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Fringe Review: Sleeper
Megan Amato takes in the ‘unforgettable’ Korean dance performance Sleeper. ★★★★★ You know you’re in for a titillating performance when you walk into the theatre and a mysterious translucent stand is waiting for you on stage. It wasn’t until the lights dimmed and the show began – five minutes after we entered – that I realized…
Read MoreFringe Review: Taiwan Season, Lost Connection
Megan Amato on Taiwan Season, Lost Connection – a fast-paced and agile performance that speaks to the heart and reality of our relationships today. ★★★★ You best believe that when Taiwan Season come to town, my name will be on the list for every single one of their shows. Their talent recruitment team has not…
Read MoreFringe Review: Look At Them!
Megan Amato on one of her favourite performances of the Fringe so far, Look At Them! ★★★★★ This may be one of the best performances I’ve seen at the Fringe in years. Yes, it was that good. Look at Them! was the fifth piece of dance/physical theatre I had seen over that weekend, and like…
Read MoreFringe Review: Garrett Millerick Needs More Space
Alister Tenneb reviews Garrett Millerick Needs More Space at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ★★★★ The show’s theme is inspiration, what inspires people to do things, and why it’s not always obvious why we do those things in the first place. Well crafted, energetically delivered and with enough rough edges to be a bit unpredictable and…
Read MoreFringe Review: Isabella Charlton – So My Dad F****d The Nanny
Richard Bath is still struggling to process this comedian’s tale of a dark steamy affair between her father and the family’s nanny. ★★★ I seriously don’t know what to make of this show, which I’m still struggling to process. Against all expectations, it actually IS about Cheltenham College educated posh girl Isabella Charlton’s bad boy…
Read MoreFringe Review: Juliet Cowan – F*ck Off and Leave Me Alone
Richard Bath heads to Juliet Cowan’s comedy debut which delivers a part teenage confessional, part middle-aged rallying cry. ★★ You know you’ve attained true Marmite status when roughly quarter of the small audience leave longs before your final climax (and there’s a LOT of chat about climaxing in this show) yet the whole of the…
Read MoreFringe Review: Shitty Mozart
Richard Bath finds proof that ‘just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should’ at this one man show. ★★ The premise of this show is that Mozart was cloned, but that because the boffins used one of Amadeus’s pubes, the sub-optimal result was a replica with next to no musical talent. This one-man multimedia concerto was…
Read MoreFringe Review: Adults Only Magic Show
Richard Bath heads out for an adults-only night of magic and comedy. ★★★★ Short version: I really enjoyed this, and it was comfortably the best thing I saw in the opening couple of days of the Fringe. It didn’t start promisingly with amusing but dick-obsessed compere Magnus ‘Danger’ Magnus delivering some smutty innuendo that would…
Read MoreSlave to the rhythm: Scottish Colourists, J. D. Fergusson
The most progressive and cosmopolitan of the Scottish Colourists, J. D. Fergusson expressed his national identity and love of sensual pleasures in dynamic modern paintings that interweave rhythm and colour, says Mary Miers. John Duncan Fergusson is a central figure in the story of early-20th-century art. Here we take a look at his background. For…
Read MoreMànran kick off the takeover of Edinburgh Mound throughout the Fringe Festival
Trad supergroup Mànran has kicked off the takeover of Edinburgh’s Mound throughout the Fringe Festival. Hundreds of Scots piled onto the Mound on 1 August as they enjoyed an hour-long set from the Scottish group. The award-winning seven-piece band has been at the heart of the scene for over a decade and are recognised as…
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