Tag: Fringe
Gilded Balloon presents Nath Valvo: Happy Idiot
Gilded Balloon Presents Nath Valvo: Happy Idiot
With sold out shows across Australia and at Soho Theatre, five star reviews and countless
laughs – the Happy Idiot is set to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut!
From his dysfunctional family to '90s suburbia,...
Letter from Scotland
I’ve watched the Edinburgh Festival come and go for over 30 years and every year it gets bigger and noisier. I love it. It’s like watching the annual migration of skeins of cultural geese....
Quick eats and tasty treats at Edinburgh’s Festivals
Festival season is well underway and it’s all rather hectic! With so many things to see and do you may find you don’t have a lot of time to think about eating so here...
Festival Fringe Review: Ben Hart – The Vanishing Boy ****
This magic show at Underbelly uses a fascinating narrative to tell a story, illustrated by illusions and tricks along the way.
Ben Hart, the young magician is very talented using textures with his tricks (water, paper,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Greenville Ghost ***
The stage, set up in one of C Nova's many studios, is simple. A female receptionist types and calculates behind a desk, dressed with sad table foliage and a melon sat in an otherwise...
Where to eat and drink – The Paradise Palms Edinburgh
The Paradise Palms is located opposite Bristo Square perfectly located for the summer festival season and ideally placed for a night out on the town. The venue has been decked in in a 1920s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Vitamin****
Vitamin
Venue 124, Zoo
The blurb for Carlo Jacucci's innovative one-man show tantalises with a vague description: "...the character is a man who preaches from a book he never read, he becomes a captain, an accordionist,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Nikotine***
Nikotine
Venue 29, Paradise in the Vault
Nikolai Nikotine has few pleasures in life: his pet mouse, dreams and ambitions which have gone unfulfilled, and cigarettes. It was his wife's idea for Nikolai to deliver a...
Edinburgh Reporter Radio Review Show
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Edinburgh Reporter Radio popped down to Sofi’s in Leith, armed with one simple question: What’s the best thing you’ve seen in the Fringe?
In response, we got recommendations on...
Fringe Chair steps down
After 17 years as Chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Baroness Elizabeth Smith of Gilmorehill has formally stepped down at the Society’s Annual General Meeting held today.
Kath M Mainland, Chief Executive of the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Blind ****
The Blind
Venue 311, Old College Quad
As the sun begins to set and the audience gathers round the atmospheric Old College Quad, brightly dressed women emerge from the crowd, pair off with dashing men and...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Sophie Shadow ***
Sophie Shadow
Venue 29, Paradise in the Vault, Merchant Street
Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre may be young, but this is their fifth year on the Fringe so it's reasonable to consider them veterans. Past productions have...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Pinocchio – Adventures in the Metropolis **
Pinocchio: Adventures in the Metropolis
theSpace @ Venue45
ReShape Theatre's update on Pinocchio promises "stunning lifelike puppetry, moving urban sets and engrossing digital soundscapes." It's a description that sounds intriguing, but ultimately fails to deliver.
The conceit...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Turn of the Screw****
The Turn of the Screw
Venue 82, Zoo Southside
Henry James' classic The Turn of the Screw is one of the great ghost stories, a psychological thriller that mesmerises with its ambiguity.
The story is one of...
Interactive festival encourages next generation of game-makers
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"Digital media is transforming pretty much every area of the creative industries, the arts, the media..."
Established in 2002, Edinburgh Interactive is a short festival that aims to bring...
Edinburgh Fringe Interview: Jeff Achtem
Since first arriving on the Fringe in 2009, Jeff Achtem has built a solid reputation for innovative and visually arresting family theatre. Appearing this year with cinematic new show Slapdash Galaxy as well as...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Billy the Mime ****
Billy the Mime
Venue 88, Just the Tonic at the Caves
If you believe some subjects are too serious to joke about, then Billy the Mime is probably best avoided. The show involves a number of brief...
Edinburgh Reporter Radio – we need your help!
At The Edinburgh Reporter we are always looking to use technology in innovative ways. This summer we are launching a project to use audio to bring you instant updates from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,...
Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Jonny Woo: Wonder Woo-Man
Jonny Woo:Wonder Woo-Man, Assembly Festival
Venue 3, Assembly George Square
Jonny Woo takes to the stage in crystal-encrusted stilettoes, a huge hat bristling with ostrich feathers, and a tailored jacket covered in pearlescent sequins. Yet it...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Back to School
Back To School is a site-specific, interactive experience where audience members are cast as students, premiering at the Pleasance for this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Part-comedy, part-social experiment, this new show from Britain’s modern day...
Auld Reekie Roller Girls hit the Fringe
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Edinburgh Reporter Radio caught up with Double D-estruction of the Auld Reekie Roller Girls to find out about their Fringe bouts...
Fringe Venue: Summerhall
Most of the larger Fringe venues are long-established and regular festival-goers will have trekked a well-trodden route between the Pleasance, Assembly, Gilded Balloon, et al. So when a major new venue arrives on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Love Letters to the Public Transport System
"Love Letters To The Public Transport System" Edinburgh Festival Fringe Show
All the world's a bus: Molly Taylor aboard a bus in Edinburgh to launch her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show "Love Letters To The Public...
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 Review: The Cherry Orchard (****)
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard adapted for Theatre Alba by Jo Clifford, is a very good serious play which had an added dimension as this production was staged outdoors.
There are of course risks associated with...
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...
Fringe Review: Big Dave’s Gay-B-C of Life (***)
Big Dave from 4 Poofs and a Piano, has branched out this year into the Free Fringe for a good hearty camp sing-a-long show that will have you smiling and chuckling along the way....
Faces of the Fringe – Part 6
Over the course of the Fringe, Thomas Haywood has been taking photos of Fringe characters on stage and in the street. In this 6th and final part, there are some new people around, doing...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Improvised the Musical (***)
Improvised musicals are a very difficult genre of theatre especially when the audience give them difficult subjects and titles, however the 'No Shoes Theatre Group' carry it off very well. The quality of the acting...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Confessions of a Mormon Boy (****)
There can be few tales which can make you feel the full range of emotions as a true story told from the heart. Steven Faels tells his true story in a solo show...
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