Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Rob Auton: The Hair Show
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Rob Auton: The Hair Show
'The Hair Show is an exploration into the importance of appearance and how people react to someone who looks like he has...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Bob Slayer’s Heroes of Fringe
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Bob Slayer's Heroes of Fringe
'Heroes’ biggest line up ever brings together critically-acclaimed award winners with some of comedy’s most exciting and creative up and coming talents.'
Known...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017
Unholy Mess in association with Omnibus Theatre presents Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea, a strange, funny and poignant play about the self we present to the world and the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Seven Crazy Bitches
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Seven Crazy Bitches
Seven Crazy Bitches asks the question: ‘What’s it like to be a female dog in a dog eat dog man’s world?’ And provides the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Goose Amphetawaltz
Adam Drake (Writer/Performer) graduated from Cambridge Footlights in 2012. He has been a regular face at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2009 both as a Performer, Writer and Director. He created, directed and co-wrote...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – More Gefilte Fish & Chips
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 - More Gefilte Fish and Chips
'If Bunuel had been Jewish, born in Leeds and been an admirer of Jake Thackray, this is what he might have sounded...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – An Arrangement of Shoes
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – An Arrangement of Shoes
'How do we begin to remember those that are no longer with us? Do we arrange their history, their memories, their photographs....Or do...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – THE END, THE END, THE END…
A new international multimedia ensemble from seven countries and across America ritualizes their exile experience in the United States. The result is a defiant theatrical collage that enlists the audience in a revolution for...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – 100 Ways to Tie a Shoe-Lace
Forget about the Dog Theatre Company bring a comedic and imaginative take on the realigning of one person’s mind. Plunged into a world of confusion, she’ll have to confront her situation if she’s going...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Katsura Sunshine: Rakugo!
The first Western Rakugo Master, Katsura Sunshine, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe following a sell-out shown last year with a new one-hour show of Japanese comic storytelling – in English! With only a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – A Fayre Tale
“Brontë for the 21st century?”
As a failing theatre company rehearse the old time classic, Jane Eyre, complex desires within a love triangle emerge reflecting the timelessness of Brontë’s themes.
The Brontë Actors present Priscilla Berringer’s...
Queen of the F*cking World – Marysia Trembecka
Never be a Princess – be the Queen
Don’t ever be a princess – be queen of your own f*cking world. Join Marysia Trembecka and her wild bass guitar on an audience-empowering ride through the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – how much are the tickets?
The Edinburgh Reporter heard from one of our readers, Robert Terry, who was concerned about proposed booking fees that the Fringe are charging this summer.
Mr Terry is a long time Fringe supporter who has...
#Walkthewalk Moonwalkers have now raised £20 million
If you were out and about late last night you might have been forgiven for thinking you were seeing things. You were.
The Moonwalk Scotland was taking place and before it even started the charity...
70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe promises a riotous Assembly
This year Assembly celebrates 70 years of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with its biggest programme yet – over 200 shows from 12 countries in 26 temporary performance spaces across five different sites - including a...
2017 Fringe Schools Poster winners announced
Three young artists from across Scotland have been announced as the winners of the 2017 Fringe Schools Poster Competition supported by Virgin Money.
Revealed today, at a special Fringe prize-giving celebration at Dynamic Earth in...
Special day helps mark 70 years of the Edinburgh Fringe
Plans for the inaugural World Fringe Day involving more than 200 fringes across the planet have been announced for Tuesday 11 July 2017.
The day will reflect on the collective power and worldwide reach of the...
First Fringe tickets go on sale today!
Last year over 2.4 million tickets were issued for 50,266 Fringe performances of 3,269 shows at 294 venues across the city. This year the Fringe runs from 4-28 August 2017.
Here are some of those we...
Edinburgh festivals – 70 years of culture
As a reminder that this year marks the 70th anniversary year of Edinburgh festivals the overarching body EdinburghFestivals.com has produced a video to remind us what we might have seen in the past, and...
More funding for festivals in their 70th year
The Scottish Government has confirmed a further £300,000 of funding to the Edinburgh festivals to help them celebrate their 70th year.
The various festivals were founded in 1947 and it will be appropriate to mark...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – Mogwai Play Atomic ****
It seemed appropriate to conclude the Festival with Mogwai performing the OST to Mark Cousin’s film, Atomic, live.
Subtitled Living in Dread and Promise, Cousins' film nods to the work of Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi films, an archival...
Fringe figures all add up to a great year
All the companies who organise various venues have been getting in touch with us today to tell us their good news. It is clear that this year has been outstanding for everyone involved with...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Entrails by Parachute Dance***
Entrails is the debut dance piece from emerging company Parachute Dance. As the name implies it is anything but an easy watch, though this is by no means a criticism.
Directed and choreographed by Roisin...
Edinburgh International Culture Summit 2016 ends with call to save heritage endangered by war
The Edinburgh International Culture Summit took place between 24-26 August 2016 at Holyrood. Discussions centred around the 40 cultural delegations who listened to over 60 speakers from around the world talking about issues which...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Review: Mark Watson’s Edinborolympics *****
It’s late on the final Friday of the Fringe and a trio of comedians have been invited to compete in the coveted Edinborolympics, a test of physical and mental (oh boy, it’s definitely mental!)...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Review: Andrew Maxwell – Slight Return *****
Andrew Maxwell returns to Edinburgh – at the insistence of his young daughter – to deliver a wonderfully humorous take on the world at large in one of the favourites of the Fringe this...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: People of the Eye *****
As the Fringe draws gradually to its close, it seems apt to reflect on the highs and lows of this unique month. Those of us lucky enough to live in Edinburgh will perhaps be looking forward...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW — McCleary and Blair Panda to the Audience *****
Ross McCleary and Andrew Blair seem to have hit upon the secret of putting on a successful PBH Free Fringe show. People may not care much about poetry, but Edinburgh loves a panda.
Or as Andrew...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Felicity Ward: 50% More Likely to Die ****
Well... 60 minutes at 100mph with Felicity Ward is one hell of a show to keep up with to carry out a concise review!
The Australian, who graces the stage dressed like she's ready for...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : The Pajama Men 2 Man 3 Musketeers ****...
Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers has enjoyed many a different interpretation over the years; none, however, will be quite as memorable as the latest offering by Albuquerque's finest comedy duo, The Pajama Men.
Armed only with...
