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Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Price (still) includes Biscuits
One for the diary is Birmingham-based humourist Naomi Paul's show, Price (Still) Includes Biscuits.
Naomi uses her characteristic dry Jewish humour to comment on contemporary...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – The Sister
Surreal, powerful and dark, The Sister is a tale of love and domestic horror.
The story is wrapped around Colleen who to, the rest of...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe
In 1992, after five years of performing his hugely popular comedy and song shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, satirical songwriter, comedian, actor, scriptwriter and...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – I Got Superpowers For My Birthday
Start with a puzzle, a brother and a sister were born on the same day, but they are not twins! *
Meanwhile, The Edinburgh Reporter...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Für Elise
Promising a warm, funny and inventive mime set in Paris, Für Elise opens against a background of beautiful music, French voiceover (err, it is...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – The Bookbinder
The Bookbinder is a dark and mysterious one-man show set in a bookbinder’s workshop, brought to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by the award-winning New...
Our Pick of the Festival Fringe 2016 – An Evening with C S Lewis
AN EVENING WITH C.S. LEWIS (My Life’s Journey) is a solo show based on the life and writings of C.S. Lewis.
This heart-warming, humorous and...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – The Fool
In an imaginary future, the State’s most popular live show is reaching its grand finale. Three candidates, condemned by Kevin’s Bill, are trying their...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Pizza Delique – A Play
"Pizza Delique" focuses on the pervasive issue of rape and sexual abuse, a persistent undercurrent within our society that, we believe, has been underrepresented...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – I Love Ursula Hamdress
I love Ursula Hamdress is a performance on feminine identity, inspired by the lecture of The Sexual Politics of Meat, by Carol Adams. Ursula...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Tagged
Crimes committed by young women have been increasing. No longer the fairer sex, girls are beginning to catch up with boys for breach of...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Notflix
Notflix is an entirely improvised comedy musical based around spoofing the sinister algorithm used by Netflix in order to make suggestions for movies...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Ronnie and Jonny: Friends Disunited
Even at their peak, stand-up comedy duo Ronnie and Jonny were mediocre at best. But at least they were friends. When they had a...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – They Built It. No One Came
‘Neither of us were very charismatic. That was a problem.’
This play is based on the true-life story of two very eccentric American individuals whose...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Wonderman
This being Roald Dahl’s centenary year where better than the Edinburgh Fringe to celebrate his anarchic, creative genius?
Gagglebabble & National Theatre Wales with Wales...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – You Tweet My Face Space
You Tweet My Face Space is a satirical comedy that captures the modern day obsession with social media and the consequences of having your entire...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs...
When Flinn, Pearl and Tom are in the middle of their school play, their old nemesis, Mr T the T-Rex, appears and kidnaps the...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Dead Awaken
New American songwriting team Brian Carbine and Preston Butler III present their debut concert drama - a re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken,...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
Basil, Sybil and Manuel are heading back to Edinburgh, ready to serve some fine dining in the form of a 3-course meal, Faulty style....
Our pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Paper Hearts the Musical
Liam O’Rafferty’s world premier Paper Hearts has the endearing if not daringly kitsch me quick naïf strapline - ‘A High Street Musical’. A giddy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk
Former Scottish Comedian of the Year and hailed as a master storyteller, Scott Agnew’s 2016 Fringe show tells of how gay sex went a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Scott Gibson in “Life After Death”
In the summer of 2009, Scott Gibson returned from a friend’s stag weekend and his brain exploded. He had suffered a massive brain haemorrhage....
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – NewsRevue
This year’s show is unmissable. Nobody is safe: politicians and celebrities alike come under fire in a turbo-charged barrage of bladder-threateningly funny songs and...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Isle of Edna: G Street
Up-and-coming comedy duo Isle of Edna invite Edinburgh Festival-goers to become residents of the gentrified G Street.
There’s nothing worse than being caught short, thinking...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Suzanna Gonzo: Dark Lady
Suzanna Gonzo is an absurd variety act of infectious charm. Originally from Texas, Gonzo began as an entertainer on cruise ships, but when she...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Gareth’s tips on how to enjoy it
Gareth Drummond is the concierge at Macdonald Holyrood Hotel and has been a member of the illustrious Les Clefs d'Or (Society of Golden Keys)...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Blood Will Have Blood
Blood Will Have Blood uses audio-immersive technology to put the audience at the heart of the story. You become children, lost in the brutal...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Desiree Burch: “This is Evolution”
Desiree Burch brings her debut stand-up hour, exploring sex, drugs, body image, religion – and a personality that has led to an embarrassingly prolonged...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Beards! Beards! Beards!
From Charles Darwin to Confucius, from Rasputin to Karl Marx, it is said that the secret to greatness is all in the size and...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Confetti
A troubled young painter pours himself so deeply into his work that he can no longer discern fantasy from reality. Ambrose Cappuccio, Artistic Director of Sublevel Theater...
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