Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017

A new comedy by Dan Freeman starring Sylvester McCoy, Richard Oliver and Robert Picardo. An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a joke... Who knew that three men, a massage table and a...

How to Suffer Better Written and performed by Amanda Miller The Newsroom (Fringe Venue 93) Leith Street. Edinburgh 4 -28 August (Except 14 and 21 Aug) | 13:15-14:15Ever wondered if there is a perfect way to suffer? In her tragicomedy,...

Few predicted the events of 2016.  Even fewer seem to know where we are going.  Mark Thomas sets out to discover what the future has in store for us by collecting and examining his...

 Explosive one-man show based on real events comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.BALLISTIC By Alex PackerMini Mall Theatre presents Ballistic at Pleasance Courtyard August 2 - 28, 2017 at 2.15pm (no show August 14). He tries his best...

Rhythm & Blues legend Movin' Melvin Brown (72)  and 17-year-old Edinburgh tap dancer Tamzin Burgess got together earlier  to compare moves in the heart of the capital.Movin' Melvin is not only performing a high-octane...

Phil and Lily have moved to Toronto from Australia to pursue Lily's dreams.Phil, finding himself at loose ends, becomes obsessed with the nest of raccoons living behind the crêperie where he works.As Phil descends...

Tony Burgess: Crimbo Christmas, 2003. What a proper mad one. Tragic? Tick Messy? Tick And then Tony had to adopt his 10 year old autistic nephew, without knowing much about real life himself.  After 24 years on the comedy circuit, penning his own highly acclaimed...

Wales’ leading new writing company, Dirty Protest,  teams up with one of its leading writers, Alan Harris, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe to present Sugar Baby, a brand new one-man comedy about a...

New York comedian Kevin James Doyle is coming to the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a show all about sex – or the complete lack of it. Raised as a clean-living young Christian he knew that sex had...

Elspeth McVeigh, returns to the Edinburgh 2017 Fringe tomorrow for one day only to again delight her audiences with another unusual programme - this time of 17th century popular Scottish and French music.Ayres of...

Born from the depraved improvisations and WhatsApp conversations of comedy quadrant Fridge Magnet, A Voyage of the Easy Sisters makes its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this year. The promoters say the show will ‘have...

There are a lot of clever performers at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. If your idea of a clever performance is one of biting satire then Jonny & The Baptists is a show for...

Peter Michael Marino (Desperately Seeking the Exit, Late with Lance!) turns the often vilified clichés of the solo show genre on their clichéd heads.  Using an arsenal of Post-it® Notes, Pete transforms the real-life...

What do a soon-to-be disgraced politician and a troubled bellhop have in common? They are both trapped in a hotel elevator, between the fourteenth floor and the basement, forcing them to face up to...

From zero experience of stand-up to the fringe in just a year... you're having a laugh! Mark Row and The Free Festival Presents A1: The Long Road to Edinburgh Did you hear the one about the teacher who decided...

Side-splitting, stiff upper-lipped hilarity from energetic duo Dan Lees and Neil Frost.  Two ultra-privileged British gents struggling to hold onto their whimsical world of cricket, tea and secret arms deals.  'Another much-needed chapter in...

Rhythm & Blues legend Movin' Melvin Brown is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the world premiere of a show dedicated to Rock ’n’ Roll king Chuck Berry A Fringe favourite, Brown is a flamboyant wizard of...

I’ve read the book. I’ve seen the film (several times) On Sunday evening I experienced something else – the stage show in the bowels of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Now if, like me and...

Theatre (new writing, lgbt) In a year that celebrates both the recognition of LGBT identities but highlighting the pressing need to challenge homophobia and prejudice, Scorch raises burning issues as relevant now as when it...

“A Case of You” offers a rich vintage for connoisseurs of Joni Mitchell’s work and those interested in a sample tasting.  Deborah Brennan on vocals and keyboards; guitarist Liam Garcia-Hardman and percussionist Chris Neale...

Not many of the other performers at the Fringe have the career backdrop of having been the leader of a country of around 5 million people, but Alex Salmond has lightly thrown that well-worn...

In celebration of the Fringe’s 70th Anniversary, three Scottish theatre companies met in Edinburgh’s historic Grassmarket to celebrate the best of Scotland’s past present and future, in the Fringe Festival.All three companies are part...

Just as we are recovering from the press conference that Alex Salmond held this morning and editing our video, we have heard that his debut Fringe show has been extended (for the second time)...

You really only need to look at Andy Gray and Grant Stott (particularly when they are together) to realise that you are already halfway to laughing.  This play Double Feature has each of them...

When a double murder reunites the classmates of St Elizabeth's Primary School, scores are settled, debts repaid and alliances forged. Twenty years have passed but will those bonds still hold fast?  This hilarious Scottish black...

Mind The Gap tackles learning disability and parenthood at the FringeMind The Gap’s Mia: Daughters of Fortune is at Summerhall – 8 to 27 August 2017Having kids is not an easy decision:...

 Where can you find high flying aerial dance and mind-blowing physics alongside depressed Russian seagulls and sonic imaginings for the Tesla coil within the beautiful environs of a rescued church? Only in Edinburgh of...

Two performers. Velcro. Bit of juggling. Balancing and flying. An hour....?An hour -the first 50+ minutes of which fairly flew by (I hadn't thought to look at my watch - JLP) - full of a variety of small-scale, but clever,...

Four of Cicos Mambo's 'swans' lined up to feed the (real) swans at St. Margaret's Loch for a photo call to publicise their Edinburgh Fringe show at the Pleasance Grand. Full of rhythm and humour,...

Having read the praise from others on social media, anticipation of this show by this Portsmouth all-female theatre group of 16-18 year olds was high. I'm pleased to report the performance exceeded expectations. Atwood's writing is,...