh University Footlights opens tonight at The Pleasance
In 1963 the Equal Pay Act was passed in the United States.
The UK had to wait until 1970 to see its own legislation enacted. By 1980
things hadn’t changed much; the daily...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – Amy Annette: What Women Want ****
What Women Want could be many things – a question posed by Freud, a 2000 film starring Helen Hunt and Mel Gibson or a hilarious and thought-provoking live comedy show from comedian and producer...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – Bryony Twydle: Flamingo ****
After attending the Fringe previously as part of five-piece sketch group The Jest, character comic Bryony Twydle makes an accomplished solo Fringe debut with her refreshing and inventive show Flamingo.
Twydle introduces us to six...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – REVIEW – Viv Groskop: Vivalicious ***
In Vivalicious writer, broadcaster and comedian Viv Groskop’s attempts to become her best self through the gospel of Oprah Winfrey.
Groskop grew up in a house full of self-help books. She was even given a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – One Woman Sex and the City ****
In the year Sex and the City celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first airing, writer and performer Kerry Ipema takes us on a hilarious romp through six seasons of the popular HBO show which...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Ciarán Dowd Don Rodolfo
This August, character comedian Ciarán Dowd (as seen in BBC1's Josh, E4's Gameface and fringe hit sketch shows from BEASTS) becomes total butthead, shameless libertine and incomparable swordsman: Don Rodolfo in his hotly anticipated solo fringe debut.
Don Rodolfo will...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Charlie Partridge
Charlie Partridge (host of The Moth Live in London, international hit Rebel
Bingo and one half of fringe hit sketch duo Robin & Partridge) tried to be cool while falling in love. This mistake and others took him...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – My Kind of Michael
Very funny exploration of the rise and fall of Nick Cassenbaum’s hero, Michael Barrymore
Ever since his Nanna Sylvie bought him ‘Barrymore’s Best Bites’ on VHS when he was seven, Nick has loved Michael Barrymore. Now, in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sisters
Innovative sketch duo Sisters (Christy White-Spunner and Mark Jones) return to the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the ground-breaking follow up to their smash hit
debut.
The critically acclaimed double act invite you to the product launch of their...
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