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Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Female friendship that doesn’t beat around the bush
Fresh off the back of a five-star powerhouse Northern tour Is This Thing On? follows two flatmates, one a musician and the other a poet, as they battle over integrity, ownership and the spotlight.
Seamlessly...
Hearts story is now on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
This Is Our Story takes you on a journey through the last 150 years of Heart of Midlothian FC, celebrating the legacy and triumphs of the club.
It’s on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from August...
Paines Plough announce show they are bringing to the Fringe in their 50th year
As the touring theatre company Paines Plough reach their half century they have announced the show which they will bring to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.
Kelly Jones' My Mother's Funeral: The Show will be...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Havana Street Party
Havana Street Party, the spectacular summer dance show from Cuba featuring sexy salsa, sizzling rumba and thrilling street dance from the best dancers on the planet performed an urban dance explosion flashmob with the festival...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Soldiers of Tomorrow ★★★★
There's little doubt which side of the political spectrum Itai Erdal is on and the strength of his bleak, anti-war play about the Arab-Israeli conflict lies in his straight-from-the-shoulder approach.
A former Israeli soldier, the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – The Death & Life of All of Us
A charming, funny and moving multimedia story of intergenerational shame, family secrets and history is set for a full run at Summerhall on this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
At 19, whilst studying film, Victor found his...
Fringe 2023 – Scottish actor will star in Looking for Giants
A young Scottish actor has landed the starring role in a new play to be presented at te Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Abby McCann will star in Looking for Giants, a funny, perplexing and seductive one-woman...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour
If music rocks your socks then you might want to slip on your blue suede shoes and walk ‘n’ roll to Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour.
Led by The Scotsman’s lead rock and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Québec@EdFests
The Québec Government Office in London will bring premier performing artists from ‘la belle province’ to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a varied and exciting programme this summer.
The annual showcase will include circus companies,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Tennessee, Rose
This debut play from Edinburgh born Clare Cockburn delves into the childhood of one of America’s greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams and his sister Rose.
TENNESSEE, ROSE is set in a medical institution where Rose has...
Fringe award remembers Tim Cornwell
Tim Cornwell was a journalist, latterly the arts correspondent with The Scotsman.
He died suddenly last year, and now The Mental Health Foundation Fringe Award will be supported by the Cornwell Charitable Trust for...
Festivals call for more regular government help
Representatives from two of the major Edinburgh festivals, and the Tattoo were invited to give evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee who are studying the topic of "Promoting Scotland Internationally".
Members of the committee...
Pleasance Theatre Trust supports emerging artists at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Pleasance Theatre Trust is working with partners in the UK to support "local exceptional artists" to bring work to the Fringe.
The Edinburgh National Partnerships will contribute to the development of the next...
Fringe tickets for 190 shows on sale now
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that tickets for the first shows at this year's Fringe are now available to book.
The 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe takes place between 4 and 28 August...
Aussie Rowles loving life in Edinburgh
We may all have been shivvering lately in the snow and freezing temperatures, but one high-profile Aussie sporting import claims to be loving the experience. He did admit, however, that this feeling could wear off in time.
Step forward Kye...
A Syrian academic at the Fringe – why I put on a show to...
by Lina Fadel Heriot-Watt University
This summer I performed my own one-woman show at the 75th Edinburgh Fringe – a sentence I never thought I would write in my 17 years of living in the UK....
Fringe Review Sad Book ★★★★★
A quite extraordinary experience where dance, animation and music take you on a journey of emotion that will make you weep.
Michael Rosen was in the audience when I watched 201 Dance Company...
Last minute addition to the Fringe – Richard Demarco in conversation with Richard Pollock
Luath Press have announced a very special last minute addition to this year’s Fringe.
Edinburgh Festivals at 75: Richard Demarco and David Pollock in conversation.
TICKETS HERE
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-festivals-at-75-richard-demarco-david-pollock-in-conversation-tickets-406888032057
Friday 26 August from 1:30pm-2:30pm at Fringe Venue 40...
Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards – shortlist announced
Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Director Nica Burns, announced the nominees for the biggest prizes in live comedy, Best Comedy Show and Best Newcomer Awards, celebrating the best of both established and up- and-coming comedy at...
Fringe recommendation – Stevensongs
The French duo FERGESSEN (indie electro-pop) performs their new show at the French Institute in Scotland.
STEVENSONGS is a musical creation based on Robert Louis Stevenson's most beautiful letters and poems, selected from collections such as : A Child's Garden...
Fringe Review – Maternity ★★★★★
From 1948 until 1954 in Israel, several thousand babies and toddlers were taken from their parents and disappeared.
Two thirds of them were from Yemeni families after 49,000 Jews had been airlifted from one...
Fringe review – Runners ★★★★★
The pace of modern life can often get a bit frantic and in "Runners" Cirk La Putyka, a contemporary circus company from Prague, mount a visually stunning metaphor for its unrelenting pressures.
The action takes place...
Fringe Review – Boys Who Punch Holes in Walls ★★★★
As part of the PBH Free Fringe where you don’t pay to get in, and the acts don’t pay for the venue, a shoestring budget need not limit your ambition.
Writer/Director Lex Joyce, fellow...
Fringe review – Ten Men – The lives of John Bindon ★★★★★
John Bindon is one of those characters that appears as a Zelig like figure in various biographies through his acting career and gangsterism.
His involvement with various figures including everyone from Princess Margaret to...
Fringe review – Basil Brush Family Fun Show ★★★★
by Anoushka Stokes Wilson (10)
As we all know Basil Brush is a hilarious fox, especially in this show, where he’s celebrating his birthday of being in show business for 60 years. The Basil Brush...
Fringe Review – Surfing the Holyland ★★★★
Converting to Judaism is a big undertaking, not least in terms of the impact on one's identity, and it forms the beating heart of the writer-performer Erin Hunter's effervescent one-woman show.
Set in Tel Aviv,...
Fringe review – Buffy: Revamped ★★★★
If you do decide to see Ben Lund-Conlon Lies, Damned Lies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer I’d suggest seeing it back to back with Buffy: Revamped, with a short walk and break in-between them...
Fringe recommendation – Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us
This is a show which puts women’s experience at the forefront of war stories.
In their masks they take us back to the Trojan War, and the tragic fate of Mighty Hector and his wife...
Fringe fundraiser – Give ‘n’ Laugh on Wednesday at The Counting House
Calling all comedy lovers.
The Give ‘N’ Laugh comedy show at Laughing Horse @ The Counting House (Venue no.170), will be raising money for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The fundraiser on 24 August at 5.30pm will be hosted...
Fringe Review – I’m With Stupid ★★
JD Shapiro's life is so packed full of Hollywood names it is the stuff of a movie maven's dreams. A shame then that his candid rags to pitches account of it fails to hit...
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