Tag: Fringe
Fringe 2024 -Twonkey’s Basket Weaving in Peru ⭐⭐⭐
The Fringe is often associated with weird and wonderful shows with small audiences, in small back rooms.
Twonkey's Basket Weaving in Peru was such a show.
Musical background
Several other Fringe performers were in the...
Fringe 2024 – Josh Glanc: Family Man ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Fringe can take its toll. Performers start to drop out of shows with so called "Fringe Flu", while Fringe goers are drained by excessive hours in dark dank recesses of the Old Town...
Fringe 2024 – Piano Smashers
One of the great joys of the Fringe is stumbling across interesting and unexpected shows.
Such hidden gems add greatly to the Fringe experience and remind us that among the thousands of shows, there...
Fringe 2024 – Markus Birdman: We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of...
Birdman: We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Gutter
In comedy shows, it's soon clear whether the performer will deliver the goods. Markus Birdman is one performer who...
Still Battling to Free the Fringe
The success of the Netflix series Baby Reindeer and the furore that followed it brought Richard Gadd's name to the attention of many.
It was a reminder that Gadd’s initial breakthrough came at the Edinburgh...
Fringe 2024 – Mark Simmons: More Jokes ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The PBH Free Fringe is a significant part of the Fringe; both in size and in the quality and variety of shows.
Mark Simmons' More Jokes. was an example of one aspect of the Free Fringe. ...
Escape the Fringe – Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be divisive, with many locals resenting the way it impedes their journeys.
Particular pinch points in the Old Town, especially on and around South Bridge, can be very difficult to...
New Fringe Hub puts adult learning classes ‘at risk’
Edinburgh to lose its only dedicated adult learning centre as Fringe move approved
The future of Edinburgh’s adult learning and education services is 'at risk', the council has been warned, as dozens of classes are...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Patrick Spicer: Yes…haha. what? ★★★
After initial microphone issues, Spicer quickly built a nice rapport with the audience and made it clear to them that they were in safe hands.
His initial interactions with some of the audience members...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Fringe Affair ★★★
The show is something of a love letter to the Fringe and Edinburgh as a place of cultural adventure. Edward W. Feery has greatly enjoyed the Fringe 'as a performer' for the last few...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Show for Gareth Richards ★★★★★
This show, prompted by tragedy, is one of the 'underground' highlights of this year's Fringe. Arriving 45 mins before kick-off, it was clear that this show had built up a real buzz.
Already, at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Sam’s Scriptz! ★★★
Arriving 15 minutes early, I was faced with a slightly concerning prospect that I might be the only person turning up for this show. I still have vivid memories of reviewing a show in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Political Breakfast ★★★
This engaging show manifested many aspects of the PBH Free Fringe.Taking place every morning (at 9.30am), this show features a panel of Fringe performers discussing politics and is chaired by either Harun Musho'd or...
Attila the Stockbroker urges everyone to “Reclaim the Fringe!”
The veteran Fringe performer Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) has launched a broadside against the contemporary Fringe.
The punk poet and multi-instrumentalist musician believes that it's time to 'reclaim the Fringe'.
In a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale ★★★★
The Fringe is often criticised for the dominance of stand-up comedy and a sense that much of it is trivial. In contrast, Marlon Solomon's updated Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale deals with one of...
Babbling since a baby, Gyles just won’t stop talking ★★★★
Gyles Brandreth is that annoying geezer on in the background of my mother’s telly when I go visit her.
And queuing for his Gyles Brandreth Can’t Stop Talking! show (he really can’t) at Assembly George...
Assembly Festival surviving on short term loan – outstanding debt puts 2024 shows at...
The boss of the Edinburgh Fringe’s longest running and largest venue operator has suggested that Assembly Festival may not be around for the 2024 Festival.
William Burdett-Coutts, Assembly Festival’s founder and artistic director, revealed the...
18 new Scottish shows to be showcased in the Fringe through the ‘Made in...
The world class shows will take place across nine venues, with funding from the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo Fund
The 'Made in Scotland' programme was launched today, with 18 shows chosen from a range of...
New Fringe app announced for this year’s festival
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has published details of a new app, which will be available just before this year's festival.
Last year there was a great deal of outcry when the Fringe eventually admitted it was...
Formal talks begin about new Fringe Festival hub
Plans for a new Edinburgh Fringe ‘hub’ have taken a step forward as the council enters formal discussions with festival bosses about leasing out a city centre building.
The Old Town’s South Bridge Resource Centre...
Fringe action at The Brunton in Musselburgh
Brunton Theatre Trust has programmed the Fringe experience with live performances to choose from, audiences can enjoy family friendly theatre, Scottish and Irish trad, jazz, pop and classical concerts at The Brunton (pictured) as...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – When Judas Met John ★★★
This is an enjoyable 45 minutes absorbing the musical relationship between John Lennon and Bob Dylan.
Hugh and Tom Adams are competent musicians performing harmonies and telling stories with ease. The brothers from Carrickfergus in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Basil Brush Family Show ★★★★★
If I were a Culture Tsar, I’d lobby for it to be mandatory to take your children to see live shows.
Children have the innocent ability to give themselves over to the excitement of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Jeremy Sassoon’s Mojo ★★★
Playing music of Jewish origin, this is a wonderful concept for a show and a good fit for the Edinburgh Fringe’s return in 2021.
Singer/pianist Jeremy Sassoon opens with George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Dean Owens and Joey Burns
At short notice Dean Owens Celtic Connections show with Joey Burns - with Calexico trumpeter Martin Wenk and Kevin McGuire, is being squeezed into this year's Fringe. The show will run from 16 to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Sweet FA ★★★★
A War of Two Halves was one of the most talked-about shows at the Fringe in 2018 and 2019 and rightly so.
The producers have returned in 2021 with Sweet F.A a football narrative that...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Run ★★
Stephen Laughton's semi-autobiographical monologue play about growing up as a gay Jewish teenager is given an energetic but strangely uncomfortable rendition by Jonathan Smeed on his Fringe debut.
Amid the New York-based playwright's attempts...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Leo Kearse – Cancel Culture ★★★★
"Enough snowflakes can create an avalanche!" comes the rallying cry of the disparate "Communities" drawn together under the Sun-averse parasol of Identity Politics/Social Justice Warriors (have keyboard will tantrum).
Problem with avalanches is that...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir ★★★★
It's hard not to think of Fawlty Towers, Torquay's most famous hotel, when entering the farcical world of Hotel Decevoir, lovingly created by Kimberley Taylor, given that its manager is an arrogant, deranged exemplar of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Old Jewish Jokes ★★★
"Sanitiser on the left as you go in; make sure you've got your masks on."
Comedy on the Fringe in the time of Covid-19 has taken on a new, non-comic, dimension and scrabbling around for...
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