Posts Tagged ‘edinburgh festival fringe’
Fringe 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 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…
Read MoreStory of Vietnam War children part of operation babylift premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Fifty years ago during the Vietnam War, thousands of babies and young children were flown out of Vietnam to new homes across the western world, many of them packed in boxes. Some of these children were not orphans at all, but young children tragically separated from their families in a war zone. They crossed oceans…
Read MoreLife with comedian Laura Davis: ‘I go for a three hour walk almost every evening, to write’
Australian comedian Laura Davis on the loneliness of comedy, Scotland’s rich wildlife, and how finding a large number of dead birds on a beach in Fife inspired their latest show. Comedians aren’t generally known for being early risers. I’ve worked nights ever since I started comedy about 17 years ago, so to me a…
Read MoreBrian Cox: Succession star named as new patron of Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Succession star Brian Cox has been named as the newest Patron of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The role will see the Scottish actor act as Patron for the festival, alongside fellow patron Eddie Izzard and honorary President of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. From an early-stage career in the 1960s, Brian has forged…
Read MoreLove letter to Sir Billy Connolly to be staged at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
He made his breakthrough at the Fringe more than 50 years ago, but now Sir Billy Connolly is being celebrated with a stage show paying tribute to his legendary comedy career. Just days after he celebrated his 81st birthday, the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) has revealed plans for a festival run next summer of…
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