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Whisky on the Fringe
For the first time, The Scotch Whisky Experience has joined the line-up of the Edinburgh Fringe, hosting a one-off series of events that offer festival-goers the opportunity to broaden their horizons in a more...
Hot Tickets for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012
by Julie Dawson
Hot off the press, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012 programme is bigger and better than ever. Among its (nearly) 400 pages there is bound to be a show to suit every taste,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012: the weird and the wonderful
Maybe 'weird and wonderful' isn't quite the correct description, but nestling in among the big names and big productions are hidden gems of exotic, eccentric offerings that you might overlook in this year's might...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012 launched today
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe was launched today, unveiling a huge 376-page brochure with 2,695 shows, over 42,000 performances involving more than 22,000 individual performances and 279 venues. That’s 6% more shows than the Fringe...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: McNeil and Pamphilon (***)
This comedy sketch show by Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon was a show that had some of the audience laughing and loving it whilst others, like the reviewer, did not seem to understand the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Invisible Show II (****)
If you’ve ever been tempted to eavesdrop on the conversations of fellow festival-goers, this show is for you. Handed a pair of headphones, you’re sent out into the crowded Pleasance Courtyard where you try...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Hotel Methuselah (***)
It’s not so much the what as the how with this intriguing show by UK-based theatre company Imitating the Dog and theatre maker Pete Brooks. It’s a startlingly effective combination of film and live...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Mr Ken Dee (***)
Mr Ken Dee is a drag queen with an immense amount of experience, who at the time of the review was hampered with an unfortunate set of circumstances. The one night all the other...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Classics at Greyfriars (*****)
There’s something of a festival within a festival happening this year, as Greyfriars Kirk hosts two remarkable concert series as part of the Fringe. Early in the evening, Welsh pianist Llyr Williams performs the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Butler did it!
Actually the butler will do anything....
The Reporter was doing some roving photography on Saturday on The Royal Mile and chanced upon Fletcher the Butler. Here he is in all his glory and we are...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Andrew Doyle – A Crash Course in Depravity (****)
Andrew Doyle's show is one heck of a good laugh and in fact the reviewer's jaw muscles felt well stretched for at least 2 hours after the show! The one-liners keep coming and he is...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: A Slow Air (****)
The fact that the two actors, Kathryn and Lewis Howden, who play the brother and sister in David Harrower’s quietly gripping new two-hander are themselves siblings, only adds to the piece’s intensity.
It’s a tale...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Paper Tom (*****)
Sometimes you just have to go away from the gaggle of central Fringe venues to find a real gem of a drama; Paper Tom is one of those. It deals with the tales of...
Free things to do at Edinburgh Festival on a Monday with a seven year...
One of our readers wants to know what they can do on Monday with a seven year old at the Festival and for free.....
So here are our suggestions:-
You might want to start off in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Wheel (***)
Zinnie Harris’s epic drama crosses several centuries and brings up a host of themes – but it left me rather perplexed. Opening in 19th-century Spain, where preparations for a wedding are brutally interrupted when...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Man of Valour (****)
It’s the astonishing performance by Paul Reid that really carries this one-man show. White-faced and wide-eyed, he’s Farrell, a corporate drone contending with the daily grind of commuting and irritating colleagues, but in his...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Lili La Scala – Songs to make you Smile (****)
Lili is a talented singer who specialises in the songs of the first half of the Twentieth Century from the composers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Ivor Novello. She has a clear,...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Review – The Curse of the Devil’s Verse (*****)
The Curse of the Devil’s Verse.
Sheep Soup (in association with The Television Workshop)
Soco Venue 348, Chambers Street.
Beer monster Rob’s immature, ego-centric cod-philosophy on life is in near terminal conflict with his very attractive and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Ten Plagues
Star rating: ****
The big question was always going to be whether the Traverse Theatre’s starry collaboration between playwright Marc Ravenhill and singer Marc Almond would actually succeed as a true piece of theatre. It’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – W.R.E.N.S
W.R.E.N.S.
Venue 18. Sweet Grassmarket: City 1 Apex City Hotel.
Without a doubt one of the hot-ticket certainties for this year’s Fringe has to be the quaintly named Tiny Teapot Theatre's production of Edinburgh born, ex-Wren,...
Corn Exchange Ireland premiere Man of Valour at Traverse
Farrell Blinks is an office drone with an overactive fantasy gland. His imagined, heroic adventures offer violent release from the pressures and boredom of his ordinary life - until the border between fantasy and...
Father and Son in a spin at the Festival
A father is performing at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe while his son is producing an entirely different kind of show at the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival.
The father is none other than Mick Groves, one...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe preview – The W.R.E.N.S Need You: An Edinburgh Rendezvous.
At Venue 18, Sweet Grassmarket, City 1, August 4/28th, the engagingly alliterative Tiny Teapot Theatre ensemble premier Edinburgh born playwright, Anne McGravie’s, compelling drama ‘Wrens’ (Women’s Royal Navy Service). The production, drawing on McGravie's personal...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe preview – Sharon King and The Reckless Angels
Sharon King started tuning up for her Fringe show by supporting fellow musicians `Blueflint `at the Leith Dockers` Club on Friday night. Sharon has a great voice and her short set was relaxed and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe preview – Company Chameleon
Company Chameleon will be returning to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year to perform an extract from their show Rites at Dance Base and an outdoor performance of Search and Find.
Company Chameleon have been busy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe : Fiona Kennedy presents The Kist
Singer, broadcaster and producer, Fiona Kennedy, is staging her new production, The Kist at this year's Fringe. Kennedy is however well accustomed to the stage, as she has been singing and performing since she...
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