Articles by Wayne Cleworth

Knee Deep

Knee Deep jumps into a pair of fisherman’s waders and wanders well out beyond the shallows of the physically possible.

Leo

Face, then fist, then thigh-first onto the stage tumbles Leo with a silent and excellently choreographed crash.

The Humour League Presents - Free

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
3rd Aug, 2012

Farting at a funeral could be quite funny.

Life As We Know It

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

‘Life as we know it’ turns out to be about a very specific time in life: the teenage years.

All Star Stand-Up Showcase - Free

Review
★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it.

Undercovered

Review
★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

Seven performers stand statue-like awaiting the start of the show.

The Idiot at the Wall

Two sisters are reunited under the dark cloud of prophecy and superstition in the wake of WWI.

Jonny & the Baptists

Review
★★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Musical comedy is a genre where the mediocre can prosper with average comedians hiding behind averagely strummed guitars.

Jack Foster and Carolyn Anona Scott

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

Sitting on the edge of the stage, this adept duo quite literally comes down to the level of the audience.

Machinal

Review
★★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2012

Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Broadway hit resurfaces here in Edinburgh to discuss the plight of a woman subjected to the pressures and expectations of a male dominated world.

Amusements

Review
★★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

Step inside the auditorium of Sleepwalk Collective and let yourself be taken on a cognitive journey through the subconscious that stimulates from inside out.

Morgan & West: Lying, Cheating Scoundrels

Two self-confessed dirty rotten scoundrels did much more than waxen twist their moustaches when they lured the unsuspecting audience into their card den of delectable deception; li…

After the Rainfall

Ants successfully colonised the world; Britain didn’t.

The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute

Review
★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2012

This is a play about love and art, and the lengths someone will go to reach out and take hold of something real and tangible from each, or both, of these two abstract concepts.

Dan Wright: Michael Jackson Touched Me

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

Dan Wright, with his highly controversial and misleading title, attempts to lure all the Whacko Jacko conspirators under one roof and, Guy Fawkes-like, burn them all down with a fi…

An Indie Boy's Guide to Sex and Girls

Review
★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Marc Burrows borrows from the 90s genre of Britpop all he needs to know about sex and girls.

The Leeds Tealights: Sexy Chubby

If you subconsciously reach for a bag of salt and vinegar crisps when you notice a paper cut on your thumb, then this acerbically doused sketch show is the one for you.

Luke Milford Things I Like

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

Luke Milford is a likeable chap who seems to like people, so much so they form a major part of his show.

Des Bishop Likes to Bang

Des Bishop bangs a lot more than just his drum in this visceral performance about.

Ciaran O'Driscoll Launching His Novel: A Year's Midnight

Review
★★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

Word Power Books on West Nicholson St played host to Ciaran O’Driscoll, an Irish poet and prose writer of distinction, as part of their Edinburgh Book Fringe programme.

Card Ninja: ReDeal

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

Aimed for children above the age of twelve, Javier Jarquin is a card dealing Ninja who quite literally aims at children.

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…

Bottleneck

Review
★★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

This production simply explodes out the top of a teenage bottle of pent up pop, going everywhere and covering everyone - not just those in the front row - with raw, untutored energ…

Him and Me: Sketch Circus - Free

Review
★★★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure.

Fragment

Review
★
Wayne Cleworth
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

A Mused Collective’s interpretative dance to live music attempts to ‘connect a disjointed world with pillows, neckties, a French horn, and groovy beats.

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