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Fringe Review: Alison Larkin, Grief… A Comedy
Alison Larkin grips the audience with this production, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★ Alison Larkin was adopted from America by an English family and grew up in England. Deciding to find her birth mother she returned to America, found her, got married to an American, started a family and then got divorced. In her middle years…
Read MoreFringe Review: Nina Gilligan, Goldfish
Ailsa Bath finds Nina Gilligan ‘achingly relatable and effortlessly funny’ in her performance Goldfish. ★★★ Nina Gilligan’s Goldfish was a humorous meander through the life of a middle aged woman. She openly acknowledged that her target audience were women above 40 and men under thirty which meant several references flew right over my twentysomething head…
Read MoreScotland’s language: Scottish authors help contribute to Doric’s revitalisation
By Marisha Worsnop The brilliant thing about language is that it’s in control of the speaker. Change, variation, and innovation are all at the hands of those using it. We as speakers say what goes and as long as enough people agree with us or understand us at the very least, we can do whatever…
Read MoreFringe Review: Rouge
Jeremy Welch samples the circus for grown-ups, with the award-winning Australian circus cabaret sensation Rouge. ★★★★ Rouge is an Australian production with a professional and talented troupe of artists. The show is advertised as ‘….a celebration of the astonishing, surprising, subversive and supremely sexy.’ It is all of the above featuring – circus acts with…
Read MoreJourneys: The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has returned to amaze crowds once again with this year’s show, Journeys. Providing all the artistic fanfare that Tattoo fans have come to expect, the show will honour the seafarers who courageously traverse the oceans to connect people and cultures across continents. Talents from the USA, India, Switzerland, Australia, Canada,…
Read MoreFringe 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…
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