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Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

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…

Lauren Stone: Cool For Cats

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
1st - 13th Aug 2024

What if an Edwardian lady ghost was also a hard-boiled private detective? What if that detective loved the Muppets? Can a comedy show ever match the joy of getting to stroke a nice…

Lauren Pattison: Big Girl Pants

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
1st - 25th Aug 2024

Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Lauren Pattison is back with a brand-new show.

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

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, …

Lauren Pattison: It Is What It Is

Everybody loves a comeback story, and Lauren Pattison’s It Is What It Is, is an up-beat in-depth look at the ups and downs of life.

Death of an Author

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

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…

Lauren Pattison: It Is What It Is

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
3rd - 28th Aug 2022

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Lauren is back with a brand-new show.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

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

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

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…

Lauren Pattison : Peachy

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
14th Aug 2019

Following a whirlwind couple of years of awards, nominations, sell-out shows and international touring, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee 2017 Lauren Pattison returns to…

Lauren Booth: Accidentally Muslim

Journalist Lauren Booth’s first solo show, Accidentally Muslim, promises a journey from ‘Soho hedonism’ to a shocking revelation in a mosque.

Hyena Lounge Comedy Club - Jonny Awsum, Lauren Pattinson & Hayley Ellis

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
The White Rose Rotunda
26th - 27th Jul 2019

York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…

Hyena Lounge Comedy Club: Jonny Awsum, Lauren Pattinson & Hayley Ellis

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
The White Rose Rotunda
26th - 27th Jul 2019

York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

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.

Lauren Pattison: Peachy

Pattison explodes onto the stage in sparkly hot pants, boots and a crop top.

Lauren Pattison: Peachy

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West End
Museum of Comedy
5th Jun 2018

Following a whirlwind year of awards, nominations and sold-out shows on top of a run at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lastminute.

Lauren Pattison: Lady Muck

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Adelaide Fringe
East Terrace Continental / The Austral Hotel
9th - 18th Mar 2018

Edinburgh Comedy Award: Best Newcomer Nominee 2017 & Runner up English Comedian of the Year.

Lauren Bok: Between A Bok And A Hard Place

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Adelaide Fringe
The Producers
2nd Mar 2018

After crushing Edinburgh and Melbourne Fringe, award-winning comedian Lauren Bok (SBS Comedy) returns with her new mind-bendingly hilarious meta show about making a show.

Lauren Pattison: Lady Muck

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
24th - 26th Aug 2017

One of the brightest young talents on the comedy scene, with a fresh and fierce female voice, Lauren Pattison has arrived with her hotly anticipated debut hour about embracing your…

Lauren Pattison: Lady Muck

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
2nd - 28th Aug 2017

One of the brightest young talents on the comedy scene, with a fresh and fierce female voice, Lauren Pattison has arrived with her hotly anticipated debut hour about embracing your…

Lauren Bok: Is That a Burrito in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy You Have a Burrito

Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

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

Lauren Pattison: Reet Petite – A Work in Progress

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
3rd - 29th Aug 2016

One of the brightest young talents on the Northern comedy scene who is beginning to make her presence known across the country.

Jana & Lauren Presents

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USA Regional & Tours
Magnet Theater
8th Jan 2016

Jana Schmieding and Lauren Olson host the final New York edition of this monthly character showcase, in which comedians perform brand-new, original characters.

Near Gone

This award-winning devised piece from Two Destination Language clearly deserves its second festival run.

An Invitation...

Bodies are awkward, difficult things.

Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj

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USA Regional & Tours
Drawing Center
7th - 21st Aug 2015

As part of the Drawing Center’s multidisciplinary exhibition “Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-15,” Ms.

She Loves Me

“Good morning, good day!” So begins the best classic musical you’ve never heard of.

Champagne Tutored Tasting

If the idea of tasting various French champagnes at an extremely shiny table in a marble Georgian library sounds appealing, well, here you go.

Extremely Bad Dancing to Extremely French Music

This is not for everyone.

The Importance of Being Earnest

This particular Earnest is a serious comedy by very young people.

Rumours

Neil Simon’s comedies are wonderful, but quite a few of them have aged badly.

Kava Girls

You really, really want to like this little musical.

Dinner is Swerved

Dinner is Swerved starts at 11:30 pm, so it isn’t really dinner — more like a midnight snack.

Speech Sucks: The Future Signs

In all the noise and bustle of Edinburgh during August, this was a refreshing and quiet event.

The Virtuous Burglar

Farce is easy to laugh at and difficult to perform.

Hamlet and Ophelia Go Swimming

This show has an attractive title and a premise brimming with potential: a series of scenes between Hamlet and Ophelia in the years prior to the events of Hamlet, combined with dia…

Dim Diolch

Words of warning: this production is entirely in Welsh (the title means “No thank you”).

Anything Goes

KD Theatre’s Anything Goes is cheerfully cheesy, well-done Cole Porter in an hour and a half.

Conversations with Boring, Ugly People

A decent show is worth the price of a ticket and a bad show isn’t, but in the case of Conversations with Boring, Ugly People, I’d pay good money not to have to watch this exerc…

Oleanna

This production of David Mamet’s play Oleanna is almost unwatchable, which is to say it’s excellent.

Eggs Collective Get A Round

Like many Free Fringe shows, this one is hard to categorize.

Chalk About

Performers Christine Devaney and Hendrik Lebon polled a group of children on what they’d like to see in a show.

The Hollywood Ten

Hats off to 8pB Theatre Company’s extremely young cast.

Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

Charles Dickens’ works adapt beautifully into one-man/-woman shows.

Marijan

There are some excellent one-woman shows out there, but this one doesn’t have much to offer.

Sketchbox

Review
★★
Lauren McLay
Edinburgh Fringe
St John’s
31st Aug, 2014

With each show, Sketchbox provides a taster session of five sketch comedy groups.

Dazzle Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition and Paul Furneaux Japanese Woodcut Prints

The centrally-located art gallery, Dovecot Studios, has provided a lovely break from the madness of fringe with its current offering of exhibitions.

Siddhartha, the Musical

You’ve probably seen the posters featuring a half-naked man covered in oil- exactly what Herman Hesse had in mind when he wrote his classic philosophical novel.

I'm Thinking of Leaving Facebook

It’s a rare thing when the venue is more intriguing than the performance.

Americana

Cameron Mackintosh Award winning company, ‘The Hungry Bitches’ return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their latest offering, ‘Americana’.

Sunday Morning

This new one-man show from South African theatre company Hello Elephant is by turns heartfelt, amusing, and pleasantly evocative of a morning run through Johannesburg.

Liz Lochhead: Somethings Old, Somethings New

Liz Lochhead’s solo spoken word show at Assembly Rooms opens with songs from Joni Mitchell’s delicately moody album ‘Blue’ on the sound system; appropriate not only for her…

Back to the Hills!

Danny O’Brien is genial stand-up, although the standard for geniality in comedians is pretty low.

The Post Show

We’ve all been there—the post-show discussion that goes on for too long or goes nowhere at all.

The Duchess of Malfi

For a minute, I thought I’d walked into a puppet theatre version of The Duchess of Malfi.

The Rat Pack - Live

The seemingly unwavering appeal of swing music has made the Rat Pack Live an irresistible draw to Fringe audiences year after year and this packed house proves that this year is no…

BOBBY WINNER

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

The now infamous case of the 1924 ‘thrill killers’ Leopold and Loeb is a well-mined source of theatrical material, from Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play Rope, in turn transform…

Lauren Fox: Love, Lust, Fear and Freedom

Lauren Fox, a New York native, makes her London debut at the Crazy Coqs of Brasserie Zedel.

Beijing Cake

Review
★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

Some cakes are just disappointing and better left unmade.

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Review
★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

People like Star Trek.

Innocence

Taking the poetry of William Blake as its inspiration, Scottish Dance Theatre’s Innocence takes us on a journey of exploration and wonder, delving into the magical world of imagina…

Hansel and Gretel

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2013

Due to the distinct lack of opportunities for young opera singers, Opera Holloway have taken their careers into their own hands and created their own company.

Entertaining Mr Orton

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2013

Entertaining Mr.

Much a Shoo Be Doo About Nothing

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2013

Courage Performers’ production Much a Shoo Be Doo About Nothing takes William Shakespeare’s much loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing and the ‘merry war’ between Beatrice and Benedi…

Much Ado About Nothing

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2013

The original rom-com, Much Ado About Nothing is one of William Shakespeare’s best loved works and perfect fodder for constant makeovers, in recent years it has been reset to just a…

Cinderella and the Flower Fairies

Returning to The Fringe for their 17th season, this enchanting show from Burklyn Youth Ballet is the perfect introduction to dance for the whole family, with music from Strauss and…

Circus Cavalcade

A magnificent celebration of circus arts from the UK Youth Circus Network, an organisation that has brought together 150 young people and their tutors from the four corners of the …

The Story of Little Dombey

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2013

What with the recent Les Miserables fever, everyone has been fussing over Victor Hugo and ignoring that other cheerful scribe of poverty and dying children - our very own Charles J…

Kafka’s A Report to an Academy

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2013

Warning: this show opens with a man middle-aged man clad only briefs.

A Funny Valentine

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2013

American jazz with a Scottish accent? Well, why not? Go sample this strange but still palatable cultural fusion in the basement of the Valvona and Crolla café.

Footloose

Review
★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

Dean Pitchford’s Footloose comes to Edinburgh on a wave of energy from Viva Youth Theatre.

Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision (Sarajevo)

Here we are in sunny Sarajevo for the greatest, gaudiest and most glorious celebration of dodgy Europop that we call Eurovision - well almost.

Keep Smiling Through

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2013

With a nation wallowing in a wave of nostalgia, this affectionate look back to the war years is a chance to experience the greatest hits of the 30’s and 40’s in an intimate musical…

Masters of Drip

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2013

Two good things: this show is free and the Masters of Drip, Michael Friederich and Gavin Rankin, don’t seem to have dripped anything on their immaculately clean white shirts.

The Trilogy

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

The Improsarios pride themselves on doing improv that’s not just comedic.

King Kong the Musical!

It’s the 1930’s and a few years have passed since Carl Dunham, the fabled showman brought King Kong from the jungle to New York.

After What Comes Before

After What Comes Before is a Dr.

The Adventures of Caroline and Mr Clown

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

A madcap and zany multi-media journey through the alphabet, minding your manners and some stand up comedy coaching for little ones, all eccentrically orchestrated by Sabrina the Te…

Bonk!

Review
★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2013

During a sex scene in the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s character announces from beneath the sheets, ‘This is the most fun I’ve ever had without laughing.

Hairy Maclary and Friends Show Featuring Slinky Malinki

There’s no denying the pulling power of Lynley Dodd’s best-selling children’s series Hairy Maclary: with vibrant characters, charming stories and colourful settings they are popula…

Running With the Firm

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

From the title, I thought this show might be like Glengarry Glenn Ross with more jogging.

Comedy Club 4 Kids

Where can you get an hour of stand-up that includes routines about farts, worms and Charles Darwin? The Comedy Club 4 Kids, that’s where.

The Liz and Dick Show

The complex and often turbulent relationship between one of the 20th Century’s most famous couples, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, has provided much fodder over the years for tablo…

Peter Pan

Another day and it’s another giant of children’s literature here at The Fringe.

Godspell

I appreciated Forth Children’s Theatre’s stunning production of this mess of New Testament musical.

Book of Blakewell

Like a Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence for the modern era, Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell breathe new life into the musical comedy genre.

Made for Each Other

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2013

Fred Astaire singing ‘Night and Day’ is a good way to start anything.

The Hat, The Cane, The Moustache

Review
★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2013

Don’t worry, this is indeed a show about Charlie Chaplin.

Next Door

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

Outstanding Danish and Finnish comedy duo Ivan Hansen and Pekka Raikkonen look like two schoolteachers.

The Road to Qatar!

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2013

If you’re going to offend, you’d better do it using a massive chorus, a few good tap numbers and a rousing finale.

Avenue Q

Review
★★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
Multiple Venues
2nd Aug, 2013

An English Lit graduate searching for purpose in his life; a closet homosexual banker with repressed feelings for his straight roommate; a porn obsessed monster; an idealistic kind…

The Boy Who Lost Christmas

The Boy Who Lost Christmas, by The Young Actors Company/Engineerium, is an absolutely lovely piece of children’s theatre.

The Three Lions

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2013

Zurich, the night before England’s failed attempt to bring the World Cup back home.

Hindsight

Kier McAllister’s new play Hindsight examines the butterfly effect of our life choices, not only on ourselves but on those we love.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

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

Preen Back Yer Lugs!

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2013

The year is 2108, World War Seven has just ended and in this post-apocalyptic world only Scotland survives, governed by a supreme leader: a man obsessed with wind turbines, a man w…

Wind in the Willows

What do you want a children’s show to be? Enchanting? Exciting? Engaging? Have a great story? Maybe with a little bit of (non-threatening) audience participation? Oh, and what abou…

How to Make a Killing in Bollywood

NPL Theatre are well known for tackling subjects that often don’t get an outing in mainstream theatre; previous work has included the thorny issue of Scottish sectarianism.

The Cow Play

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

The Cow Play is a trivial comedy about serious things.

Bright Lights

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2013

Léonie Kate Higgins brings her own - often heart-wrenching - take on the all too familiar theme of pursuing stardom in our celebrity obsessed world in her one-woman show Bright Li…

Julie Madly Deeply

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Julie Andrews’ saccharin sweet, goody two shoes persona would provide little substance for a cabaret show but Sarah-Louise Young and musical dir…

Juliet: A Dialogue About Love

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
3rd Aug, 2013

The image of Shakespeare’s Juliet, awakening from her sleeping draught to gaze upon her dead lover, is unforgettable.

Contractions

In the five years since its first production, Mike Bartlett’s play Contractions has gained even more resonance in these recession hit times.

Little Howard's Big Show for Kids

Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian.

A Body to Die[t] for

Review
★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
2nd Aug, 2013

If musical theatre was a sandwich, plot would be the pickle artfully placed on the side of the plate.

Song Circle / My Yellow Ukelele

The song circle is familiar territory for parents and carers of the under fives: here local performer Gill Bowman added her take on the popular format.

Eric and Little Ern

It’s a brave pair indeed who decide to recreate arguably the nation’s favourite double act, Morecambe and Wise, in a new show, but that’s what Ian Ashpitel (Wise) and Jonty Stephen…

Ben Champion: Human

Two guitars, one keyboard and a life-sized cardboard cutout of a man dressed as a caveman are what greet you when you enter the intimate surroundings of The Gilded Balloon Wee Room…

Kiss of the Spider Woman

The unlikely relationship between Molina, a timid, homosexual window dresser and Valentin, an idealistic, Marxist revolutionary, is the heart of this musical by Chicago and Cabaret…

Alice in Wonderland

Review
★★★
Lauren Humphreys
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2013

Another day, another re-interpretation of a classic of children’s literature.

The Magical Playroom with CBeebies' Cerrie Burnell

Cerrie Burnell’s show The Magical Playroom is the story of Liberty Rose, a girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina like her mother.

Author

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

Two Tired for Shakespeare? Try the Handlebards Energetic Cycling Performances

Feature
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2016

It’s been 400 years since William Shakespeare shuffled off to wherever he is now, and the Fringe guide is filled with his plays—possibly even more productions than usual, which...

The Richard Alger and Tina Kronis Extended Interview

Feature
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2014

Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...

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