Posts Tagged ‘edinburgh festival fringe’
10 hidden gems at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
With the Edinburgh Festival Fringe just around the corner, here’s ten hidden gems that you might have missed from theSpaceUK. 1: Four Letter Words Why Am I Like This? Do you misplace your glasses so often that you now have six pairs so you aren’t trapped inside and half-blind? Follow Nicole on her 30-year…
Read MorePhoebe Waller-Bridge launches Fringe fund
WRITER Phoebe Waller-Bridge has launched a £100,000 fund this morning to help performers at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The fund is supported by individual donors, Fringe sponsor Edinburgh Gin, and Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag for Charity” campaign, named after her popular television series, which began life as a Fringe show. The new fund will distribute 50…
Read MoreFRINGE REVIEW: “Tom Lucy: Melt”
Tom Lucy: Melt – Venue 33 – Pleasance Courtyard – Upstairs – 9.45pm TOM LUCY delivered a very funny, very slick show. His material covered various issues facing a sensitive young man in his 20s, from father issues to appreciation of fine furniture to later life circumcision. There was a lot of family-centred material throughout,…
Read MoreThe show will go on thanks to Fringe funding
FRESH funding for 13 Edinburgh Festival Fringe producers means “the show will go on” this summer. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is distributing nearly £1.3 million through its Fringe 2022 Resilience Fund. The Scottish Government’s Platforms for Creative Excellence (PLACE) programme had awarded almost £1.6m to the society. The remaining £305,000 will support the society’s…
Read MorePhoebe Waller-Bridge supports Underbelly’s Fringe fund
FLEABAG creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is among the artists who are supporting a new fund to help Fringe performers. Production company Underbelly has set up the fund to support acts that have lost out on the chance to perform at this year’s Fringe. It’s asking the public to donate £12 – the cost of an Underbelly…
Read MoreScottish dancer returns with solo triple bill
AFTER five years behind the scenes, award-winning Scottish choreographer Rosie Kay will return to the stage this autumn with a triple bill of solo works. Edinburgh-born Kay expects to perform her Absolute Solo II show – which will consist of Artemis Clown, Patisserie and a new work, as yet untitled – in her current home…
Read MorePianodrome is amphitheatre made from pianos
The world’s first amphitheatre made entirely out of upcycled pianos is to be resident at Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre this month. It will present a ‘Resonancy’ of events which will invite audiences to experience the unique interactive sculptural installation within the cultural gem of the capital’s most creative district. Pianodrome is the vision of its…
Read MoreS’more to Bonfire Night with Woodsman Whisky
The Woodsman Whisky are making Bonfire Night complete by giving away the ultimate at-home hamper: The Woodsman S’more Kit. Bonfire Night is traditionally an evening filled with crackling fires, exploding fireworks and great company. The Woodsman S’more Kits will contain everything needed to make the famous fireside snack (marshmallows, biscuits and chocolate spread), along with…
Read MoreWhen DNA, Brexit, history and diversity collide
Debuting at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is TERRAtory, a dual timeline modern play with a tribal twist. Essex girls with DNA tests results, tribal chiefs and conquistadors coming ashore at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Writer Elissa Nicholson’s TERRAtory is set in a 21st century Essex laden with political bias, campaign trail ethnic and cultural…
Read MoreWould you really ask others what they think of you?
Was Rabbie Burns right – Would we avoid more of life’s pratfalls if we had the power ‘to see ourselves as others see us’? Susie K Taylor put the bard’s theory to the test and turned the results into a play. She asked family, in laws, friends, frenemies and even an ex lover to write…
Read More