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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Nikotine***
Nikotine
Venue 29, Paradise in the Vault
Nikolai Nikotine has few pleasures in life: his pet mouse, dreams and ambitions which have gone unfulfilled, and cigarettes....
Fringe competition for reviewers
Allen Wright Award 2012
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has opened submissions for this year’s Allen Wright Award. This award was established fourteen years ago to...
Fringe Chair steps down
After 17 years as Chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Baroness Elizabeth Smith of Gilmorehill has formally stepped down at the Society’s Annual...
Fringe performers to show support for Russian punk band
Edinburgh Festival Fringe performers are planning to participate in global day of action on behalf of feminist Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, currently on trial, facing 7 year...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Blind ****
The Blind
Venue 311, Old College Quad
As the sun begins to set and the audience gathers round the atmospheric Old College Quad, brightly dressed women...
Sixth Avenue Traffic Rock Whistlebinkies for the Festival
Tuesday night saw Glasgow band Sixth Avenue Traffic play Whistlebinkies in Niddry Street during this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe and played a storming set.
I first saw the band...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Sophie Shadow ***
Sophie Shadow
Venue 29, Paradise in the Vault, Merchant Street
Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre may be young, but this is their fifth year on the Fringe...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Pinocchio – Adventures in the Metropolis **
Pinocchio: Adventures in the Metropolis
theSpace @ Venue45
ReShape Theatre's update on Pinocchio promises "stunning lifelike puppetry, moving urban sets and engrossing digital soundscapes." It's a...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Night of the Big Wind ****
Night of the Big Wind
Venue 61, Underbelly, Cowgate
This year is only the second time on the Fringe for Little Cauliflower but already this young company...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Girl with no Heart ****
Sparkle and Dark's Travelling Players
Bedlam Theatre
11b Bristo Place
Puppetry (PG) 55 mins
Anyone Who Has A Heart, Should Look At This.
Supported by The Japan Foundation, and...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Letter of Last Resort/Good With People ****
It’s Britain’s shadowy nuclear deterrent, and in particular Scotland’s role in maintaining it, that’s the fragile yet potent theme binding this duo of plays...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Turn of the Screw****
The Turn of the Screw
Venue 82, Zoo Southside
Henry James' classic The Turn of the Screw is one of the great ghost stories, a psychological...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Review Slapdash Galaxy *****
Bunk Puppets & Scamp Theatre.
Underbelly, Cowgate. Venue 61. 50mins
Comedy, Puppetry.
Listen kids! Already gluten-free gorged on all things worthy your parents have dragged you to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe review Man Feelings****
Laughing Horse Free Festival/Mechanical Tiger Productions
Jekyll & Hyde, Hanover Street
Comedy (14+)
It is showtime for free at The Jekyll & Hyde, the Old Reekie shlock-goth...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Lady M *****
Het Vijfde Bedrijf - The Fifth Act
(The Netherlands)
Edinburgh College Of Art Venue 50.
1hr5mins, PG
Being all things the antithesis of a society hostess, Lady MacBeth,...
Edinburgh Fringe Interview: Jeff Achtem
Since first arriving on the Fringe in 2009, Jeff Achtem has built a solid reputation for innovative and visually arresting family theatre. Appearing this...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – La Clique Royale*****
If like some of us you really don't know what to choose from the biblically proportioned Fringe Guide, then this is possibly the very...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – 4.48 Psychosis ****
Fourth Monkey
theSpace on Niddry St
Drama/Physical Theatre
1hr5mins (Age 14+ guidance)
A disturbing transition confronted the audience as an unsettling sense of detached discomfort and observational intrusion...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Feet don’t fail me now
These guys were just ripping the stage apart at Parliament Square today with their live music and rapid-fire tap dancing, attracting us to them....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Bristol Revunions
Bristol Revunions are a lovely bunch of people who we met on the Royal Mile earlier. They are performing Destination Adventure which relates the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Trojan Women
We recorded a little snippet of this show by Lancaster Offshoots on the Royal Mile today to offer you a flavour of what you...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Billy the Mime ****
Billy the Mime
Venue 88, Just the Tonic at the Caves
If you believe some subjects are too serious to joke about, then Billy the Mime...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man? ****
Macbeth: Who is That Bloodied Man?, Teatr Biuro Podrozy
Venue 311, Old College Quad
No venue in Edinburgh is better suited to epic-scale physical theatre than the...
Get your Fringe cupcakes at Cuckoo’s
Cuckoo’s Bakery have a scrumptious range of summer cupcakes
While Summer 2012 in the UK probably won’t be remembered for scorching hot weather (certainly not...
Edinburgh Reporter Radio Round Table
We were actually sitting at a rectangular table upstairs in Hemma on Holyrood Road, but the idea was to discuss what we had seen...
Susan Calman at the Underbelly
My one and only previous Fringe show was going to Tynecastle to watch a Hibs / Hearts select play Bayern Munich in the eighties,...
Fringe on the street is a hit!
We sent our reluctant Fringe goer Barry out on the streets to see if he might be tempted to like the Fringe...
Today saw the...
Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Jonny Woo: Wonder Woo-Man
Jonny Woo:Wonder Woo-Man, Assembly Festival
Venue 3, Assembly George Square
Jonny Woo takes to the stage in crystal-encrusted stilettoes, a huge hat bristling with ostrich feathers,...
Preview – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Man Feelings Venue 259 Jekyll & Hyde
Man Feelings, Laughing Horse Free Festival
Venue 259, Jekyll & Hyde
'Ari Porter' Exposes Edinburgh-Born Comedians’ Conspiratorial Cunning Plan To Snook A Cock At The Suffocating...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is nearly here…..
It is almost Fringe time. Easy to tell if you are walking the city centre streets as you can see here.
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