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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Gwlad y Ddraig, Land Of The Dragon ...
The stage is set with an inquisitive, wooly sheep gently tugging and baaing at her carer’s leash. She is shrewdly assessing the suitability of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Cautionary Tales for Daughters *****
'I am an ordinary Mum,
To bouts of paranoia I regularly succumb'
Well, don't we all? In fact, never mind bouts....for most mothers perma-panic comes with...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Ferdinand
Turn to nearly any page of the Fringe programme and you will see monsters, madmen, mayhem and destruction; stories of abuse, darkness, loss, anger....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Umrao the noble courtesan
A vast, open hall, decorated in gilded carvings and seeped in the opulence of the Mughal period. Centre stage she stands alone. Courtesan, Tawa’if...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Trash Test Dummies at The Circus Hub
Three young men in dungarees and hard hats pushing wheely bins. Where was it all going to lead? Well, it lead - after a tentative start...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Launch of Underbelly’s Circus Hub
Circus Hub is being created and programmed by Underbelly, and forms a distinct new addition to its presence at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The venue...
Edinburgh Fringe Book Festival 2015
You may know all about the Fringe - but did you know Edinburgh has a thriving Fringe Book Festival too?
Independent radical bookshop Word Power...
Third Craft Scotland Summer Show opens in Edinburgh
Craft Scotland presents the work of 35 inspiring makers in the centre of Edinburgh
The Craft Scotland Summer Show returns from 7 – 30 August,...
Craigentinny Cancer Support Group
Craigentinny Community Centre will be hosting a Cancer Support Group monthly, on Thursday evenings, from Thursday, August 20th. This new initiative targeting the Eastern...
Dine out for a fiver at Boxsmall Market
Local food traders at Boxsmall Market offer £5 meal deal throughout August
Festival goers, families and food lovers will be able to dine out for...
Saturday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
The Cramond Island Walk: a guided walk to Cramond Island, organised by The Cramond Association. Learn about the activities that took place on the...
Five things you need to know today!
Police issue updated description of attacker in Craiglockhart
Southside Community Council
Free music at the National Museum of Scotland
Fringe tip of the day
Edinburgh Sport Awards
Police in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW — Brute ***
Brute (winner of the 2015 IdeasTap Underbelly Award) starts the Fringe the way it deserves to begin. Nestled among endless posters advertising another show...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Chicken Licken and the Little Red Hen *****
'What do you need to make bread?' 'But I like pizza!'
'What do you need to make it wet?' 'The sea!'
'Has anyone got an egg?'...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – More C*** Than Cant ****
Good gentlefolk of Edinburgh - lock up your wives and daughters - the mad, bad and dangerous Lord Byron is in town.
But, with foppish...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Rap Guide To Climate Chaos *****
The pentameter is mightier than the absurd...
Fringe 2014 saw Baba Brinkman reprise his revised ‘serious (and not so serious) medieval swaggering’ Hip-Hop/Rap take on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – A Cinema In South Georgia
The Edinburgh Reporter's scoop hound was on the scent at The Pleasance bar the other day as some curious card-sharp playing shenanigans were well...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Pilgrim *****
A casualty of near terminal Californian beach debauchery, Christy, professional hedonist, boards his Dublin bound plane. His welcoming party might be girlfriend, Penny, resting...
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut from the UK’s leading aerial theatre company.
Award winning and critically acclaimed aerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor mix circus, physical theatre, narrative story-telling and distorted perspectives. Combining circus and visual theatre,...
Royal Mail issue a new Festival postmark
Katrina Coll and Stuart Millar, who both work in Royal Mail's city delivery office, joined Kath M Mainland, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society to...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Comic Art Workshop with Kev F Sutherland: find out how easy it is to write and draw comics and manga! A free comic art...
Five things you need to know today!
Harmonium
Charlotte Baptist Chapel
Festival Tip of the Day
Festival Map
Photography Competition
Tonight at 10.30 the place to be is Lothian Road outside The Usher Hall where there...
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2015
If you can get a ticket for this year's Tattoo then do. It is a fun show with great talent from across the world...
Captains announced for Fringe ‘slime fest’
Guest team captains announced for Fringe kids slime fight show
Matty Grey’s Grossed Out Game Show pits two team guest captains against each other, each leading...
Sculptor seeks Edinburgh war veterans
Louise Giblin MA, Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, who has made head and body casts of many sports stars and media...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Katie and the Mona Lisa Musical ****
Planet Theatre Productions`charming adaptation of James Mayhew`s award-winning eponymous illustrated younger readers`book is a sixty minute musical menagerie of Renaissance stealth Art appreciation and...
Gin company wins five awards
Spencerfield Spirit Company, owners of the Edinburgh Gin brand, is celebrating after an outstanding win at the International Wine & Spirit Competition. The company...
Holyrood moves closer towards ending of Air Passenger Duty
Scottish Ministers have marked a new milestone towards reform and reduction of Air Passenger Duty (APD) in Scotland.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Infrastructure...
Thursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Edinburgh Hiroshima Commemoration: Edinburgh CND has organised two events for its supporters to mark this anniversary - (i) 12 noon: floating of paper lanterns...
Five things you need to know today!
George Street traffic
Harmonium Project
Tickets at Edinburgh Airport
Fringe Tip of the Day
Today at the Edinburgh Art Festival
In September 2014 the Council introduced a dedicated two-way cycle lane,...
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