Tag: Fringe
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Edinburgh Tonight (****)
If you have very little time to see shows and don't know what to see then this show will produce 7 acts in about 1 hour flat! The acts change daily so no show...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Batman! Holy Spoof Musical Batstravaganza (**)
This production has a distinctly amateurish corny feel about it with some appallingly over-used puns. The acting at times feels like it needs more depth and the singing needs more polish. The puns...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Llwyth (Tribe) – (*****)
Llwyth is a brilliant, powerful, enigmatic production that takes the audience through a whole range of emotions from laughter, anger, grief to happiness all in 1 hour 45 minutes and they loved it too!
Deaf...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: News at Kate (****)
The beauty of the Fringe is that sometimes you can go into a free show on impulse and discover a very funny stand-up comedienne such as Kate Smurthwaite. Her material is well structured, up...
Fringe Review: Muscle (***)
Muscle is a Welsh play based in Cardiff centring round interviews with men. The acting was of the highest quality though they regularly changed characters which made it a little hard to follow at...
Faces of the Fringe Part 5
Faces of the Fringe continues with a good dose of the eccentric one or two stage live stage shows and some real characters.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Truly Medley Deeply (****)
This Cambridge University Trio are a very skilled, fun-filled group who play medleys of pop songs using mandolin, synthesiser, violin, drum and guitar. They appeared on stage in beige, green and red catsuits with...
