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Life With Julia Brown: ‘Shetland is such a beautiful place and I feel lucky to have experienced working there’
Rising Scottish actress Julia Brown on working on Shetland, falling in love with acting as a child, and the latest season of Karen Pirie on ITV. I grew up in Edinburgh but I live in London now. I was a chatterbox at school – and still am today – so that could get me…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Baxter v The Bookies, Aideen McQueen & Flamencodanza
Baxter v The Bookies’ script is fast moving and very amusing, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★ The spot light turns on and there sits Baxter looking exactly as you would expect from a small-time compulsive horse racing gambler, slightly down on his luck but, like all gamblers, believing the wheel of fortune is about to turn…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe Review: Zhuangzi’s Dream
A masterclass in transitional storytelling, Zhuangzi’s Dream is a performance you don’t want to miss, says Megan Amato. ★★★★★ Before suspicious spouses were testing their loved ones’ loyalty with catfishing fake profiles, there was Zhuang Zhou, a 4th-century Daoist philosopher who tested his wife’s vows by faking his death and magically becoming his rival to…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Monstering the Rocketman, Find Me, Bitter Baby
The award-winning writer, Henry Naylor, is back at the fringe with Monstering the Rocketman and it’s a must see, Jeremy Welch says. ★★★★★ This production comes after his two award winning plays at previous fringes, Afghanistan is not Funny and Let the Bodies Pile. He doesn’t disappoint with this production. In this play we see…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Jo Caulfield, Bad Mood Rising & Dan Rath, Tropical Depression
Jo Caulfield’s Bad Mood Rising is one of the best comics at the Fringe. A must-watch, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★★ Jo Caulfield is scathing of shows with themes, and people in new relationships, and men’s fashion and just about everything else. The title of her show, Bad Mood Rising, is apt. She wears a bright…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe Reviews: Ten Thousand Hours, Cirque Kalabanté & Playing Love
Ten Thousand Hours, performed by the Australian acrobatic troupe, Gravity and Other Myths, is the most extraordinary thing I’ve seen at the Fringe this year, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★★ It’s not just the apparent ease of the feats (and somehow these performers do make it look easy), but also the choreographed falls, faults, stumbles. A…
Read MoreReviews: Dance and Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Landscape of the Other Shore, ★★★★ Soft sounds of the sea cascade the stage, setting the scene and tone of my first Edinburgh Fringe show of 2025. A dark clouded sky is projected onto the background behind the set as slow-moving actors lull the audience into a sense of serenity – but not for…
Read MoreWatch: Film about Scottish porridge making competition premieres at Edinburgh Film Festival
A documentary about a world famous porridge making competition in the Scottish Highlands will premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival. For the last three decades contenders from around the globe descend on the picturesque village of Carrbridge to compete for the coveted title of World Porridge Champion. Amid intense rivalries, steaming bowls of porridge, and…
Read MoreAlasdair Becket King at the Fringe: ‘A brilliant, genuine comedy great’
I saw Alasdair Beckett-King at the Fringe in 2022 with his Nevermore show and it was one of the highlights of that year’s Edinburgh festival for me. This year he’s back, and on top form, says Alister Tenneb. ★★★★★ I am surprised that Beckett-King is not more of a household name by now – apparently…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe Reviews: Adele Cliff & A Poem and a Mistake
Adele Cliff believes that all comics are liars, and she’s here to own the consequences says Frankie Reason. ★★★ This is Cliff’s eleventh visit to the Edinburgh Fringe, and it shows. She’s entirely at ease on the stage, and dialogues with her audience as comfortably as she would an old friend (perhaps whom she hadn’t…
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