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Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Cluster Art’s ‘Class of 22’
Join the ‘Class of 22’ in their current Scottish adventure. Fresh from down under, Australian collective Cluster Arts showcases 48 unique dancers, astonishing acrobats and charismatic characters at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
After three...
Fringe review – Dave Chawner Underdog ★★★
The stand-up comedian Dave Chawner has tackled weighty subjects such as anorexia, teenage mental illness and getting circumcised at 26 for health reasons in his five previous solo shows, so a piece about dogs...
Taste Australia House of Oz – final dinner on Monday – get your tickets...
The final Taste Australia House of Oz dinner takes place on Monday 22 August with musical powerhouse Michaela Burger.
The tables will be set in the beautiful theatre space at the House of Oz Fringe...
Review – Something About George ★★★
For Beatles fans wishing to delve deeper into the life of George Harrison and his back catalogue, this is a good place to start.
West End actor Daniel Taylor fronts this show with a...
Assembly Festival – Second Body’s ‘Concept for a Film’
Second Body return with two new pieces honouring the power in small acts of creativity and to shed light on social-political issues by fusing music, theatre and cutting-edge sciences.
'Concept for a Film' blends radical...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Garry Starr’s ‘Greece Lightning’
Garry Starr… The Myth… The Legend… returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an hour of award-winning, unpredictable and exuberant physical comedy for anyone and everyone with a heart, soul, and funny bone. No...
Fringe review – Swallowed ★★★★
This two-hander by young playwright Frances Colin is performed with such a smooth and natural rhythm by Lori Stott and Sam James Smith that you feel you’re eavesdropping on a real conversation.
The bare...
Tuesday Fringe recommendation- the Big Brain Tumour Benefit
One of the hottest tickets on the Fringe, fourth Big Brain Tumour Benefit will be held in Underbelly's biggest venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, McEwan Hall on Tuesday 16 August.
All of the box...
Assembly Festival – Alison Skilbeck – Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London
Alison Skilbeck's critically acclaimed one-woman show, and 2016 sell-out Edinburgh Fringe hit, reveals the public and private life of one of the most extraordinary women of the 20th Century, Eleanor Roosevelt, from her daring...
Assembly Festival – Soweto Gospel Choir
Winners of the 2019 Grammy award for Best World Music Album, Soweto Gospel Choir bring their Grammy-winning Freedom to Assembly Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Hailing from Soweto (South West Township), a town outside Johannesburg...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Classic’ – Hope Mill Theatre
The madcap comic play Classic! races through a multitude of classic novels at lightning speed in 60 minutes using some unlikely production styles.
Moby Dick becomes a sea shanty, Jane Eyre is a silent...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Kostya Benkovich – ‘The Suitcase’
International artist, Kostya Benkovich, who fled Russia because of his anti-war stance, first heard this phrase in March 2022 from an unknown lady at the Ministry of Integration in Petah Tikva, Israel. Her sad...
Assembly Festival – Masters of Choreography – ‘Beats on Pointe’ and ‘Wanderlust’
All the way over from Australia, Masters of Choreography is Australia's leading commercial dance theatre and production company. Headed up by Jennifer and Milo Masters, Masters of Choreography have firmly established themselves as a...
Fringe recommendation – Simon Munnery Trials and Tribulations
Twenty years ago, in Edinburgh, comedian Simon Munnery was arrested for “being a German in a built-up area”. It wasn’t an early brush with ‘cancel culture’ but it did lead to a trial.
For the first time,...
Fringe – get along to this show and be cleansed by Myra DuBois
Myra DuBois is giving the world of self-help the enema it so desperately needs!
Come and be cleansed!
We caught a few minutes of her razor sharp comedy at the Underbelly launch, and it appears you would...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Theatre Trust Opening
The Pleasance are back with a bang and launching things in their usual grand style. The opening gala saw nine fantastic acts - from the over 250 shows making up this year’s programme -...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Peppa Pig – My First Concert
From Mozart to Muddy Puddles! 'Peppa Pig – My First Concert' is a fun interactive introduction to a live orchestra with everyone's favourite Pig family!
Join Peppa as she discovers an orchestra for the first...
Fringe – Assembly is back – with a health warning about the future
It was a rather subdued and reflective William Burdett-Coutts, the founder of Assembly, who took to the stage at the Assembly Gala launch last night.
Certainly he was less direct than MC Reuben Kaye...
EICC gives hundreds of Fringe tickets to local charities
EICC and their Festival Fringe partner, The Pleasance Theatre Trust, create a community ticket distribution scheme, along with catering partner Leith’s to offer complimentary refreshments
The initiative will provide hundreds of Fringe tickets to local...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Tropicana’ – Aidan Sadler
Join queer cabaret icon and performance tour-de-force Aidan Sadler as they take you on the award-winning journey to Tropicana!
Dandelion Cube Bike Tour, Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
2nd August 2022
© 2022 J.L. Preece
Nothing is safe from ridicule...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Caligari’ – ChewBoy Productions
'Caligari' reimagines the 1920 seminal German film ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, with a cast of five actor-musicians taking the stage to tell the victims’ stories of their brutal murders at the hands of...
Fringe – re:ACTION
Since the early 2000s, it’s been a rite of passage for theatre and stagecraft students at Denver School of the Arts (DSA) to travel to Edinburgh every four years and put on a show...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Good Grief’ – Ugly Bucket
A recipient of New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly’s hit-making Untapped Award, supported by Methuen Drama, 'Good Grief' is a cathartic reckoning with death and grief through a kinetic maelstrom of outrageous clowning, powerful and...
The Ecstasy of Victoria Woodhull – first woman to run for US President
She was the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872 – before women even had the vote.
This absorbing play is inspired by Victoria Woodhull’s remarkable life, which tells of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – ‘Classic’ – Hope Mill Theatre
The madcap comic play Classic! races through a multitude of classic novels at lightning speed in 60 minutes using some unlikely production styles.
Moby Dick becomes a sea shanty, Jane Eyre is a silent...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Lost in Translation’s ‘Hotel Paradiso’
Lost in Translation present an irresistibly colourful, loud and fun show for all the family. LiT are one of the UK’s leading contemporary circus companies and Guinness World Record holders.
With thrillingly spectacular circus skills,...
Fringe 2022 – The Road to Ballina
The Road to Ballina is the true story of King Crimson singer Jakko Jakszyk and his journey to discover his real family.
The work is directed by Michael Attenborough, and is a moving, sometimes...
Carol Tambor Award for Fringe show ‘The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much’
Voloz Collective’s 'The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much' has been named as a winner of the Carol Tambor Incentive Award 2022. The New-York based fund was designed to encourage new writing and...
Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2022 – judging panel announced
Producer Nica Burns, Director of Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards has announced the names of those appointed to the judging panel for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The panel will be made up of:
Adnan Ahmed, Chair: Producer,...
High-octane Bowie-inspired circus
Rock ’n’ roll rebel, David Bowie, is celebrated in a glittering glam rock circus show jam-packed with acrobatics, and aerials, with a live band pumping out phenomenal music from across his 50-year career.
Rebel, at...
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