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Tag: Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Fringe 2024 – Tit(s) for Tat ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Are we watching a play? A therapy session? A play within a play?
Tit(s) for Tat opens with Rosie (Katie Suitor, who's also the show's writer), an actor, welcoming the audience.
Her friend Ruby (Eva...
Fringe 2024 – The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Alphas, Betas and Chads!
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is a series of talks taking place monthly at The Stand. During Fringe 2024, however, we’re getting a bumper serving, with a grand total of forty-seven challenging topics on...
Fringe 2024 – The Spilling Cup ⭐⭐⭐⭐
It’s 2024. We can talk about anything now, can’t we?
Well yes and no. There are still some things that people don’t really discuss – or if they do it's only in the most oblique...
Fringe 2024 – In Conversation with Terry Christian
"Yesterday we had the Mayor of Greater Manchester in this room. Today we’ve got its king."
Neil Findlay is joking of course. Or maybe not. The former Labour MP is at The Stand to talk...
Fringe 2024 – The C Word ⭐⭐
There are some Fringe shows that appeal to all ages. It doesn’t matter if they’re performed by young or older people; their message comes across, their jokes land, and we all leave satisfied and...
Fringe 2024 – The Sun, the Mountain and Me⭐⭐⭐⭐
The inner critic. It’s the constant bugbear of most creatives. The writer who will never be Tolstoy or Shakespeare, the musician who will never be Bach or The Beatles. The painter who will never...
Fringe 2024: Darren McGarvey: Trauma Industrial Complex – Trauma and Oversharing in the Age...
Darren McGarvey had been talking about his Trauma Industrial Complex project at The Stand all week. Three of his events, including this one, had sold out.
At a time when more Fringe shows than...
Fringe 2024 – Brothers
Alcohlism. Anxiety. Arthritis.
You’d maybe not think a show about subjects like these would be the most uplifting. But you’d be wrong. Brothers, a new drama by Raised Voices Theatre, isn’t performed by seasoned actors,...
Fringe 2024 – Ariana vs Chomsky ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Which is more important, our principles or our personal relationships? Does it matter if those to whom we are closest don’t share our views? And if what we do has no immediate bearing on...
Fringe 2024 – Maeve and Howard ⭐⭐⭐
A desk, a typewriter, a side table for the bottles. Two chairs, one for Howard Moss (Ian Gledhill), the quiet, self-effacing poetry editor of The New Yorker, the other for Maeve Brennan (Carly Ann...
Fringe 2024 – Julie Flower: Grandma’s Shop ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 1989 an article appeared in The Guardian. Its title was ‘Shopping in the very worst possible taste.’
The journalist had visited a second hand shop in Sheffield’s Devonshire Street, in those days the home...
Fringe 2024 – MANikin ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
As a baby, Fraser Patterson is ‘bonny’. His Mum June is already a Type 2 Diabetic, so she’s not surprised when her newborn weighs in at over eleven pounds. But she’s fine with that,
‘A...
Fringe 2024 – History of a Heartbreak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ellen McNeill’s been putting this question to people on the Royal Mile, and she’s been overwhelmed by the response.
It seems that most of us have known that very particular pain of being dumped....
Fringe 2024: Polishing Shakespeare⭐⭐⭐⭐
Janet is a writer with student debts. Miss Branch directs a theatre that’s struggling for funds.
Enter Grant, e-commerce billionaire and the friendly face of capitalism. Or is he?
Grant wants the plays of Shakespeare ‘translated’...
Fringe 2024 – Tending ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
One was inspired by a TV programme about nurses saving babies in a war zone. One became a nurse because he realised that nurses had far more connection with patients and their families than...
Fringe 2024: Precious Cargo⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Barton Williams stands on stage in front of a wall of cardboard boxes. Footage of Vietnam plays against a soundtrack of war.
‘Everything in life comes at a price, whether or not it comes in...
Fringe 2024 – The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas – Food and Paracetamol
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is a series of debates taking place monthly at The Stand; during Fringe 2024, however, we’re getting a bumper serving, with a grand total of 47 challenging topics on...
Fringe 2024: In the Lady Garden ⭐⭐⭐
Alice is in a police station cell. She’s 69 years old and she’s mortified. Before we find out what she’s supposed to have done, she will tell us about her life and how it...
Fringe 2024 – Apricot ⭐⭐⭐
In June 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned the 1973 judgement in the case of Roe v Wade, which had for over forty years guaranteed women the right to an abortion until the point...
Fringe 2024 – Stuffed⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘This is a show about food banks. This is not a show about food.’
There are at least 3,000 food banks operating in the UK. In the single month of January 2024 Citizens’ Advice helped...
Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Pool (No Water)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) was written between 2005 and 2006. Almost twenty years later, Fuzed Theatre Company are staging it at this year’s Fringe. How does it hold up? Pretty well actually; its...
Fringe 2024 – The Sound Inside ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A woman stands alone on a stage. She has a story to tell and she knows how to tell it.
We are about to witness a strange and mystifying tale, one in which our perceptions...
Fringe 2024 – The Sound Inside ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A woman stands alone on a stage. She has a story to tell and she knows how to tell it.
We are about to witness a strange and mystifying tale, one in which our perceptions...
Fringe 2024 – Slow Burn ⭐⭐⭐
Yas’s boyfriend Chad is gaslighting her. He’s not replying to her messages and he’s turned his Snapchat location off.
Life isn’t going how she’d like it to, so instead she writes Fan Fiction -...
Fringe 2024 – A Little Treat ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It’s early March 2020, and Greg is living his life in New York City. He’s a singing-cycling tour guide. He has a small but perfect apartment that he loves.
And every night at 7 he...
Fringe 2024 – Jonny & the Baptists: The Happiness Index ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘This is a show about why we’re not happy and you’re not happy either.’
But wait! This is not an hour of doom and gloom; instead it’s the very funny Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers,...
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