Tag: Edinburgh FEstival Fringe 2023

The winners of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards which is the highest honour at the Fringe have been announced.The winner for Sky Best Comedy Show has been won by Ahir ShahUrooj Ashfaq has...

A Bloody DelightSad-Vents is not a play about making its audience feel comfortable. And maybe that’s exactly why you ought to see this tragicomedy dripping with talent this Fringe. As audiences arrive at the Underbelly’s...

Comic legend Eddie Izzard has helped to create a new limited-edition gin to support artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Izzard's collaboration with Edinburgh Gin will raise funds for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society to...

When you see a Michelle Brasier show you can be guaranteed of two things: you will laugh and you will feel.This is the unique talent of a comedian whose act is as much...

There’s lots of comedy and visual humour in Silent Faces Theatre Company’s Godot is a Woman, but this is a clever, slick and entertaining show which conveys a serious message.Why are people so keen...

Tom Robinson shot to fame in the late 1970s when the (‘modestly named’) Tom Robinson Band had hits with 2-4-6-8 Motorway and Glad to Be Gay.Over 40 years later he’s still going strong, still...

The line-up for Mervyn Stutter’s special charity gala on Monday 21 August has been announced. Mervyn’s gala celebrates three decades of Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe, the legendary showcase that presents a curated mix of Fringe picks,...

Luminescence, a collaboration between the visual artist Maria Rud and saxophonist Tommy Smith, opened in St Giles’ Cathedral on Thursday night as part of the Fringe.It is completely improvised in the moment – Smith...

It’s not exactly clear if Kurt Cobain did meet Thora Hird when he appeared at BBC studios back in November 1991 just as Nirvana had become a cultural phenomenon performing Smells Like Teen Spirit...

Jack Docherty takes us back to Edinburgh in the 1970s to Carrick Knowe and “love across the divide” with the subject of his unrequited affection Eleanor. In many ways, David Bowie became a passport...

Shahar Marom told us about his Fringe show, the Machine Man Spectacle at the Hill Street Theatre.He explains: " I try to answer seven questions by using seven machines that were built especially...

Rupert Bevan delivers a powerhouse performance in Darling Boy, a one-man show exploring longing, love and loneliness in a queer coming of age story that is both poignant and mesmerising.It charts a young...

A play which will be premiered at this year's Fringe has input from 50 nurses who have shared their experiences working in the NHS.All contributors are anonymous but their stories have resulted in...

In Alison Skilbeck’s Uncommon Ground we are introduced to seven characters, all of whom frequent an unnamed common every day during the Covid lockdowns. Skilbeck portrays each of the characters – female and male...

In After Shakespeare, Lexi Wolfe imagines the lives of four of the Bard's characters after their plays have ended.What happened to them? And why?If this all sounds a little Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, it’s...

When I was a student, many years ago, I saw an amateur dramatisation of Susie Orbach’s groundbreaking book Fat is a Feminist Issue.I felt so seen that I still remember it now. Back...

Saskia Solomons's highly stylised show about money is very much a performance in need of an audience.Dressed in a golden body-hugging tunic, designed by the Italian tailor Antoinetta Gambino, with a bodice containing a...

Edinburgh musician Paul Chamberlain and his duo partner Michael Haywood are looking forward to making their return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a concert on Friday 11 August.Last year, Paul received a life-saving...

Faith is a member of the Edinburgh Festival of The Sacred Arts committee, who, with friend Peter Holloway, are putting on a drama production which will see a contemporary twist on Twelfth Century ‘The...

Some of the best storytellers and performers will be part of the Fringe show at the Storytelling Centre this August talking about climate, queerness, friendship and nature.There will also be two productions from the...

The play Arthur Miller would write after getting kicked in the head by a horseDeath of a Salesman. Our Town. A Streetcar Named Desire. And now, Bad Play. American sketch comedy group Big Tobacco...

It's time to get out the bunting as the multi award winning poet celebrates 25 years on the literary frontline.In this year of coronations and joy what better time to celebrate the Silver Jubilee...

The Rose Theatre will pop up again for this year's Fringe under the organisation of the Soundhouse live music charity and Edinburgh-based Bellfield Brewery.The venue had been mothballed pending sale, but over 25 days...

Actors preparing for this year’s Fringe picked a fitting location to make an appearance in full Jacobite costume: North Leith Churchyard, where the heroine of their play Colonel Anne lies buried.Anne Farquharson Mackintosh defied...

Twilight Theatre Company in association with New Jersey Repertory Company presents a powerful journey through a family's legacy and America's history of injustice.This summer, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will witness the premiere of The...

The Orange Works, a Kent based theatre company, are returning to the Fringe with Locusts, a timely play about conversion practices and the belief that you can pray the gay away.Spoiler warning –...

Women have always faced exploitation in the workplace – back in the 1920s Sara Wesker was a trade unionist, activist and radical who battled for change. Largely forgotten today, her name and story deserve to...

Two clown friends plan to put on a show but Dede goes off the idea – can Tibeh get him to change his mind? Canadian “masters of slapstick” (The Scotsman) and multiple international award-winners Les Foutoukours make a...

Mad or just angry – she’s certainly alone. Jazz icon Zelda Fitzgerald is locked up in a mental hospital and has just hours to live. Award-winning actress Catherine D. DuBord and Texan director Lydia Mackay...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has published details of a new app, which will be available just before this year's festival.Last year there was a great deal of outcry when the Fringe eventually admitted it was...