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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Births Deaths Marriages ***
by Michael Casey
We always admire young people who come up to the Edinburgh Festival with an ambitious play.
The play chronicled the crossroads that four...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Pip Utton Playing Maggie ****
by Michael Casey
There were people in the midday show, who had seen his Churchill and his Hitler and were now going for the hat-trick.
They...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Rossetti’s Women ****
by Michael Casey
Performed by Julia Munrow at the Merchants' Hall, Hanover St
The three lovers of Pre-Raphaelite painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti are portrayed with an...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Kafka’s Ape by Infinitheatre ****
by Michael Casey
A dark fable that centres on the story (originally by Franz Kafka) of an ape who, after being captured, learns to speak...
Esther’s #Finhugger campaign to #KeepFinAlive!
The Edinburgh Reporter met Esther earlier today who is single-handedly running a campaign to get as many selfies with celebrities here in Edinburgh as...
Edinburgh Festival 2015: Revel like a Local
Here's a lovely idea!
Marriott Hotels Edinburgh have been working on a new project which aims to showcase a few of their favourite local businesses – the places where...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Adam Hills “Clown Heart”****
“Death gets the last laugh, so you might as well get in quick and have as much fun as possible.”
That’s the philosophy that Adam...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – opening today – Broken Biscuits
Today the award winning drama from Liverpool Broken Biscuits opens today and runs until 29 August. The new drama has already had two complete sell out runs in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – The Man *****
Set on London’s famous Speakers' Corner, The Man is a powerful, satirical monologue which deconstructs the vast array of contradictions in our society. The...
Letter from Scotland
Every night I hear the curfew – after which all good Edinburgh citizens should be in bed. But the fireworks at the end of...
Five things you need to know today!
Parking in the city
Broomhouse Community Shop need a bookkeeper
There will be fireworks
Festival tip of the Day
Edinburgh to Helsinki
Since the spring of this year council officers...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 Review – Hardeep Singh Kohli **
Hardeep Singh Kohli’s show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is tagged ‘Big Mouth Strikes Again’. The blurb on the Fringe website states ‘The Fringe’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – REVIEW – Chris Betts – Social Animal ***
Chris Betts-Social Animal is an hour of insightful observations gained from years of working behind a bar. The Canadian comedian delivers a clever and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Le Haggis lean on Edinburgh Rugby’s Simon
Edinburgh folk are being invited to polish up their party pieces in a campaign to find new talent fit for a top Fringe cabaret...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – SANCTUARY
HEARTBREAK STORIES BEHIND SOLDIERS’ THANK-YOU NOTES
An actress has written a play about the impact of war on women – after receiving heart-wrenching letters from soldiers...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Adam Hess-Salmon ****
Adam Hess-Salmon offers his audience an hour of brilliant quick-witted observational humour mixed with embarrassing stories from an effeminate childhood.
He uses a list which he has...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Tony Law – Frillemorphesis ****
Tony Law doesn’t abide by stand-up comedy rules. His is a show full of skilful, absurd riffs that leave you wondering how he does...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Robin Ince “Reality Tunnels *****
Robin Ince, the self- styled ‘Renaissance Idiot’ returns to Edinburgh fringe with new one-off show “Reality Tunnels”. Ince is taking a break from his...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW — Dandy Darkly’s Trigger Happy *****
In 2013’s Gory Hole and 2014’s Pussy Panic, New York’s catty storyteller of terror, Dandy Darkly, racked up an awesome body count and an...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW: Every Brilliant Thing *****
A play about suicide attempts and depression could be fairly dark and sad but this is an hour spent in the company of a...
Five things you need to know today Edinburgh!
Pedal for Scotland
Fringe Tip of the Day
Edinburgh Arab Festival 2015
Just Festival
Edible Estates
Cyclists are revving up for Pedal for Scotland 2015.
Around 7,000 people on bikes...
Five things you need to know today!
Granton on Sea
Fringe Tip of the Day
The Two Hour Marathon
Rugby fixtures
Leith Walk By-Election
Granton on Sea or Granton Sur Mer to give it its Sunday...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015: David Latto *****
The Scots seem to do Americana very well. Perhaps we are naturally drawn to the country, blues and roots of the American working classes,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 Just Festival 2015 : After Freedom***
'You were oppressed: I am free'
Apartheid is history; the youth of South Africa want to get on with their lives - but should they...
Stellar Quines wins Fringe First for new writing
Scotland’s Stellar Quines are delighted to announce that The Deliverance, the final play in Jennifer Tremblay’s powerful and evocative trilogy, translated by Shelley Tepperman and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Honest to Godley *****
by Craig Todd
Those who know of Janey Godley’s work knew what they would get.
Foul-mouthed, rude and abrasive, fans loved what she had to say...
Boxsmall Market to host Fringe preview shows
Enjoy children’s shows at Boxsmall Market’s ShowBox
Boxsmall Market will be hosting previews of Edinburgh Festival Fringe children’s shows at its ShowBox where families will...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Lynn Ruth Miller: Get A Grip ***
It is very hot in Studio 5 of C venues: C Nova.
'Anyone who falls asleep, I forgive them...this is going to turn into a...
Edinburgh Festival fringe – The Hogwallops at The Circus Hub
With the weather cooperating for the last few days, The Lafayette tent at The Circus Hub in the Meadows was finally ready to welcome...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Joanna Neary: Faceful of Issues ****
Joanna Neary’s 2015 show ‘Faceful of Issues’ continues her tradition of basing her comedy shows around colourful characters. This year she becomes the delightfully...
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