Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a… 

The Duncan Brothers: Blood Sword

The Duncan Brothers: Blood Sword

The Duncan Brothers find themselves burdened with a legacy they never asked for. 

Rob Duncan is Leather Daddy. Who is Andy Duncan?

Rob Duncan is Leather Daddy. Who is Andy Duncan?

Rob Duncan has found a persona that really resonates with him. 

Peter Duncan's A Falling Tree

Peter Duncan's A Falling Tree

Peter Duncan: actor, panto filmmaker, Blue Peter man and the UK’s former Chief Scout talks about his world travels observing the changing planet. 

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

After their smash-hit, sell-out debut last year, legendary tennis coach Judy Murray and her son Duncan (the other Murray brother) return with another unique show featuring special … 

Chrysanths + C Duncan

Chrysanths + C Duncan

Modern Studies frontwoman Emily Scott performs new melancholy folk-tinged solo record Leave No Shadow with lush string chamber orchestra and band. 

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows Legs, Logs and Jeremy Segway) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense, featuring relatable topics including trains and babies. 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, … 

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies. 

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies. 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br… 

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

Legendary tennis coach, Judy Murray and her son Duncan (the other Murray brother) present a unique, one-off show featuring special guests, Q&As and a desperate attempt from Duncan … 

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

Rob Duncan: Baby Trains

An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies. 

Duncan Shanks | Riverbank – Landscape of Sorrow and Hope

Duncan Shanks | Riverbank – Landscape of Sorrow and Hope

Duncan Shanks finds his subject in his riverside garden in the Clyde Valley, painting the changing seasons with an emotional engagement that chronicles the constant cycle of loss a… 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott. 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Duncan Chisholm

Duncan Chisholm

Dubbed ‘the new sound of traditional Scotland’, fiddle player Duncan Chisholm plays authentic Highland music accompanied by a selection of Scottish artists. 

Paul Duncan McGarrity: A Practical Guide to Attacking Castles

Paul Duncan McGarrity: A Practical Guide to Attacking Castles

From the age of sieges and chivalry comes a show about medieval love, adrenaline junkies and an insane quest for glory. 

Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente (Studio)

Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente (Studio)

2017 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winners Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente are a vocal/guitar duo like no other. 

Paul Duncan McGarrity – A Practical Guide to Attacking Castles

Paul Duncan McGarrity – A Practical Guide to Attacking Castles

From the age of sieges and chivalry comes a show about medieval love, adrenaline junkies and an insane quest for glory. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey. 

Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan: Different Party

Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan: Different Party

“A howlingly funny, exquisitely performed hour of office-set slapstick from two of New Zealand’s most exciting comic talents” - The Telegraph Direct from their sell-out E… 

'One Long Night In The Land Of Nod' by Duncan Graham

'One Long Night In The Land Of Nod' by Duncan Graham

After his fall from grace, lawyer Kane returns to the family sheep station for the first time in ten years. 

Anny Celsi and Nelson Bragg with Duncan Maitland

Anny Celsi and Nelson Bragg with Duncan Maitland

Los Angeles pop-rockers Celsi and Bragg team up with Dublin’s Maitland, forming a high-energy, high-flying trio. 

Brian Kellock and Fionna Duncan

Brian Kellock and Fionna Duncan

After four years of sell-out shows with his acclaimed trio, multi award-winning pianist Brian Kellock has invited legendary Scottish jazz singer Fionna Duncan to make her Fringe de… 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum. 

Dual Core Comedy Processor Unit - Presented by the Duncan Brothers

Dual Core Comedy Processor Unit - Presented by the Duncan Brothers

The Duncan brothers came from the same erection, but have since gone in a different direction. 

Amy Duncan

Amy Duncan

Performing songs from her latest Creative Scotland supported album Undercurrents, Amy revisits older material and includes a showcase of new songs all unique to this Fringe show. 

Paul Duncan McGarrity – Ask an Archaeologist

Paul Duncan McGarrity – Ask an Archaeologist

In Paul Duncan McGarrity’s eighth show at the Fringe, Ask An Archaeologist, interesting and funny are blended to create a must see stand-up at the heart of the Free Fringe Festiv… 

Paul Duncan McGarrity – Today is the Good Old Times of Tomorrow

Paul Duncan McGarrity – Today is the Good Old Times of Tomorrow

Last year I used the word Schadenfreude in my description, and it seemed to frighten off dumb people as I had lovely audiences. 

Amy Duncan: Undercurrents

Amy Duncan: Undercurrents

Edinburgh based singer/songwriter Amy Duncan showcases a new body of songs with string trio: harp, bass and percussion as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase. 

Momma Was a Bad Mutha

Momma Was a Bad Mutha

Momma was a Bad Mutha’s flyer touts it as ‘the universal story of a young girl’s untimely coming of age amidst her momma’s weekend house parties. 

Britannia Waves the Rules

Britannia Waves the Rules

Britannia Waves the Rules, presented by Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, is a brilliant play. 

St Joan

St Joan

St Joan, an original production by the London based Pascal Theatre Company, is a brilliant, challenging show. 

The Rooftops Of Paris

The Rooftops Of Paris

The Rooftops of Paris fell far short of my expectations. 

Autumn Fallin'

Autumn Fallin'

Autumn Fallin’ plays out much like its flyer would suggest. 

Paul Duncan McGarrity: Fail! - Free

Paul Duncan McGarrity: Fail! - Free

Following on from last year’s acclaimed show Awkward Hawk, Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) looks at the power of schadenfreude, embarrassment, and how being hi… 

The God Box: A Daughter's Story

The God Box: A Daughter's Story

The God Box is a show which is well worth seeing. 

Shirley and Shirley: Late Night Lock In

Shirley and Shirley: Late Night Lock In

Like any sketch show there is often a sense that the evening may play out something like lucky dip. 

American Impressionism: A New Vision

American Impressionism: A New Vision

American Impressionism: A New Vision runs throughout the entirety of the fringe and can provide a blissful escape from the flyering and madness of the Royal Mile. 

Greater Expectations

Greater Expectations

Greater Expectations was an exciting play to attend. 

The Rain That Washes

The Rain That Washes

The premise of this show, delivered by the North London theatre company Chickenshed, is both stirring and foreboding. 

Haydn's Nelson Mass

Haydn's Nelson Mass

Any event hosted in Brighton’s idiosyncratic St Bartholomew’s Church is bound to have an element of grandeur to it. 

King & Country World War 1 Opera

King & Country World War 1 Opera

The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival. 

Barb Jungr: Hard Rain

Barb Jungr: Hard Rain

Barb Jungr is obviously a seasoned performer. 

Lions Led by Asses 1914-1918

Lions Led by Asses 1914-1918

If there is an unquestionable 5 star element to this performance it has to be its location. 

Traditional African Acrobatics

Traditional African Acrobatics

Traditional African Acrobatics by Fanti Acrobatics was a show which left me upbeat yet intensely frustrated. 

Stanley Simmonds

Stanley Simmonds

The Foundry Gallery is playing host to a retrospective of British artist Stanley Simmonds throughout the fringe. 

After Dark Lewes Ghost Walk

After Dark Lewes Ghost Walk

This is not your typical childish ghost walk filled with tales of ghouls, beasties and ghostly little girls in their pyjamas. 

Amy Duncan: Cycles of Life

Amy Duncan: Cycles of Life

Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter Amy Duncan performs songs from her new Linn Records release, Cycles of Life. www.amyduncan.co.uk / www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely. 

Author

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouch’s last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly… 

Scottish Playwright Linda Duncan McLaughlin on the Birth of A Play A Pie and a Pint

Scottish Playwright Linda Duncan McLaughlin on the Birth of A Play A Pie and a Pint

Architect Rob can't find his Rotoring mechanical pencil. 

Duncan Paveling talks My Feral Heart, Down's Representation

Duncan Paveling talks My Feral Heart, Down's Representation

Duncan Paveling makes his feature screenwriting debut with My Feral Heart, a portrait of Luke (Steven Brandon), a man with Down’s syndrome who has been the sole carer for his eld...