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Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit raises £30,000
Last night at the McEwan Hall Underbelly held a second Big Brain Tumour Benefit. All the ticket income will go to the Brain Tumour...
Decade long partnership has busiest Fringe on record
A historic city institution is set to host its biggest ever Edinburgh Festival Fringe as it celebrates a decade-long partnership with one of the...
Review: Abandoman drives them wild *****
Abandoman
Underbelly
2130 hrs
IRISH comedy rapper Abandoman played to a packed audience at the Assembly Underbelly in George Square.
The audience was absolutely up for this act...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – Janis Joplin Full Tilt ****
The award-winning, sell-out hit by writer Peter Arnott and director Cora Bissett returns. Angie Darcy's Joplin, backed by a live band, is electric.
I was...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW : Twelfth Night or The Ship of Fools***
In Livewire Theatre’s Twelfth Night or The Ship of Fools, a shipwreck becomes a plane crash, a countess wields a hammer, and a duke’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – Our Boys****
This has some really funny moments, and some really funny lines. When we saw the really short preview last weekend, it sparked enough interest...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW Aye Elvis****
Don’t go to see Aye Elvis for the music, but do go along for the music. You might not be someone who hates Elvis,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Simon Callow in De Profundis*****
Playing to the lunchtime crowd is probably not the easiest of gigs, but from the off Simon Callow has not given himself an easy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW: Knowing more about Ken****
Ken
Pleasance Dome 1520 hrs
ALTHOUGH this play focuses on the life of enigmatic and eccentric writer, actor, producer, Ken Campbell, it was, firstly, a pleasure to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018: Notes From Shetland to Shanghai
If you think harps are only played by angels or elderly ladies in ballgowns, think again.
Harpist Sophie Rocks is just 23, and although her...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Archie Maddocks: Matchstick ***
Award-winning Archie Maddocks presents an hour of biting, provocative, unflinchingly funny comedy where he explores his deepest and darkest thoughts, exposes his flaws and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Review: The Power of Music – Bernard MacLaverty
In the midst of all the frenzy that is the Old Town in August, St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church on George Street...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Chiaroscuro: A Kindertransport Story***
Chiaroscuro: A Kindertransport Story
Central Hall Studio
Sir Nicholas Winton, who died in 2015 aged 106, organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Prague on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018: Brenda’s Got A Baby****
‘I’ve got two choices; work in a shop for the rest of my life, or have a baby.’
Brenda is sixteen. No-one in her family...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW- The Song of Lunch *****
The Song of Lunch starring Robert Bathurst and Rebecca Johnson, directed by Jason Morell, is a visual and auditory delight.
It is a lyrical verse...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – get your play delivered to your door
During this year’s Fringe, your’ doorstep could be transformed into a stage.
Deliveroo orders will be manned in the Scottish capital by actors who will...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Death, Dating and I Do
Written and performed by Paige Jennifer Barr and directed by Kira Simring. Presented by Nancy Manocherian’s the cell
Cancer killed her husband, she had her first one-night stand & now she’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW : A Fortunate Man***
What do we want when we visit a doctor? To be cured, but also – perhaps more importantly – to be listened to, to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Show Up, Kids!***
– Show Up, Kids!
If the main attraction doesn’t show
up, the kids still want to see a comedy show! So Pete’s gonna make
one up and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018: Opera Mouse*****
Children will love this show. Grown ups will love this show. Opera Mouse is a simple tale simply told – but told with such...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Lewis Schaffer: What Have You Heard?**
Lewis Schaffer: What Have You Heard?
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, until Aug 26
**
It's a bit awkward when you're asked to leave a show...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – No Kids****
No Kids
Pleasance Forth, until Aug 27
****
The Bristol-based Ad Infinitum, led by co-artistic directors Nir Paldi and George Mann, aims to create provocative and inspiring...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Triptych****
Triptych,
Sweet Grassmarket, until Aug 26
****
Three young women - friends one minute, enemies the next - unzip the competitive world of man-hunting, and of being...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – REVIEW – Joanne McNally: Wine Tamer *****
Dubliner Joanne McNally returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following her sell-out debut Bite Me in 2017 with a new show about life, dating and...
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW- Freeman ****
Freeman is a provocative collaboration between the writer Camilla Whitehill and the Strictly Arts theatre company. The performance casts light on six case studies,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW- The Approach *****
The Approach is a play that coaxes the audience in with its intimacy and yet, simultaneously, reveals a set of relationships which are as...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW : 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle****
‘I became the oldest when I was still the youngest’
Kate is a drama student. She’s good at stuff – she passes exams, gets auditions...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – Ashley Blaker: Observant Jew***
Ashley Blaker went the other way from Ari Shaffir. A secular Jewish TV producer, he became Britain's self-styled only strictly Orthodox Jewish comedian, a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – My Land*****
This is a breathtakingly beautiful, acrobatically stunning show that seeks to explore the links of seven Ukrainian circus artists to their troubled homeland.
On a...
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