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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…

Louise Atkinson: She's Got the Look

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Patter House
1st - 25th Aug 2024

With this new comedy show, the Amused Moose Best Debut Show winner revisits the unsolicited feedback she once received; ‘Louise Atkinson – sounds good, looks like a mess’; and di…

Louise Leigh: Distracted

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at Cabaret Voltaire
1st - 25th Aug 2024

‘Hilarious’ **** (TheWeeReview.

Louise Atkinson: She's Got The Look (Work in Progress)

Winner of the Amused Moose Best Debut Show, nominee for NextUp! biggest Award in Comedy and nominee for Comedians Choice Award, Louise Atkinson brings you a show about how we false…

Louise Leigh: Distracted

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
10th - 12th May 2024

Leicester Mercury Finalist, British Comedian of the Year semi-finalist, Funny Women semi finalist, Louise Leigh’s “imaginative, brilliant” (The Scotsman), “Hare-brained” …

Definitely Louise

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London Fringe
The Hope Theatre
19th - 20th Nov 2023

‘You’re supposed to be totally fucking crazy when you’re young! Crazy, but in a fun way’From the comfort of her flat, an excitable, precocious, irrepressible woman with…

Louise Dodds and Elchin Shirinov Duo

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Edinburgh Fringe
St Vincent’s
5th - 26th Aug 2023

Scottish Jazz Awards 2022 Best Vocalist nominee Louise Dodds and Elchin Shirinov (All About Jazz Top 200 living jazz pianists) will be performing an exclusive set from their critic…

Louise Atkinson: Mates

It’s very common to leave a comedy show with a new perspective or having learnt something.

Louise Young: Feral

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
2nd - 27th Aug 2023

Debut hour from Geordie rising star with a show all about class, chaos and coming out.

Louise Leigh: Amused

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Brighton Fringe
Artista Cafe & Gallery
7th May 2023

Midlife gets dark, but Louise Leigh is determined to see the funny side.

Louise Atkinson: Mates (Work in Progress)

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
7th - 14th May 2023

A work-in-progress comedy show from Amused Moose Finalist and Harrogate New Comedian of the Year finalist, Louise Atkinson.

Louise Leigh: Amused

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Brighton Fringe
Artista Cafe & Gallery
7th May 2023

Midlife gets dark, but Louise Leigh is determined to see the funny side.

Louise Atkinson: Mates (Work in Progress)

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
7th - 14th May 2023

A work-in-progress comedy show from Amused Moose Finalist and Harrogate New Comedian of the Year finalist, Louise Atkinson.

Louise Atkinson: Mates (Work in Progress)

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Vault Festival
The Basement at Vaulty Towers
7th Feb 2023

A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Amused Moose Finalist & Harrogate New Comedian of the Year finalist, Louise Atkinson.

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, …

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…

Louise Leigh Amused

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
4th - 28th Aug 2022

Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year finalist Louise Leigh was supposed to write her Magnum Opus: a searing commentary on men, menopause and menthol rub, a meditation on the natu…

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 Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villaronga with translator Louise Johnson

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
3rd 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…

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…

Josh Jones and Louise Young: Work in Progress

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
22nd - 24th Aug 2021

An hour of stand-up from two rising-stars in the world of comedy.

Faye and Fiona are Thelma and Louise

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Camden Fringe
2Northdown
18th Aug 2021

Faye and Fiona feel like Thelma and Louise except they’re stuck in South London with a beat up 1999 Honda Accord (and they haven’t shot anyone.

Faye and Fiona are Thelma and Louise

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Camden Fringe
2Northdown
18th Aug 2021

Faye and Fiona feel like Thelma and Louise except they’re stuck in South London with a beat up 1999 Honda Accord (and they haven’t shot anyone.

An Evening with Louise Dearman

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent
10th - 11th Jun 2021

Louise Dearman is a leading British actress, singer and international concert soloist.

Louise Dearman and Laura Pitt Pulford

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West End
Turbine Theatre
20th Dec 2019

Two of the first ladies of musical theatre join Paul Taylor-Mills in an intimate one-off concert.

Gabby Best: 10,432 Sheep

Gabby Best’s Edinburgh show 10,432 Sheep is about her struggle with insomnia, and her approach to coping with life in general.

Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
2nd - 25th Aug 2019

Louise recently received two reviews.

Louise Young and Anja Atkinson: Big Div Energy

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
2nd - 25th Aug 2019

Rising stars Louise Young and Anja Atkinson make their Fringe debut.

Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid

You can never be entirely sure if the material a comedian is sharing is true, based in truth, or completely fabricated.

Pindos

Pindos is former Cambridge Footlight Milo Edwards’ debut hour at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Louise Leigh Identifiable

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
1st - 6th Aug 2019

Can you be a perfect wife and mother and stay true to your inner weirdo? For years, Louise Leigh has been listening to the voice telling her that to be a proper woman you have to b…

Definitely Louise

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
31st Jul - 24th Aug 2019

From the comfort of her flat, an excitable, precocious, irrepressible woman with a dirty mouth and a lot to say discusses life, her many opinions and her best friend, all the while…

An Audience with Yasmine Day

If character comedy tickles your funny bone then look no further than An Audience With Yasmine Day at Pleasance Courtyard.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Live at the Fringe

Not many comedy fans would turn down the chance to see the legendary Whose Line Is It Anyway? gang live.

Louise Young and Neil Harris: Big Div Energy £5 / PWYW

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
The Basement
27th Jul 2019

Rising stars Louise Young and Neil Harris make their Great Yorkshire Fringe debut.

Definitely Louise

A (nearly) solo show, Definitely Louise explores one young woman’s rage and loneliness.

Louise Leigh Identifiable

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
24th - 27th May 2019

Easily Amused? Louise Leigh is.

Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess (Work in Progress)

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Brighton Fringe
Artista Cafe & Gallery
8th - 22nd May 2019

Amused Moose National New Comic finalist and So You Think You’re Funny? semi-finalist 2018 comes to Brighton.

Louise Reay: Eraserhead

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

The first show in Edinburgh was banned.

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.

NOTFLIX

Remember that bit in Silence of the Lambs when Bob the prison guard finally faces up to his feelings for co-worker Janine? Me neither, but this isn’t a film on Netflix: it’s an…

Adele Cliff : Sheep

Adele Cliff is no mindless follower, a point she’s very keen to address.

Louise & Sally on Tin Pan Alley

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Adelaide Fringe
The Lab
12th - 16th Mar 2018

Two award-winning acclaimed artists.

A Tribute to 'Unplugged' with Louise Adams & Special Guests

Since 1989, MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ series has achieved iconic status in modern music & pop culture.

Plan B for Utopia

How do we start a conversation about a better future without sounding like dreamers? This is the question that Joan Clevillé Dance’s Plan B For Utopia tries to answer as its nar…

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a touching and affecting musical.

Twenty Something

Morning People Productions’ self-written and self-directed Twenty Something is a wonderful, shrewd new play about the whirlwind of realities and disappointments in young adult li…

Heroes

Exploding Whale Theatre’s coming of age romp Heroes is set against the backdrop of Bowie’s rise to superstardom in 1972.

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place is successful in creating a chillingly uncanny aura; a domestic scene is twisted from the familiar into the unthinkable.

Spontaneous Sherlock

As this Victorian romp reaches its climax and Sherlock Holmes whips a ladle out of his jacket to use as a weapon with a cry of “Good thing I sleep cook!” I am holding my sides …

Elixir

This is what the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is all about.

Stuck in ze Bunker With You

Frank Sinazi, the “Leader of the Iraq Pack”, is a smooth-talking American entertainer who will not only occasionally burst into song, but also into some loud episodes of a slig…

Absolute Improv!

Absolute Improv is on the whole a light-hearted and enjoyable experience without a bad bone in its body.

Changelings

Pucqui Collaborative’s Changelings is a thoughtful story about two very different existences colliding and attempting to translate one another.

Hide

As a big fan of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I was very excited to see Boiling Point’s spin-off.

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Man with the Twisted Hip

If you are in search of some polite 1930s garden-party-esque comedy mixed in with a hilariously self-aware performance, this is certainly a play to catch.

Avocado!

In today’s climate of brunching, Instagram-obsessed millennials, and in a time where avocado-hand and avocado-shaped walkie-talkies are an actual reality, there is plenty of oppo…

Notflix

In a Fringe riddled with long-form improvisation – especially musicals – this is one of the stand-outs.

Accidents Happen to Sasha Ellen

Few people can turn the (vividly graphic) tale of a dead rabbit into stand-up, but Sasha Ellen is somebody who’s learned the hard way to take life’s hurdles with an incontrover…

Jack Left Town: The Improvised Rock Documentary

An improvised rock documentary is a tall order, and Jack Left Town sets out with boundless enthusiasm, a strong absurdity curve and sick air guitar to deliver, even if some areas a…

Planet Earth III

David Attenborough meets clowning in this low-budget romp through the Earth’s depleted natural world.

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.

Beardyman: One Album Per Hour

Starting a show with a song containing the lyrics “it’s a stupid idea and it’ll never work” feels somewhat disingenuous when the song’s fully orchestrated and lit.

Our Man

Anybody who finds themselves rooting for a couple in a film or show will love the responsibility handed out by Ae-Ja Kim in Our Man.

Bourgeois & Maurice: How to Save the World Without Really Trying

2016’s been a bit of a bumpy year to say the least so, it was only a matter of time before we started receiving advice from extra-terrestrials.

JOAN

Too often Joan of Arc is depicted as a very quiet, very pure young woman who keeps her gaze firmly on her feet or to the Heavens: not very fun at all.

Tony Law: A Law Undo His-elf What Welcome

Sometimes you wonder if you need the context of a previous comedian’s shows to really ‘get’ their most recent work.

A Sketchy History

Huddled underground in a nuclear bunker, Three Men in a Boot attempt to recreate history as best they can whilst staving off hunger (and potentially another Ice Age).

Character Tålks

Pernilla Holland’s debut solo show is an ambitious but bumpy foray into character comedy.

Gillian Cosgriff: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Gillian Cosgriff is an absolute sweetheart with the pipes of a jazz singer and a wicked sense of humour to match.

Gabriel Ebulue: Hip-Punk

What’s your favourite music album? It’s something that not everybody puts a lot of thought into, but for Gabriel Ebulue it’s a make-or-break situation when making a first imp…

Ashley Storrie and Other Erotica

“I don’t want your opinions printed,” Ashley Storrie says to any potential reviewers in the audience.

Lewis Macleod is Not Himself

Lewis Macleod’s impersonation skills are unlike anything I’ve seen - though they are like plenty of things you will have heard.

Scarlet SoHandsome and Fiends

For a drag queen, Scarlet SoHandsome is a real sweetie.

Beth Vyse: As Funny as Cancer

Beth Vyse’s show opens in a truly Fringe fashion: handing out ping pong balls to the audience, dressed in a voluminous blonde wig and a huge pair of joke-shop boobs, singing alon…

An Act of Godley: Janey Godley

A status as Fringe favourite and a viral stint for her infamous “Trump is a cunt” sign at the businessman’s visit to the Trump Turnberry golf resort mean that Janey Godley’…

Axis of Awesome: Won't Ever Not Stop Giving Up

In terms of their brand of comedy rock, Axis of Awesome fall more into the rock than comedy genre: there’s far more liberal use of a smoke machine than your average musical comed…

Jamali Maddix: Chickens Come Home to Roost

Jamali Maddix creates a buzz when he enters the stage, and why not? He’s a cool guy.

Bella Younger’s Deliciously Stella

Deliciously Stella is what you expect her to be: if you’ve seen the Instagram account which has become a viral hit with its piss-take of ‘fitspiration’ and other smug hashtag…

Kinsey Sicks: Lady Cocks of Bang Boys

I have binge-watched six series of RuPaul’s Drag Race on Netflix and I love drag queens.

Neal Portenza. Neal Portenza. Neal Portenza. Tracey.

I’ve been mulling over more scholarly words to describe Neal Portenza and his show, but I honestly cannot fight the urge to call it batshit.

Callisto: A Queer Epic

Callisto: A Queer Epic is a thoughtful piece of theatre which explores social conflicts that coincide with the queer lifestyle.

Rowena Hutson: Strong Female Character

Rowena Hutson owes her feminist outlook on life to action heroes of the 1980s.

Rachel Parris: Best Laid Plans

Parris has a seemingly natural knack for creating comedy imbued with emotional depth that doesn’t feel forced or insecure.

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair

Beach Comet have secured themselves as masters of a B-movie musical genre, inviting guests aboard a doomed cruise liner for a riotous hour of exaggerated figures and fantastically …

Lolly 2

Thirty seconds in and an audience member is on the stage already: Lolly Adefope doesn’t mess around.

A Regular Little Houdini

Houdini came to Newport twice in the early twentieth century - not a piece of information you’d find at the top of Houdini’s Wikipedia page, but of utmost significance to young Ala…

Norris & Parker: See You at the Gallows

Dark humour isn’t in short supply this Fringe - in case you hadn’t noticed, celebrity and political news of late has had a tangible effect on performers.

Max & Ivan: Our Story

Max & Ivan are celebrating the anniversary of when they met – and having in recent years become a staple of the Fringe, it’s easy to understand why.

Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Hysterical Woman

Standing defiantly under the glare of a neon working men’s club sign, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean tackles schema in a bold and impressive solo hour.

Shit-Faced Showtime

It’s not too likely that a straight production of The Pirates of Penzance would garner that wide an audience at the Fringe – a Gilbert and Sullivan musical isn’t the most buz…

Mr Swallow – Houdini

It’s not every day you find yourself leaning forward on your seat due to the sheer suspense of a show.

Nick Hall: Szgrabble

Nick Hall’s one-man cold war thriller is an active piece, darting through London, Amsterdam, and under the Iron Curtain to the heart of the Soviet Union, all in the pursuit of a …

Louise Searle Paintings

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Brighton Fringe
Gallery40
16th - 29th May 2016

A solo exhibition showcasing new oil paintings by Brighton-based artist Louise Searle.

Tim Drain: I Know How to Make the Women I Sleep with Laugh

I went into Tim Drain’s show fully prepared for some offensive stuff.

The Graduettes

The Graduettes starts with a great farce premise: flatmates wake up on Christmas morning to find their home robbed and their landlady dead on the floor.

Toys

Jack BK’s original written piece deals with class struggles, privilege and ignorance in a clear and effective way.

Death Actually: A Necromantic Comedy

Death Actually sets out to bring ‘lethal puns and dead funny songs’ in a larger than life musical.

What a Load of Skit

Review
★★★
Louise Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
Chiquito
26th Aug, 2015

It’s clear that the sketch trio made of Oli Gilford, Edd Cornforth and Jake Shoolheifer have good comic potential, and bounce nicely off each other.

BEINGS

Review
★★
Louise Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
24th Aug, 2015

Susan Harrison and Andrew Gentilli are clearly good improvisers, and their joint credentials imply that BEINGS should be a highly entertaining and swift hour of long form improv co…

Cocaine and Potatoes

Matthew Giffen is a charming whirlwind of a man, commanding the audience with his larger-than-life on-stage persona.

Supertown

Robert Sanders and James Sidgwick have created a lightly entertaining musical around superhero tropes and aesthetic, making for cute if not somewhat pantomime-esque hour and a half…

Comedians' Cinema Club

No amount of advance research can prepare you for Comedians’ Cinema Club.

The Wishing-Chair Adventures

Running Torch’s The Wishing-Chair Adventures prides itself on audience interaction.

Ed Gamble: Lawman

Ed Gamble is a man who plays by the rules – his rules, which he probably has laminated and stuck up somewhere around the house.

The Alphabet Girl

Renny Krupinski’s script is an ambitious one: chronicling the lives of one family across three generations, The Alphabet Girl aims to show the destruction of family values and the …

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Children’s entertainment should be brimming with energy, lovable and over-the-top characters, and enchanting tricks.

Eejit of Love

In theory, Eejit of Love is a fun concept: two Irish country bumpkins find themselves swept up in the allure of reality TV, testing their relationship and their own willpower.

Get Your Shit Together

Job losses, painful break ups and junk food - set to music! Get Your Shit Together is the perfect pick me up for 20-somethings in a similar situation, or just a nice dose of Schade…

Peter Brush: Older Than the Oldest Dog That Ever Lived

Low energy comedian Peter Brush brings his awkward persona to rest upon matters of death and religion with a surprisingly lighthearted tone.

Remember Doctor Bubble – the Bubble Magician

Tumbling across the stage with the energy of ten children’s birthday parties, Playhouse International (Romania and Australia) create a completely chaotic environment which is bound…

Sam and Helen: Out There

I’m pretty certain this is the first comedy show I’ve ever been to with an audience dance break.

Dan Nicholas: Reverb (The Love Story of Terrance the Crocodile and Julia the Mannequin)

It’s your classic love story, really: inflatable crocodile meets mannequin head, they fall for each other but soon enough cracks show and they fall apart.

Mae Martin: Us

Mae Martin is an absolute gem on the Free Fringe.

Gobsmacked!

When I was in high school Glee became really popular, and I loved it because it seemed so new and cool and sexy.

Late with Lance!

Lance Jonathan (Peter Michael Marino) has had enough of sitting around as understudy on his dads’ ship the S.

Katherine Ryan: Kathbum

Katherine Ryan makes it clear from the moment she wanders onto the stage and discusses the logic behind R&B song Smell Yo Dick that she doesn’t give a rat’s ass what you think.

Iain Stirling: Touchy Feely

Iain Stirling has an excellent way of working a crowd.

David Elms: Mister Boy

David Elms brings his muted comedic style in the form of musical vignettes.

The Element in the Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy about the Death and Life of Marie Curie

I think I’ve found my new favourite musical, thanks to Tangram Theatre and their amazing piece on one of the 20th century’s most important scientists.

NewsRevue 2015

2015 has surely been a bumper crop for satire.

Eat Me! Drink Me! Buy Me!

“Did she fall or was she pushed?” posits the Mad Hatter (Annie Neat), as Three Mugs of Tea embark on their consumerist take on Alice in Wonderland.

Citizen Puppet

Blind Summit bring a mastery of puppetry to the stage, layering meta-narrative upon verbatim performance upon crime headline in an original look at the aftermath of the Jack and th…

Megan Ford: Feminasty

Feminasty is a rollercoaster of irreverent, witty humour with a real agenda at hand.

The GYF Yorkshire Day Podcast with Robert Ross in Conversation with Mark Addy

Before the podcast officially begins, we’re invited to watch a clip of Yorkshire born and bred actor Mark Addy in action.

Tom Stade

Tom Stade seems to have gone out of his way to be anything but the Canadian stereotype.

Sara Pascoe and The Museum of Robot Pussycats

Feeling spiritual? Sara Pascoe has invented her own religion and we’re all invited! Eschewing the other faiths on offer, Pascoe takes to the stage with her “scripture” professing…

Cariad and Louise's Character Hour

Cariad Lloyd prefaced the show with an announcement - her double act partner, Louise Ford, had left Edinburgh in the last few days due to unforeseen circumstances.

Look Back in Anger

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2011

From the moment I sat down, I knew this was a quality production.

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.

The Just So Stories

After my initial panic at being stuck in a room where the mean age of the audience was about four, I began to relax to the dulcet tones of the performing quartet.

Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore

Walking through the opulent interior of the Brunswick Town hall, we head for the police cells.

Mah Hunt

As their sinuous bodies glided and writhed over the stage, stirring to the wailing undertones of the soundtrack, I was mesmerised.

A Hero Of Our Time

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

I was thrilled to experience a piece of theatre performed in its traditional style but with a fair number of contemporary tweaks to keep the audience on its toes.

Fit for Purpose

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2011

Having interned in an NGO’s office this summer, I found this narrative of two asylum seekers caught in the complexities of the UK Border Agency’s claims system incredibly accur…

Woyzeck

Review
★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2011

I had anticipated a stunningly original production of Woyzeck by the Theatre Oikos company, considering their level of fringe experience and the quality of their text.

Tin Girl Story

Review
★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2011

Tin Girl Story is an interesting production but I am unsure as to whether 29 Shoes Theatre Company chose the appropriate setting, or listing for their creation.

Broken Wing

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2011

On entering Venue 13 I am blown away by the inspired set pieces.

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…

Cluedo

Review
★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
30th Aug, 2011

Maybe it was the ‘sold out’ sign at the box office, or the massive queue, which I waited at the end of, anticipation intensifying with the perceived popularity of the productio…

Newton Faulkner

Review
★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2011

Newton Faulkner, armed with a guitar and a flask of tea, saunters on stage, chatting to the audience as he sets up.

Blues!

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2011

The hour-long musical and cultural immersion created by the Blueswater Collective would have received a perfect five stars if they had started as strongly as they finished.

Qing Cheng

I give this production four stars with some trepidation, as I am not entirely sure whether it is just my sense of Western artistic norms that is holding me back, or if in fact Qing…

A Timetraveller's Guide to Surviving Childhood

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

This was a hilarious, fun and candy-full show.

2011: A Space Oddity

Review
★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2011

Normally when someone is not laughing, and everyone else is, it is because they don’t get the joke.

The Pirates of Penzance

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2011

What I have always loved about Gilbert and Sullivan musicals is the tongue-in-cheek, ‘taking the mick’ style that is elemental to their popularity.

A Stone's Throw

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2011

There is something about small performance spaces - their cosiness, their character - but most of all I enjoy how up-close and personal the actors can be in such venues.

The Fall Children

Review
★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2011

I have always been of the belief that children’s shows require an element of the surreal for both the captivation of the children, and piquing the interest of the parents that pa…

The End

Review
★★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2011

Very occasionally we might have an original idea, and when we do we like to tell others about it; however nothing can be compared to the smugness of Michael Pinchbeck and Ollie Smi…

Review
★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2011

I have very mixed feelings about this multi-genre one-woman play.

Interno 10/B

Review
★★★
Louise Hemfrey
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2011

As the company’s shiny programme will tell you, ten is a very significant number, not least for the total of performers in the production of Interno 10/B.

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