Posts Tagged ‘edinburgh festival fringe’
Fringe 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 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…
Read MoreReview: Alan Davies, Think Ahead
Alan Davies is undoubtedly one of the biggest comedy names at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe – and for good reason, says Alister Tenneb. ★★★★★ Sometimes it’s great to go to a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe knowing you’re going to see someone who has the experience, skill and material that’s made them successful…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Our Brothers in Cloth & Eli Matthewson Night Terror
Our Brothers in Cloth is not just a play about the shadow that has been cast over the Catholic Church, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★ Set in religiously conservative rural Ireland a brother tries to make sense of the suicide of his sibling, his death a second one in the community. There is one other factor…
Read MoreLife With Lubna Kerr: ‘Comedy was my calling, I loved to make people laugh as a child’
Scottish comedian Lubna Kerr on growing up in Glasgow, her favourite place in Scotland, and what people can expect from her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show this year. I grew up in Pollokshields in Glasgow when Pakistani people were the minority. Now you need a tan to fit in. Now I live in Edinburgh and…
Read MoreComedian Craig Hill takes his latest hit show out on tour
Comedian Craig Hill is taking his latest hit show I’ve Been Sitting On This For A While! out on tour across Scotland And he certainly has been sitting on this for a while as Craig has just completed his 25th consecutive run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Renowned world-wide for his high-octane, irreverent live comedy, Craig’s…
Read MoreFringe Review: Ananta, The Eternal
Ananta, The Eternal is a collection of lushly told tales illustrated by two very talented dancers, says Megan Amato. ★★★ The jingle of bells could be heard as dancers walked across the stage in darkness. After an introduction to the deity the work is inspired by, two women appear exquisitely adorned and dressed in jewel…
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