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Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Emma Doran: Dilemma!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Oct 2024
It’s the post-apocalyptic world.
At Home With Will Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th - 26th Aug 2024
Fringe legend Pip Utton (Adolf, Bacon, Dickens, Churchill, Dylan, Maggie, Einstein, Hunchback) is Shakespeare in this moving and comic romp through Will’s life, including some of h…
Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 19th - 24th Aug 2024
What happens when you put Shakespeare’s work through Google Translate 15 times? By deconstructing language, we can examine how we interpret classical text in the 21st century, wh…
Shakespeare's Mothello and Other Parodies
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 19th - 24th Aug 2024
Follow the adventures of Mothello, a mothman version of Othello, who can’t quite get his words out, as they explore the world of Shakespeare’s plays.
Conspiracy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 16th - 25th Aug 2024
Berlin, January 1942.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 13th - 17th Aug 2024
A sophisticated and symbolic exploration and portrayal of the poignant literary works of Shakespeare? Not really.
Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
- 5th - 18th Aug 2024
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Bad Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 5th - 10th Aug 2024
Nature versus nurture? Are villains born or bred? Can they ever find true redemption? Theater OCU explores Shakespeare’s most villainous characters – Macbeth, Iago, Aaron, Tamora…
Migrant Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
- 5th - 11th Aug 2024
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’… Migrant actors take on the Bard, reinterpr…
One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe
- Listing Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
After Shakespeare – Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Listing Theatre
- 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…
ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand.
Andy Roach: Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Laughing at conspiracy theories.
Dragon Shows for Babies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- LifeCare Centre
- 1st - 20th Aug 2024
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Polishing Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
A dotcom billionaire pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English (Wait.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
The Bardic Breakfasters are back for our 33rd Fringe, with a brand-new show, breakfast included! The Tempest meets 10 Things I Hate About You and High School Musical in a teen rom-…
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
The five-star, multi sell-out Fringe phenomenon is back with its hilarious combination of an entirely serious adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and an absolutely s…
Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Emma Holland
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Nominee: Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023. I grew up in Indonesia and have made it my whole personality. This is a show about that.
Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Character comedian Emma Sidi is back at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th Jul - 7th Sep 2024
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th Jul - 7th Sep 2024
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th Jul - 7th Sep 2024
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Marilyn Conspiracy
- Listing
- West End
- Park Theatre
- 19th Jun - 27th Jul 2024
On Wednesday August 1st 1962, seven people gathered at Marilyn Monroe’s home to celebrate her new $2m two-picture deal with 20th Century Fox.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
- 14th May 2023 - 19th May 2024
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
The Queen, Shakespeare and Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th May 2023 - 15th May 2024
Affectionate musical comedy tribute to the world’s longest-serving monarch - a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model who headed up a country & united a commonwealt…
Rubbish Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th - 6th Apr 2024
Enemies.
Rubbish Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th - 6th Apr 2024
Enemies.
Dom Joly - Conspiracy Tourist
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 2nd Mar 2024
“Just because you're paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being followed” Conspiracy theories used to be fun.
Dom Joly: Conspiracy Tourist
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 2nd Mar 2024
“Just because you're paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being followed” Conspiracy theories used to be fun.
Dom Joly: Conspiracy Tourist
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 2nd Mar 2024
“Just because you're paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being followed” Conspiracy theories used to be fun.
Shakespeare's Fool
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- New Wimbledon Theatre
- 8th - 10th Feb 2024
Will ‘Cavaliero’ Kempe was one of the finest performers of the Elizabethan age.
Slippery When Wet by Leanne Devlin, Directed by Emma Copland
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 22nd Aug - 2nd Sep 2023
“I didn’t expect Love to show up at my dreary new job.
Baked Shakespeare: As You Like It
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
Popular South African production, Baked Shakespeare, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! Baked Shakespeare – a group of professionally trained actors – performing Shakespeare ho…
Emma and Harry
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
If you like it you really shouldn’t put a ring on it because it turns out I actually hate you and want to get a divorce.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th Aug - 9th Sep 2023
“I do love nothing in the world so well as BOOZE - is not that strange?" Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® is back home at Leicester Square Theatre with an all-new…
Death by Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 12th Aug, 2023
Hurly Burly’s Death by Shakespeare is a stylised ode to Shakespeare, that lifts and showcases his best-known characters in a tumultuous yet entrancing way.
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Little White Pig
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
Marlon’s a Jew.
Sheldrake on Shakespeare: Live!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 4th - 12th Aug 2023
Much more a comedy gig than a lecture, James Sheldrake brings the spirit of his podcast (Sheldrake on Shakespeare) to Edinburgh for an hour of anecdote, insight, performance, analy…
Mister Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frank Delaney
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 28th Aug, 2023
What a remarkable and fluid performance full of depth and charisma!Mister Shakespeare is a detailed tale penned by Michael Barry, that shows Shakespeare at work in his lodgings.
Illusionati – A Magical Conspiracy
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
The Great Baldini (the “Maharajah of Mystery”) is a magical legend.
After Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
What happens to Shakespeare’s best-loved heroes and most reviled villains after the curtain falls? Come and join a host of familiar Shakespearean characters as they reflect back on…
The Real William Shakespeare... As Told by Christopher Marlowe
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 6th Aug, 2023
Christopher Marlowe is forever fated to be associated with his peer and likely chum William Shakespeare.
A Spaniard's Guide to Learning Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Ever wondered what would happen if Alejandro Murrieta (aka Zorro) decided to become a Shakespearean actor at the Globe in London? Well, imagine if his son decided to do a show acti…
24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jasmine Arden-Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
- 10th Aug, 2023
Wakey wakey, eggs and Shakey!Or rather, a free croissant with Shakespeare.
Andy Roach – Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Andy Roach, Liverpool-based comedian who was shortlisted in the Musical Comedy Awards 2023, returns to Edinburgh.
Upstart! Shakespeare's Rebel Daughter Judith
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
What if Shakespeare had a daughter who inherited his wit and creativity? A retelling of the life of Judith Shakespeare, Upstart gives voice to a feminist born before her time.
Migrant Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 2nd - 6th Aug 2023
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – “trippingly on the tongue”.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out Fringe phenomenon is back! With a genuinely inebriated cast member each night, no two shows are ever the same in this rauco…
Shakespeare Up Late: A Right Royal Visit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jasmine Arden-Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 12th Aug, 2023
I advise you arrive early and treat yourself to a pre-show pint (or two) because it’s that kind of show!I mean this in the best possible way.
Smashing Shakespeare
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2023
Primary Times Children’s Choice Award Winner! Musical-comedy versions of Shakespeare’s greatest works, Brave Macbeth and Juliet & Her Romeo.
Improvised Rubbish Shakespeare – The Incomplete Works
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
Shakespeare’s gone awol so his cast must make it up.
ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2023
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent / The Assembly Rooms Theatre
- 28th - 29th Jul 2023
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent / The Assembly Rooms Theatre
- 28th - 29th Jul 2023
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
Durham Shakespeare Festival - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 27th - 30th Jul 2023
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Durham Shakespeare Festival - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 27th - 30th Jul 2023
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Two bards and a Songbird - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns in song
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 26th - 29th Jul 2023
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
Durham Shakespeare Festival - MACBETH
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 26th - 29th Jul 2023
MACBETH by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s thrilling drama of the power of evil presented by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Mister Shakespeare - An Incomplete Work
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 26th - 27th Jul 2023
A lot is known of The Bards plays but what of the man ? Mister Shakespeare explores the different facets of his personality:The lover, The Husband, The Son, The Entrepreneur throug…
Two bards and a Songbird - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns in song
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 26th - 29th Jul 2023
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
Durham Shakespeare Festival - MACBETH
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 26th - 29th Jul 2023
MACBETH by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s thrilling drama of the power of evil presented by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Mister Shakespeare - An Incomplete Work
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 26th - 27th Jul 2023
A lot is known of The Bards plays but what of the man ? Mister Shakespeare explores the different facets of his personality:The lover, The Husband, The Son, The Entrepreneur throug…
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th Jul - 9th Sep 2023
“I do love nothing in the world so well as BOOZE- is not that strange?" Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® is back home at Leicester Square Theatre with an all …
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th Jul - 9th Sep 2023
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® is back home at Leicester Square Theatre with an all new production of their hit show Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Much Ado About Nothing.
Shit-faced Shakespeare®: Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 7th Jun - 9th Sep 2023
“I do love nothing in the world so well as BOOZE- is not that strange?" Shit-faced Shakespeare® is back home at Leicester Square Theatre with an all …
Sheldrake on Shakespeare: Live!
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Multiple Venues
- 2nd Jun - 23rd Jul 2023
Much more a comedy gig than a lecture, James Sheldrake brings the spirit of his podcast (Sheldrake on Shakespeare) to the stage for an hour of anecdote, insight, performance, analy…
ILLUSIONATI: A Magical Conspiracy
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2023
The Great Baldini (‘Emperor of Illusion’, ‘Prince of Prestidigitation’, and ‘Maharajah of Mystery’) is a magical legend, a music hall relict and an old-school theatrica…
ILLUSIONATI: A Magical Conspiracy
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2023
The Great Baldini (‘Emperor of Illusion’, ‘Prince of Prestidigitation’, and ‘Maharajah of Mystery’) is a magical legend, a music hall relict and an old-school theatrica…
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
- 14th May 2023
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
The Queen, Shakespeare and Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th - 31st May 2023
Affectionate musical comedy tribute to the world’s longest-serving monarch - a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model who headed up a country & united a commonwealt…
A Spaniards guide to Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 6th - 19th May 2023
Ever wondered what would happen if Alejandro De La Vega aka Zorro decided to become a Shakespearean actor at the Globe in London? Well, imagine if his son decided to do a show acti…
A Spaniards guide to Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 6th - 19th May 2023
Ever wondered what would happen if Alejandro De La Vega aka Zorro decided to become a Shakespearean actor at the Globe in London? Well, imagine if his son decided to do a show acti…
The Wholly Divided Trinity Conspiracy of Queen Elizabeth (Near Dublin) - Act 1 of 2
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 16th Feb 2023
We Wrote This Before She Died Disco Trolley Productions A story of two friends, two timelines, one all-powerful wizard, one magical trolley, six Anne Hathaways, and as m…
The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author
- Listing Theatre
- 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
- Listing Theatre
- 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…
Shakespeare Festival 2022
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- St Nicholas Rest Garden
- 21st Aug - 4th Sep 2022
After sell-out seasons for the last two years, The One Fell Swoop Project returns for its third slightly shorter three-week run this summer.
Shakespeare's Fool
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 20th Aug 2022
William ‘Cavaliero’ Kempe was one of the finest performers of the Elizabethan age.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 14th - 28th Aug 2022
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 11th - 13th Aug 2022
The children of Cargilfield School present an abridged version of Shakespeare’s classic love story, performed in the round in Shakespeare’s original language.
My Own Private Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
From a single fateful phone call taken reluctantly from the toilet, a Shakespearean actor finds his world collapsing around him.
Shakespeare's Fool
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 5th - 13th Aug 2022
William ‘Cavaliero’ Kempe was one of the finest performers of the Elizabethan age.
Three Women and Shakespeare's Will
- Review
- ★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 11th Aug, 2022
Three Women and Shakespeare’s Will is is a nice little premise for a play.
Smashing Shakespeare
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Rose Theatre
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
Primary Times Children’s Choice Award winner.
Cameron Gibson - Mysteries; An Hour Of Impossibilities
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Charming Scottish mind reader Cameron Gibson has been amazing audiences all over the world with his fun, engaging and interactive style of stage shows for several years.
Andy Roach: Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Andy Roach, Liverpool-based comedian who was shortlisted in the Musical Comedy Awards 2022, makes his solo Edinburgh debut.
Smashing Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2022
Oh no.
Shakespeare for Kids: This Rough Magic
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
How do you cause a shipwreck or conjure goddesses at will? Tricksy spirit Ariel has you covered.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out Fringe phenomenon is back with their hilarious combination of an entirely serious adaptation of Macbeth, with an entirely s…
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
The Bardic Breakfasters are back! C’s sensational Shakespearience returns for our 31st Fringe, with free coffee and croissants! A pleasing plethora of pentameter, puns and pastry.
Migrant Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 1st - 5th Aug 2022
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’… Migrant actors take on the Bard, reinterpr…
Sh!tfaced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Jul - 10th Sep 2022
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back at Leicester Square Theatre with their version of Romeo and Juliet.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Jul - 8th Sep 2022
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back at Leicester Square Theatre with their version of Romeo and Juliet.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Jul, 2022
William Shakespeare has been kind enough to leave behind a plethora of quotes about drinking.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 22nd May, 2022
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Listing Theatre
- 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.
Migrant Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’.
Migrant Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 21st Oct 2021
This show has been rescheduled from Thu 22 October 2020Sh*t-faced Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out fringe phenome…
Shakespeare's Mad Women
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Lion And Unicorn
- 19th - 23rd Oct 2021
Juliet is about to kill herself.
Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar
- Listing Music
- 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…
English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- GMF Digital Events
- 13th - 30th Sep 2021
https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/
English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- GMF Digital Events
- 13th - 30th Sep 2021
https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/
English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- GMF Digital Events
- 13th - 30th Sep 2021
https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/
English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- GMF Digital Events
- 13th - 30th Sep 2021
https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/
Shakespeare's Fool
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 21st Aug, 2021
Fringe roulette is part of what keeps us coming back year after year.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th - 28th Aug 2021
Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose! The Bard is back.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th - 28th Aug 2021
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th - 28th Aug 2021
Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose! The Bard is back.
William Shakespeare's Henry V
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 13th - 14th Aug 2021
King Henry, recently come to the British throne, sets forth to claim the throne of France.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Shakespeare's Schoolroom Live
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Online
- 7th - 31st Aug 2021
Interactive Virtual Museum Tour live from Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Migrant Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 6th - 28th Aug 2021
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before.
Shakespeare's Schoolroom Live
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 14th Aug 2021
Interactive Virtual Museum Tour live from Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside The Conan Doyle Pub
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well"
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Old Wardour House
- 30th Jul - 1st Aug 2021
After the rip-roaring success of Twelfth Night, Troubadour Stageworks is back and bigger than ever with this summer’s outdoor tribute to the bard! All’s Well That Ends Well …
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare's Wanderers
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
Award-nominated Shakespeare’s Wanderers are delighted to present a new production of Twelfth Night, which will take audiences back to the roaring twenties for an evening of romance…
Russell Brand - Our Little Lives: Shakespeare & Me Live Stream
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Streaming Events
- 14th Jul 2021
Russel Brand takes some life lessons from William Shakespeare.
Audience Choice - Shakespeare's Globe 2021 Season
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
- 18th Jul - 28th Aug 2021
What’s it like to go to the theatre and not know what you’re going to see? Across the summer and for three performances only, it will be up to you to vote for which of …
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 28th Jun - 11th Jul 2021
The genius combination of an hour-long Shakespeare play with a single drunken cast member hurled into the mix for the audience’s delight and delectation.
Shakespeare’s Mad Women
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 21st - 22nd Jun 2021
Juliet is about to kill herself.
Shakespeare’s Mad Women
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 21st - 22nd Jun 2021
Juliet is about to kill herself.
ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 19th - 28th Jun 2021
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand.
ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 19th - 28th Jun 2021
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Macbeth
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Jun - 11th Sep 2021
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Miller
- 15th Jun 2021
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
LJ DA FUNK - Conspiracy Muthaf*cka!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 11th - 26th Jun 2021
Plandemic, 5G, Bill Gates, Agenda 21, Chemtrails, they replaced Avril Lavigne, microchipped vaccines, David Icke’s rusty beanpole, masks masks masks, it’s the flu, it isn’t the flu…
LJ DA FUNK - Conspiracy Muthaf*cka!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 11th - 26th Jun 2021
Plandemic, 5G, Bill Gates, Agenda 21, Chemtrails, they replaced Avril Lavigne, microchipped vaccines, David Icke’s rusty beanpole, masks masks masks, it’s the flu, it isn’t the flu…
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 5th Jun - 11th Jul 2021
Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose! The Bard is back.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 5th Jul, 2021
Impromptu Shakespeare had all the right ingredients for a good night out, as well as a genuine love for William Shakespeare's language, plays and the characters involved.
Shakespeare (She/Her)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Shakespeare’s 21st-century females.
Shakespeare (She/Her)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 4th Jun, 2021
Those who know of William Shakespeare will probably recognise several of his intricate plots.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Warren Outdoors
- 20th - 23rd Aug 2020
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in-between.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE* *But Just The Deaths (and the gory bits too)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Online & Broadcast
- The Space UK
- 18th Aug, 2020
This jaunty little potter through the more gruesome elements of Shakespeare’s works really ‘gets’ the tone needed for this strange 2020 hybrid of live theatre / film / desper…
Amorous Tales of Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 7th - 22nd Aug 2020
Who was Shakespeare’s true love? Anne Hathaway who seduced the young Will.
Shitfaced Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton
- The Warren Outdoors
- 6th Aug - 6th Sep 2020
The genius combination of a one hour long Shakespeare play with a single drunken cast member hurled into the mix for the audience’s delight and delectation.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique “Shakespeare” play inspired by…
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Much Ado Nothing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
They have toured the world, won multiple awards, broken onto London’s West End, survived nine consecutive Edinburgh Fringes and once received a zero-star review in The Times! They …
William Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company
- 28th Jun 2020
William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” A full costumed production of Shakespeare’s classical tragedy, This production is the full uncut script, set in a post-apocalyptic Scotland.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Macbeth
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Jun - 12th Sep 2020
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Macbeth
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Jun - 12th Sep 2020
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Jun 2020 - 11th Sep 2021
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® is back for the 5th year at Leicester Square Theatre and it’s going to be a bloodbath, with their all-new production of Macbeth.
Conspiracy of Orphans
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Rich Mix
- 15th - 17th Nov 2019
Incubated over two years, Created a Monster presents Conspiracy of Orphans.
ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 14th Oct - 11th Nov 2019
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand…Using his language, your audience suggestions and our overactive imaginations, we cre…
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 3rd Oct 2019
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
William Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Barnfield Theatre Ltd / The Loco Klub / The Watermark
- 7th - 21st Sep 2019
Returning home from war, Macbeth encounters three mysterious women, whose prophecy of kingship, sets in motion his ambition, and ultimately his fall into madness and blood.
Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 20th - 24th Aug 2019
Reality TV lurches onto the stage, with four familiar Shakespearean characters competing to win a thousand gold crowns.
Fraser Gibson: Self-ish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 19th - 25th Aug 2019
Fraser Gibson spends his time shamelessly promoting himself about town as a way to make a living.
My Other Self: The Evolution of Shakespeare's Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2019
A bold new adaptation of three of Shakespeare’s most blood soaked plays.
Questions for Quiz Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2019
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare's Life
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
England, 1585.
Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist With Dyspraxia 2
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage / Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up
- 11th - 18th Aug 2019
After the success of his debut hour, political comedian Don Biswas returns to the festival with a brand-new WIP show: Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist with Dyspraxia 2.
The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 7th - 17th Aug 2019
A glorious celebration of the work of the world’s greatest playwright.
Clowns, Lovers, Women in Pants and Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
What makes Shakespeare funny after 400 years? Theatre OCU (Bad Shakespeare, Fringe 2016 and 2018) explores, answers and celebrates the giddy mysteries of love and romance in scenes…
Fifty Shades of Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 5th - 9th Aug 2019
Shakespeare at his most sexy and salacious! A physically dynamic ensemble perform a musical, lyrical mash-up that explores love, sex and relationships in some of the Bard’s most fa…
Shakespeare on a Shoestring: The Comedy of Errors!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
Last seen on the Fringe with their 2017 adaptation of Cymbeline, Shakespeare on a Shoestring is the next generation of the Fringe First Award-winning Shoestring Players.
Death by Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 5th - 9th Aug 2019
A chorus of bawdy spirits lead you through this physically dynamic amalgamation of Shakespeare’s finest death scenes.
Emma Shaw: Help
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar
- 4th - 9th Aug 2019
Emma Shaw needs help.
Guerilla Shakespeare: As You Like It
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- 301-303 Railton Rd
- 4th Aug 2019
On Sunday 4th August, a cast who have just met an hour beforehand will give a completely unrehearsed performance of As You Like It at a secret pop up location in south London!
Hang Drum Virtuoso Milly Hoddo Featuring Guitarist Ryan Gibson
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Vincent’s
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
This virtuoso duo, returning for their third year, are exploring the rich and mellow sounds of hang drums accompanied by acoustic and bass guitar.
Last Life: A Shakespeare Play
- Review
- ★★★★
- Freddie Green
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 17th Aug, 2019
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
Shakespeare! The Panto
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
A side-splitting flashback to the 16th century, where the Bard of Avon is holding auditions for his newest show – a pantomime.
CONSPIRACY
- Review
- ★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 5th Aug, 2019
You are watching three actors sat at a table.
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gillian Bain
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre
- 5th Aug, 2019
Conspiracy theories can sometimes be reduced to light hearted niche interests only fully embraced by weirdos on the fringes of society.
Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Runaways.
Scott Gibson: White Noise
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Scott Gibson, Glasgow’s critically-acclaimed and award-winning son, returns to the Fringe with a brand new hour of darkly comedic storytelling.
Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson: That's Not a Lizard, That's My Grandmother
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Haikney
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
- 5th Aug, 2019
The brainchild of comedians Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson, That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother! is unlike any other show at the Fringe.
Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Enjoy alfresco Shakespeare in the C south gardens.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in-between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique Shakespeare play inspired by a…
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
They have toured the world, won multiple awards, broken onto London’s West End, survived eight consecutive Festival Fringes and once received a zero-star review in The Times! They …
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Shakespeare Up Late!
- Review
- ★★
- Jane Prinsley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 17th Aug, 2019
This 50-minute adaptation of Hamlet is one for Shakespeare lovers with short attention spans.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Hannah Crofts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C viva
- 15th Aug, 2019
Shakespeare for Breakfast is a great show to start your day… and that’s not just because of the complimentary coffee and pastries!It’s the 28th year C theatre have put on a S…
Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C viva
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
A perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s beloved clowns.
R'n'J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Roz and Jules
- Review
- ★★
- Ali Schultz
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 6th Aug, 2019
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Macbeth
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 25th - 28th Jul 2019
The smash-hit, internationally-acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back at The Great Yorkshire Fringe with its brand new production for 2019: M…
Sh*tfaced Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Jul - 14th Sep 2019
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare is back for 2019 and they promise to be wilder, funnier, gorier, more outrageous and drunker than ever before! These Fringe legends have toured the world, br…
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 22nd - 23rd Jul 2019
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in-between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique Shakespeare play in…
Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Whitefield Garrick Theatre
- 10th - 11th Jul 2019
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Poetry-Theatre on Love and Creation – is a unique theatrical work of Shakespeare’s lyrical creation of the sonnets adapted for stage.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: Hamlet
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Jun - 14th Sep 2019
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2019: Taming of the Shrew an…
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: Hamlet
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Jun - 14th Sep 2019
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2019: Taming of the Shrew an…
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 20th - 21st May 2019
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Be Not Afeard: A Sensory Telling of Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 9th - 12th May 2019
Be not afeard.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Faye Butler
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 8th May, 2019
We are greeted by host, James Murfitt, who arrives dressed in sparkly trousers and a disco ball top hat, and explains that the show might be a little “illegal, illicit, illogical…
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★
- Monica Yell
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 29th May, 2019
Consisting of a small team of incredibly brave actors, Impromtu Shakespeare sees them improvising an entire 'Shakespeare' play based on audience suggestions.
A Shakespeare Showcase
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
- 5th May 2019
Aspire’s youth performers present an energetic, dynamic adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most loved comedies: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 4th - 6th May 2019
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Apr - 1st Jun 2019
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2019: Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Apr - 1st Jun 2019
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2019: Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: The Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Apr - 1st Jun 2019
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2019: Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- C. M. Cromie
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 18th Mar, 2019
"Not one for the puritans" is a phrase often used to describe avant-garde Shakespeare productions.
Shakespeare Schools Festival
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 30th Oct - 2nd Nov 2018
Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at Greenwich Theatre.
A Shakespeare Song
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 26th Aug 2018
Cantica Alba, the Edinburgh-based, ten-voiced, a cappella ensemble, directed by Michael Harris, return for their annual Fringe performance.
Secret Cinema presents William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Secret Location
- 24th - 25th Aug 2018
At Secret Cinema, we take the essence of the film and build a living, breathing world that you can be a part of.
The Whole of Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 21st - 25th Aug 2018
Artists of pantomime and clownery Mikhail Kukota and Igor Chekhov are graduates of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.
A Show About Shows About Show Biz
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Shakespeare Catalysts
- Review
- ★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 25th Aug, 2018
Before I begin this review, I would like to clarify, as James Beagon (co-director and actor) did at the start of the show, that Aulos Productions’ Shakespeare Catalysts is a work…
Body Shop
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Brenner
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street / Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 22nd Aug, 2018
Body Shop is a multiplayer, multi-layered human body action game, a future-forward competition where women are assembled according to the stories of their bodies.
Plucked
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Brenner
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 17th Aug, 2018
Plucked is a barnyard fable declaring the high ground on animal cruelty, a sermon on cycles of violence from bird to child to wife.
Scott Gibson: Tales from the Battlefield
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 12th - 15th Aug 2018
Since the beginning of time, comedians have plied their trade on the comedy battlefield.
Bad Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 6th - 11th Aug 2018
Nature versus nurture? Are villains born or bred? Can they ever find true redemption? Theater OCU explores Shakespeare’s most villainous characters – Macbeth, Iago, Aaron, Tamora…
Shakespeare Shorts – Much Ado About Nothing
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 4th - 11th Aug 2018
The buns are burning in The Great Brexit Bake Off as Beatrice battles Benedick, Don Juan’s confused and Hero harassed.
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Little Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 3rd Aug 2018
Two of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes fantastically performed by the 15 to 20-year-old children from two of China’s schools, Shanghai International Studies University and For…
9/11 Was a Conspiracy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joseph McAulay
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 3rd Aug, 2018
Modern dating and a devastating terrorist attack do not, at first, seem like complimentary subject matters for a romantic comedy, and yet in 52Up Production’s new show 9/11 Was a…
Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Haggis, Neeps and Burns
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Brenner
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 27th Aug, 2018
Haggis, Neeps and Burns is about as Scottish as tartan and the trinity.
Shakespeare Shorts – The Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 3rd - 10th Aug 2018
Kate’s cast is revolting; fed up of being outnumbered by the audience, they want to make Shakespeare fun to watch by turning the history plays into a rugby game, Romeo and Juliet…
Macbeth Without the Shakespeare Bollocks Tour
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Coates Cafe
- 5th - 19th Aug 2018
Following on from last year’s successful stand-up show of the same name, Bruce Fummey will take a small group in a people carrier to hear the real story of this much maligned Sco…
Shakespeare in the Garden: As You Like It
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
Enjoy al fresco Shakespeare in the C south gardens.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in-between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique Shakespeare play inspired by a…
Shakespeare for Kids: Under the Greenwood Tree
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
Meet William Shakespeare and some of his fabulous friends on a mission to change the world! Adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
The Marilyn Conspiracy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
August 5, 1962.
Scott Gibson: Anywhere but Here
- Review
- ★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 6th Aug, 2018
Humans are storytellers.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 9th Aug, 2018
For the 27th run of this Edinburgh Fringe staple, C Theatre have utilised a cast of four to present this contemporary pidgin adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Listing Theatre
- 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.
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★
- Jane Beeston
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 18th Aug, 2018
If you haven’t already heard of this band of bawdy, Bardy performers, it prompts the question, “Is this your first time to the Fringe?” If the answer is yes - what have you b…
Emma Sidi: Faces of Grace
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Christine Kempell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th Aug, 2018
Emma Sidi’s one-woman show Faces of Grace is absolutely bonkers.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare - Hamlet
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 25th - 28th Jul 2018
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back at ‘The Great Yorkshire Fringe’ with their latest production of Haml…
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 20th Jun - 1st Sep 2018
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2018: The Merchant of Venice and Romeo…
Emma Morton and the Graces
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 29th May 2018
Scottish singer-songwriter Emma Morton’s ascendancy through the European music scene has seen her work gain high-profile recognition.
A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2018
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★
- Johanna Makelainen
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 12th May, 2018
Shit-faced Shakespeare is one of those things you either love or hate, a bit like Stilton cheese or anchovies.
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 9th May, 2018
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Shakespeare’s Mad Women (A Love Letter to Shakespearean F*ckboys)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 5th - 6th May 2018
A new writing comedy exploring what happens when the ‘mad’ women of Shakespeare find themselves dead, together, and angry.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: The Merchant of Venice
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th Apr - 2nd Jun 2018
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with TWO new shows for 2018: The Merchant of Venice and Romeo…
Shit-faced Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th Apr - 2nd Jun 2018
The multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London for 2018 with two new shows kicking off with The Merchant of Venice (18th April - 2nd June).
Scott Gibson: Like Father, Like Son
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Mar 2018
Award-winning comedian Scott Gibson returns with his sold-out, smash-hit Fringe show ‘Like Father, Like Son’.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
★★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★ Time Out ★★★★ Metro (UK) ★★★★ WhatsOnStage (UK) ★★★★ London Theatre This multi-award winning, interactive, cult-…
Emma Hack Art Prize
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- Burnside Village Fashion Mall
- 9th - 18th Mar 2018
The Emma Hack Art Prize is a $5000 acquisitive art prize with a People’s Choice Prize of $2000.
Emma Dean: Broken Romantics
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- La Bohème
- 28th Feb 2018
A show for the warriors of love, the ragtag-hearted heroes, the beautiful, the brave, the healed and the crushed.
Impromptu Shakespeare plus Will Luera and Friends/United
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 2nd Dec 2017
Impromptu Shakespeare create an entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ play Will Luera has flown in from Boston to perform with a crack team of players United is an improvisation sh…
Side Shows
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- 25th - 26th Nov 2017
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Impromptu Shakespeare plus United
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 4th Nov 2017
Impromptu Shakespeare create an entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ play on the spot, inspired by audience suggestion.
Impromptu Shakespeare plus Joe Bill, Heather Urquhart and Jules Munns
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 7th Oct 2017
Impromptu Shakespeare create an entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ play on the spot, inspired by audience suggestion.
Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Market
- 17th - 25th Aug 2017
Marlon’s a Jew.
Shakespeare's Big Brother
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 14th - 18th Aug 2017
Can Hamlet please come into the diary room? You’ve had regular Big Brother.
Shakespeare on a Shoestring: Cymbeline!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
Shoestring returns! The next generation of the Fringe First Award-winning Shoestring Players bring their trademark fast-paced and irreverent take on Shakespeare’s most troubled p…
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 13th - 19th Aug 2017
Shakespeare’s enduring comedy bubbles with youthful wit.
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Market
- 12th - 26th Aug 2017
Marlon’s a Jew.
US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 10th - 21st Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Little Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 10th Aug 2017
Two of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes fantastically performed by the nine to 16-year-old children from two of China’s schools, Chongqing Foreign Language School and Chongqing…
Live Shows in an Internet Media Age
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 9th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★
- Caitlin Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 11th Aug, 2017
Ghost Light Players have brought an animalistic Hamlet to theSpace on the Mile with fervour and intensity.
Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans
- Review
- ★★★★
- Caitlin Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 10th Aug, 2017
Where there is Fringe, there is Shakespeare, and Rolling In The Aisle Productions have returned to Edinburgh with a fresh faced, family friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelf…
Scott Gibson: Like Father Like Son
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 7th - 26th Aug 2017
The winner of the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer is back with an honest and frank insight into the men who have influenced and impacted his life.
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 52 Canoes (Grassmarket)
- 6th - 26th Aug 2017
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bar Bados Complex
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
Marlon’s a Jew.
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Market
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
Marlon’s a Jew.
Smashing Shakespeare
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre
- 4th - 14th Aug 2017
Musical comedy versions of Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.
Will Shakespeare's ImproMusical
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
A cast of expert improvisers promise a fast-paced, tuneful turn on the Bard’s works as if Shakespeare met Sondheim.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 4th - 9th Aug 2017
Exploring all of the potential love triangles the original story has to offer, the world’s most beloved couple receives a fresh, re-imagined staging as told through the eyes of the…
Death by Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 4th - 12th Aug 2017
A chorus of bawdy spirits lead you through this physically dynamic amalgamation of Shakespeare’s finest death scenes, which fuse together familiar characters and scenes to create a…
Shakespeare for Kids: Toil and Trouble
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2017
Meet William Shakespeare, and some of his fabulous friends for a truly magical experience.
Shakespeare in the Garden: The Tempest
- Review
- ★★★
- Uri Inspector
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 23rd Aug, 2017
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, The Tempest demands the most obvious and taxing effort of imagination from the audience.
Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Left Wing Conspiracy Theorist (With Dyspraxia)
- Review
- ★★★
- Uri Inspector
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 30th Aug, 2017
Armed with exhaustive statistics, a wild imagination and a uniquely hilarious take on current events and systemic conspiracies, Don Biswas delivers a frantic hour of lighting-fast …
Aaaaaaargh! Macbeth… Without the Shakespeare Bollocks
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Bruce’s comic observations probe deep into medieval Scotland.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★
- Millie Bayswater
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 11th Aug, 2017
Returning for yet another year at the Fringe Impromptu Shakespeare bring us a fun little romp of an hour, packed a plenty with witty one-liners and every Shakespearean trope under …
Reduced Shakespeare Company – William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (Abridged)
- Review
- ★★★
- Lily Lindon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 9th Aug, 2017
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 6th Aug, 2017
A morning staple of the festival Fringe, Shakespeare for Breakfast (with its customary coffee and croissant) has provided a fun twist on the Bard’s classics at C venues for over …
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 13th Aug, 2017
Some things seem as traditional to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as being bombarded with flyers on the Royal Mile.
Scott Gibson: Like Father Like Son
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
The winner of the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer is back with an honest and frank insight into the men who have influenced and impacted his life.
Impromptu Shakespeare and The Maydays’ Happily Never After
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 21st Jul 2017
Impromptu Shakespeare improvise a new & unique Shakespeare play on the spot from audience suggestions, while The Maydays present Happily Never After – a dark, twisted musical tal…
Storyland Author Readings
- Listing Spoken Word
- 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.
Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2017
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Shakespeare's Henry IV: A Pub Wake
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 14th May - 1st Jun 2017
Join Falstaff, Hal and the regulars at the Boar’s Head Tavern to raise a glass to the dear departed.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Review
- ★★★
- Julia French
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 20th May, 2017
“Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 13th - 14th May 2017
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
Scott Gibson: Life After Death
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 12th - 14th May 2017
Winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2016; this show tells the story of the three weeks that changed Scott’s life forever.
From Muses to Music: The Sonnets by The Shakespeare Heptet
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Mary’s Church
- 11th - 13th May 2017
Blending many influences, The Shakespeare Heptet’s distinct sound is alluring and wholly contemporary, providing a stunning soundtrack to the sonnets.
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 8th - 9th May 2017
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Transgender Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 6th - 16th May 2017
Introduced in last year’s Brighton Fringe, Rory and Simon are back, still struggling with the age-old problem of family communications.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- London Fringe
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 14th Apr, 2017
Shit-faced Shakespeare is the Fringe favourite combination of high theatre and falling-down drunkenness.
The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Water Poet
- 19th Feb 2017
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Consort of Voices Presents – Shakespeare Songs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Canongate Kirk
- 27th Aug 2016
Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk for our eighth consecutive year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Shakespeare Tonight
- Review
- ★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 25th Aug, 2016
In Shakespeare Tonight, the famous playwright gives his first ever television performance on a talk show with host Martina, only to be confronted by his so-called ‘enemy’, huma…
Solo Shakespeare, Macbeth: Hecate's Poison
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Quaker Meeting House
- 19th Aug, 2016
Hecate’s Poison is a one-woman version of Macbeth, performed by Players Tokyo’s T.
Simon Lukacs Shows His Range
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
- 15th - 23rd Aug 2016
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Lady Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 19th Aug, 2016
This one-woman show by playwright Lois Blanco involves Spanish actress Paula Blanco alternately playing William Shakespeare, a range of Shakespeare’s individual female characters…
Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 12th - 27th Aug 2016
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Into the Shadows of Shakespeare – Free
- Review
- ★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th Aug, 2016
The Tempest, retold by children whose first language isn’t even English.
The Shakespeare Monologues for Auditions
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 8th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A Fool’s Paradise: 30 Shakespeare Scenes in 60 Minutes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 13th Aug, 2016
For a fast-paced, fun show filled with audience interaction, A Fool’s Paradise might be for you.
Shakespeare on Love
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 8th Aug, 2016
Shakespeare on Love offers a heartwarming performance given by a group of Milwaukee high school students: the brainchild of their two English teachers.
Little Shakespeare
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 6th Aug 2016
Official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Shorts – Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 6th - 13th Aug 2016
Balthasar’s bemused, Romeo’s a wuss and the Friar’s on the fiddle but Juliet Capulet calls the shots in an ice cream war with the Montagues.
Shakespeare Shorts – Romeo and Juliet
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 6th - 13th Aug 2016
Balthasar’s bemused, Romeo’s a wuss and the Friar’s on the fiddle but Juliet Capulet calls the shots in an ice cream war with the Montagues.
Shakespeare Shorts – Hamlet
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 5th - 12th Aug 2016
Hamlet’s got the hump.
Shakespeare Syndrome
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 8th Aug, 2016
In Shakespeare Syndrome, brought to Edinburgh by the talented Mermaidsgroup from the University of St.
Shakespeare Shorts – Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 12th Aug, 2016
Shakespeare Shorts: Hamlet - Shakespeare’s Hamlet condensed into an hour by kids, for kids.
Bad Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 10th Aug, 2016
Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance.
The Shakespeare Club
- Review
- ★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 9th Aug, 2016
In the programme, The Shakespeare Club promises to be a somewhat cheesy, yet harmless play about finding oneself through Shakespeare’s characters.
Shakespeare in the Garden: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Will poor Viola ever find her twin brother Sebastian? Expect adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Review
- ★★★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 8th Aug, 2016
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
The Play's the Thing: Shakespeare for Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
William Shakespeare is back for his 400th anniversary, but he needs your help with his newest play.
Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 13th Aug, 2016
Every single audience member is given a ping pong ball with Shakespearean tropes written on them upon entry.
The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 12th Aug, 2016
Fun for parents and children alike, The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare is a brilliant introduction to Shakespeare: the man and his plays.
Adrian Gray's The 007 Conspiracy: James Bond's Terrifying Truth, Exposed!
- Review
- ★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 22nd Aug, 2016
The internet seems to have triggered a new dawn for conspiracy nuts everywhere.
William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 11th Aug, 2016
In a festival saturated with comedy shows about Shakespeare, the Reduced Shakespeare Company continue to reign supreme as the undisputed masters at reimagining the Bard into hilari…
Emma Sidi: Telenovela
- Review
- ★★★★
- Iona Gaskell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 22nd Aug, 2016
Emma Sidi manages to squeeze in all of our favourite soap opera tropes, from relationship problems to paternity tests, drug addiction to hot-headed murder (don’t worry no spoiler…
Shakin' Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 17th Aug, 2016
Shakin’ Shakespeare does an incredible job at presenting the playwright’s work in an accessible and side-splittingly funny way.
Scott Gibson: Life After Death
- Review
- ★★★★★
- chhewitt95
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 21st Aug, 2016
This is Scott Gibson’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, and he is fantastic.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 11th Aug, 2016
What Edinburgh Fringe would be complete without a trip to Shakespeare for Breakfast? Now in its 25th year at the festival, the group have not lost their touch.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets Do Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 16th Aug, 2016
Possibly the most ridiculous show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets are in their ninth year and were greeted with a sell-out audience.
Shit-Faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 24th Aug, 2016
The Edinburgh Fringe ‘smashed’-hit Shit-Faced Shakespeare returns in its seventh year to perform Measure for Measure in its unorthodox and unique inebriated manner.
Shakespeare's Avengers Assembleth: Age of Oberon
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Blue Orange Theatre
- 30th Jul 2016
Oberon’s gone mad.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 22nd May 2016
Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself.
Shit-faced Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
- Review
- ★★★★★
- James Price
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 21st May, 2016
For those of you who have yet to encounter the fringe phenomenon that is Shit-Faced Shakespeare, this is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin.
Shakespeare in the Garden
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Pavilion Gardens Cafe
- 18th - 20th May 2016
2016 commemorates 400 years since Shakespeare’s death and the BRIT School mark this event with their annual Shakespeare season at Brighton Fringe.
Transgendered Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 14th - 28th May 2016
Communication? Between a father and a child? How difficult can that be? Communication? Between a father and a transgender child? How much of a nightmare can that be? After 400 ye…
Shakespeare's Avengers Assembleth: Age of Oberon
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rialto Theatre
- 11th - 15th May 2016
Ever wondered what would happen if Shakespeare was kidnapped by a crazed fairy king in an enchanted forest? With the fate of the Bard and his mystical infinity quill in the balance…
Valentines Shows
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield / Magnet Theater / The Stand
- 9th - 14th Feb 2016
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
Emma Kirkby
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
- 14th Oct 2015
This pure-voiced soprano, much admired for her contributions to the early music scene, joins the lutenist Jakob Lindberg for a program of English songs.
The Cocaine Conspiracy
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 23rd Aug 2015
The cocaine trade has enormous social and ecological consequences on both global and local scales.
The HandleBards: Secret Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 18th - 26th Aug 2015
Join the HandleBards on their bikes and cycle to a secret location in Edinburgh for a Fringe experience unlike any other.
The Jeremy Kyle Show Does Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Chiquito (venue 294)
- 19th Aug, 2015
A young girl swears she will kill herself if her parents won’t let her date her boyfriend.
Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 14th - 29th Aug 2015
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 19th Aug, 2015
This is a superb student production from St Edward’s School, under the direction of Jamie Johnstone and co-director Rebecca Clark.
Self-Marketing for Actors: Spotlight's Emma Dyson
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 12th Aug 2015
Spotlight’s Emma Dyson will be giving essential advice on how best to market yourself in the industry, covering everything from CVs, photos and showreels, to how to approach agents…
Marching for Necie
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 17th Aug, 2015
We open with a group of young Southern belles, beautifully attired in vintage-style dresses, learning how to apply make-up to please their husbands, so setting up the conservative …
18 Foot Story
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th Aug, 2015
Sometimes a production doesn’t come together and it’s not for a lack of trying.
Women of the Mourning Fields
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 16th Aug, 2015
This is a play for fans of Greek tragedy and theatre nerds.
Shakespeare in the Garden: Cheer Up, Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 23rd Aug, 2015
It can be hard for a children’s show to be entertaining for both adults and children simultaneously, but Captivate Theatre’s latest addition to their Shakespeare series is effo…
Shakespeare Shorts – Macbeth
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 8th - 15th Aug 2015
Macbeth’s afraid of his missus, the witches think they’re on Masterchef and a pair of murderers want Banquo’s head on a platter.
Every Brilliant Thing
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2015
Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant.
Mrs Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Oliver Lennard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 13th Aug, 2015
Mrs Shakespeare is a bold and thought provoking show about a woman struggling to find her own identity in a male-dominated world, as told by a gender-bent reincarnation of William …
Open
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 11th Aug, 2015
Taking place in the greatest of British institutions — a chip shop — on election night, Open is a devised work by the student-run Nottingham New Theatre.
Shakespeare in the Garden: Brave Macbeth
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Brave Macbeth returns to The Famous Spiegeltent in St Andrew Square after a successful run in 2014.
David Mulholland's Conspiracy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Waverley Arches
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
David Mulholland's Conspiracy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
Da-Da-Darling
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 15th Aug, 2015
This evocative dance performance is as notable for the process by which it was made as it is for the quality of the final product.
Shakespeare in the Garden: Romantic Romeo
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Romeo loves Juliet, but does she love him too? Romantic Romeo gets its debut this year in the Famous Spiegeltent as part of Captivate’s musical Shakespeare series.
Death by Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 15th Aug, 2015
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale”.
Shakespeare's Avengers Assembleth: Age of Oberon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 12th Aug, 2015
When William Shakespeare is kidnapped by Oberon, the fairy king, it is up to his team of Avengers to rescue him and keep Oberon from re-writing his plays (and the sonnets.
Light Boxes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2015
A space at Summerhall has been transformed into a forest.
Shakespeare Shorts – Comedy of Errors
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 7th - 14th Aug 2015
Multiple mistaken identity as confusion and hilarity reign.
The Hampstead Murder Mystery!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 18th Aug, 2015
When High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks is found dead, Detective Inspector Chippenfield and Detective Sergeant Rolfe are on the case to find the killer.
The Beanfield
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 18th Aug, 2015
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a violent police intervention in which more than 500 travellers were arrested in a field on their way to a new-age…
Eclipse
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 15th Aug, 2015
It’s August 1999 and a group of Bristol teenagers have returned from a trip to Cornwall where they went to see an eclipse.
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 13th Aug, 2015
Fans of Charles Dickens will love this charming one-man show performed by Ian Pearce, which he adapted from a short story.
slut (r)evolution (no one gets there overnight)
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 11th Aug, 2015
In this fun one-woman show, a self-described bi-dyke shares with us stories of her sexual evolution, from Mormon adolescent scanning second-hand books for smut, to monogamous domes…
Scarlet Shambles: It Used to Be Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
- 14th Aug, 2015
Best described as cabaret with some clowning thrown in, Scarlet Shambles: It Used To Be Me is a delightful surprise.
Invisible Woman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 12th Aug, 2015
A superb one-woman show from Kate Cook, Invisible Women tells of the thrilling adventures of a repressed housewife and sometime poet turned WWII operative.
Dead Man's Cell Phone
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 14th Aug, 2015
Jean is sitting in a cafe enjoying a lobster bisque when a phone nearby starts to rings.
The Outsider
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 15th Aug, 2015
Conceived and performed by stage magician Janne Raudaskoski, The Outsider is a spectacular piece of theatre illusion.
The Turn of the Screw
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 15th Aug, 2015
An adaptation of the classic gothic horror by Henry James, this show promises chills and thrills but didn’t send too many shivers up my spine.
The Play's the Thing: Shakespeare for Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
Come to the Globe Playhouse and meet William Shakespeare himself! An enchanting journey through Shakespeare’s most famous characters will start a love for his work that will last a…
My Name is Saoirse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 15th Aug, 2015
Set in an attic sewing room, Saoirse’s life is presented to us as a form of patchwork quilt.
Shakespeare in the Garden: What You Will
- Review
- ★★★
- Suzanna Swanson-Johnston
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 14th Aug, 2015
Shakespeare’s body of work is well-traveled by theatrical patrons – some might say imposingly so.
Shakespeare Untold: Romeo and Juliet (The Party Planner's Tale)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alexander Gillespie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2015
Adapting Romeo and Juliet for a younger audience is by no means an easy feat.
Shit-Faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 13th Aug, 2015
In Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3, the Porter states “Drink [.
The Underbelly Radio Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 28th Aug 2015
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
Emma Sidi: Character Breakdown
- Review
- ★★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2015
When you see a comedian get a laugh from taking a sip of water you know they’ve got good timing.
I Am Not Myself These Days
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2015
This adaptation of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s autobiography by writer/performer Tom Stuart is in turns sympathetic and shocking.
Fable
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2015
A charming storytelling piece that fuses spoken word and music, Fable from the Flanagan Collective charts the story of ‘J’.
Mistaken: A Quartet of Plays for One Actor
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 13th Aug, 2015
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
The Cherry Orchard: Beyond the Truth
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 11th Aug, 2015
I wasn’t supposed to be reviewing this show, but on a friend’s recommendation (“three Korean ladies doing Chekhov.
Shakespeare Untold: Double Bill
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
Celebrate Shakespeare’s Globe’s Fringe debut by seeing both Shakespeare Untold shows (The Party Planner’s Tale based on Romeo and Juliet and The Pie Maker’s Tale based on Titus And…
Cartography
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 19th Aug, 2015
This is a story of Sarah, a lover of maps and trigonometry.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- J W Close
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 10th Aug, 2015
Shakespeare for Breakfast is to Fringe as dawn is to day: whilst you could technically have one without it, it really wouldn’t feel very right.
Shakespeare Untold: Titus Andronicus (The Piemaker's Tale)
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2015
‘One-man Titus Andronicus for Kids’ sounds like one of those joke titles you suggest to late-night improv troupes.
Joe Calarco's 'Shakespeare's R&J'
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Tabard Theatre
- 30th Jun - 8th Aug 2015
“Shakespeare’s R&J” is an exciting and refreshing new adaptation of Shakespeare’s original love story.
Shows for Days
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
- 31st May 2015
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
Shit-faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lucy Skinner
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 29th May, 2015
I first heard of Shit-faced Shakespeare when I performed my first Edinburgh Fringe play back in 2013; it was one of those plays that ‘everyone was talking about’ and of course …
The Improverts - Exam Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh
- Teviot Debating Hall, Teviot Row House
- 14th - 15th May 2015
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
Shakespeare in the Garden
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Pavilion Gardens Cafe
- 12th - 15th May 2015
The BRIT School returns to Brighton Fringe with their annual Shakespeare season. This year the plays performed will be ‘The Comedy of Errors’, ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘Henry V’.
Mrs Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lois Zoppi
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 10th May, 2015
William Shakespeare has been reincarnated as a woman and is the cause of confusion and frustration for her therapist, Henry.
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 7th - 25th May 2015
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
The Rove
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Banks
- London Fringe
- Battersea Arts Centre
- 9th Mar, 2015
Stories have always been at the heart of cultural inheritance – the myths we pass on about self, family and nation – and today is no different.
Game
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 9th Mar, 2015
The rising trend in ‘poverty porn’ suggests that there’s money in laughing at, scorning at and ultimately punishing the socially and economically deprived.
The Improverts - London Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 9th - 10th Jan 2015
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
Piano Music of Erik Satie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 31st Aug, 2014
In the surrounds of St Cecilia’s Hall, my view of pianist Peter Bream is through a glass case displaying a set of tartan-clad bagpipes.
The Genius of George Gershwin
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 26th Aug, 2014
Gershwin fans will enjoy this programme of carefully selected tunes as well as biographical readings, including letters between Gershwin and his brother and collaborator Ira.
Send More Paper
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 24th Aug, 2014
Billed as an uplifting tale about murder, Send More Paper is entertaining and thought provoking in equal measures.
RM Hubbert with Emma Pollock
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 20th Aug 2014
Scottish Album of the Year award winner RM Hubbert is joined by former Delgado and Chemikal Underground labelmate Emma Pollock for this unmissable solo/duo double-bill.
Architects and Anarchists
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 20th Aug, 2014
This is a play about a writer, the girl he loves and the characters in his head.
News Junkie
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 21st Aug, 2014
This piece from Japan seeks to present a slice of life.
Peter Pan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 23rd Aug, 2014
This fun new adaptation of JM Barrie’s classic story begins in Priceland.
Flat Pack
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 22nd Aug, 2014
Flat Pack is a coming-of-age story.
The Electra Project
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 21st Aug, 2014
This play, about a group of high school students attempting to adapt the Greek classic with disastrous consequences, thankfully doesn’t end in a case of life imitating art, altho…
Mark Thompson: The Secrets of the Universe... Exposed
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 19th Aug, 2014
The welcome recording over the PA tells us that this event is part of the Assembly Rooms’ ‘Enchanting ideas’ series for a ‘more discerning audience’, getting a chuckle …
Connected
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceCabaret @ 54
- 20th Aug, 2014
In this solo show about an ambitious crooner, we see Frank Corelli in an interrogation room, prompted to reveal the story that got him there.
Reduced Shakespeare Company in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised)
- Review
- ★★★
- Megan Dalton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Aug, 2014
This fun and fast production attempts to abridge the complete works of Shakespeare into the space of an hour.
Lucy Worsley: A Very British Murder
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 19th Aug, 2014
Who doesn’t love a good murder? Most of Britain does apparently and this preoccupation is not a recent event.
Interpreting Shakespeare with Ian McDonald and Liz Carruthers
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 16th Aug 2014
Led by poet and translator Ian McDonald and director Liz Carruthers, this practical workshop will explore innovative ways of adapting Shakespeare and other works of fiction.
Jerry Sadowitz: Card Tricks and Close-up Magic
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 19th Aug, 2014
Prepare to be offended and amazed.
Such a Nice Girl
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- just Festival
- 20th Aug, 2014
Eilidh has a problem.
Song Noir - The Director's Cut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th Aug, 2014
It should be a speakeasy with small round tables and lowballs of stiff drinks on the rocks – but it ain’t.
Bob Downe: Bob, Sweat and Tears
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 23rd Aug, 2014
He claims he’s now been knighted as Sir Robert Downe (you can call him Count Downe, geddit?) but that isn’t the only outlandish claim made at this fabulous frolic of a cabar…
Story Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Aron Penczu
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C too
- 31st Aug, 2014
The Year Out Drama Company’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing begins with a game of charades and its brisk humour quickly melts away my scepticism.
Into the Woods JR
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 11th Aug, 2014
In this abridged version of Into the Woods I wasn’t sure if the ‘junior’ part would refer to the length or the audience appropriateness of the play.
Shakespeare in Song
- Review
- ★★★
- Hannah Lucy Baker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 14th Aug, 2014
Shakespeare in Song attempts to bring the works of Shakespeare to life using songs from through the centuries and chosen complimentary verses.
Neverland
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 14th Aug, 2014
This lovely piece of devised work opens with the young cast, paint-splattered and white-faced, arranged on a row of chairs, from which they begin a choreographed series of movement…
The Usherettes
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 19th Aug, 2014
This romp through the bygone days of grand movie theatres and classic films is brought to us by Jean (Karen Levick) and Pearl (Helen Wood).
The Selkie and the River God
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 16th Aug, 2014
This play explores the enduring Celtic mythology of Selkies – mythical seal-like creatures who, once ashore, can shed their skin, appear as beautiful women and have their hearts …
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
- Review
- ★★★
- Aron Penczu
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 19th Aug, 2014
Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits does pretty much what it says on the tin: runs through some of the Bard’s best-known monologues and soliloquies, from Jaques’ “All the world’s…
London Life
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceCabaret @ 54
- 15th Aug, 2014
If this show had simply featured the songs of the Three Belles – an Andrews Sisters-inspired act with delightful voices and glorious harmonies – and some references to the 1…
Totally Devoted
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 19th Aug, 2014
The worst thing about this show is that there’s a life-size cardboard cut-out of Robert Pattinson onstage the entire time.
Austen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 11th Aug, 2014
Writing fiction in Jane Austen’s time was deemed a frivolous thing and, with this considered, the frivolity of a musical is certainly an appropriate way to present her life.
Tap Into Health: Movin' With Melvin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 21st Aug, 2014
Movin’ Melvin Brown is in town doing two different high-energy shows on alternating nights.
Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 8th - 23rd Aug 2014
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
How to Be a Professional Actor: Spotlight’s Emma Dyson and Annelie Powell
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 7th Aug 2014
Spotlight’s Emma Dyson and casting director Annelie Powell will be giving essential career advice on everything from CV’s, photos and showreels, to how to approach agents and c…
X and Y
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 6th Aug, 2014
The title for this play comes from the chromosomes that arbitrarily define gender.
Shakespeare, His Wife and the Dog
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kyung Oh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 10th Aug, 2014
After a successful career in London as a playwright and actor, William Shakespeare has returned home to his wife in Stratford.
Like a Virgin
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 9th Aug, 2014
Like a Virgin has an intriguing concept, promising bubble-gum pop and teen rites of passage.
Riding With Night
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilrig Studio
- 8th Aug, 2014
Riding with Night opens with an ensemble of black-cloaked figures, their faces masked, and a voiceover providing an epilogue to the play we are about to see.
The Waterbabies
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 8th Aug, 2014
I had high expectations for this adaptation of one of my childhood favourites.
Nevada: It Ain’t Just About Vegas, Baby!
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Church Hill Theatre
- 8th Aug, 2014
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Church Hill Theatre
- 4th - 9th Aug 2014
In the surreal world of Ephesus, mistaken identities and mishaps abound as Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio encounter their Ephesan doppelgangers, each unaware of the …
Whimsical Grimm
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th Aug, 2014
This adaptation by Stephen Williams follows the stories of Clever Gretel (no relation to Hansel) and Silly Kate Elizabeth.
Like Fireworks, Like Butterflies
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 8th Aug, 2014
Tracing the life of Korean dancer Choi Seung-hee, this solo show is surprising and delightful.
The Secret Collector
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 6th Aug, 2014
Jack lives on an island where the community calls itself idyllic.
Bristol Improv Steals the Show - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Whynot?
- 17th Aug, 2014
The premise for this clever improvised show is to poach from the best of the Fringe.
Drowning Scott
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 10th Aug, 2014
“Would you rather die by drowning or die of cancer?”Scott would rather drown.
Paper Play
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 12th Aug, 2014
Paper Play is the story of a boy who climbed to a great height to see what he could see.
Plaza Suite
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 8th Aug, 2014
Neil Simon’s comedy is made up of three self-contained acts in three different explorations of relationships, all of which take place in the same room at the Plaza Hotel in Manha…
The Spork Conspiracy
- Review
- ★★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Wee Red Bar
- 12th Aug, 2014
This young rag-tag bunch of misfits share with us an eclectic mix of sketch, stand up, and general tom-foolery.
Cameron Gibson : Mind Your Head
- Listing Magic
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CC Blooms
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2014
Cameron knows what you’re thinking.
Working Title: The Orpheus Project
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C too
- 11th Aug, 2014
A slick piece of cyberpunk with noir flourishes, The Orpheus Project is an atmospheric re-imagining of Kafka’s The Trial combined with the myth of Orpheus and his quest to bring …
Other Voice Spoken Word Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 10th Aug, 2014
Hosted by the effulgent (according to her title card) Fay Roberts, this event did as promised, presenting diverse voices from a number of different spoken word artists.
Play Dough
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 23rd Aug, 2014
In this energetic play presented as a game-show the audience is divided into two teams and sat facing one another across the playing space.
Prelude to a Number
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 8th Aug, 2014
Prelude to a Number is a show about maths: more specifically, it’s about the ‘golden number’ phi, which is related to the Fibonacci sequence and is all around us, although we…
Shakespeare's Avengers Assembleth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 12th Aug, 2014
The scene is Renaissance Europe.
Mary, the Last Farewell
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Elim
- 5th Aug, 2014
Performed in the stately Edinburgh Elim church, Mary the Last Farewell is a historical drama about the life of the Queen of Scots.
Victorian Vices – Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 20th Aug, 2014
From the corridors of a modern hotel we enter Victorian London in this immersive musical theatre piece.
David Mulholland's Conspiracy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St John’s
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
This comedy show started with a question: Why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
The Decline and Fall of Marcus Distilius
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 24th Aug, 2014
Forget Justin Bieber and his legions of ‘beliebers’.
The Shakespeare Revue
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Those familiar with Shakespeare and fans of musicals will enjoy Emanuel Theatre Company’s fun romp that mashes the two genres together.
Loud Poets
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 24th Aug, 2014
It’s not often you’re treated to performance poetry in a setting with as much production value as this.
Trojan Women
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 9th Aug, 2014
In this retelling of Euripides’ tragedy, the Trojan War has ended but the women of Troy are still to discover their fates and more tragedies.
Shakespeare's Villains
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 12th Aug, 2014
The California Shakespeare Ensemble’s exploration of Shakespeare’s greatest villains reminds us why the Bard can’t be beat.
I Before You
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 7th Aug, 2014
“It’s the game show of all game shows!” our host tells us as we begin.
The Ukulele Evangelists Bang One Out
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th Aug, 2014
Much as if I’d been with real-life evangelists, I imagine, I left this show wondering what on earth had just happened.
Tabularasa
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 6th Aug, 2014
Combining contemporary and African dance, four dancers put on an impressive physical display in Kaneish Dance Theatre’s Tabula Rasa.
Obscura
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gryphon@WestEnd
- 3rd Aug, 2014
Christian Cagigal’s Obscura is an utterly charming magic show, but it’s more than that: it’s a theatrical experience incorporating card tricks, music boxes and storytelling.
Sinatra: Final Curtain
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 8th Aug, 2014
This original musical by Kingdom Theatre is a tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra.
Imaginary Girlfriend
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 16th Aug, 2014
In the back room of the White Horse pub, Danny Mullins is taking us through what his promo material describes as interactive music magic.
Darkle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 17th Aug, 2014
First produced in 1989, Bill Gallagher’s script, which won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, still feels relevant to the issues in contemporary culture.
Gambit Theatre Presents: Contrast
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 5th Aug, 2014
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
English Cabaret Hour
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 16th Aug, 2014
Set at the fictional Celebrity Café, this cabaret features sketches, song, and the baking of mini-cupcakes.
The Baron Conspiracy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2014
‘I’d like to take the opportunity to ask every one of you to listening in, whoever and wherever you may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours…
Scandimania: Gods of Ice and Fire
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 1st Aug, 2014
In Scandimania: Gods of Ice and Fire, the stage is crammed with seven young actors, all dressed in white, who leap into action and unfold a fast-paced enactment of Norse mythology.
Shakespeare in the Garden: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Review
- ★★★
- Kayleigh Blair
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 5th Aug, 2014
This production of Shakespeare’s classic and well loved comedy is set in the pretty garden of a church.
Movin' Melvin Brown: The Tap-Dancing Preacher
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 7th Aug, 2014
Melvin Brown has got the moves, and this suave dude who appears in a suit and gold satin shirt also has a killer voice.
Sweep Up the Stars
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th Aug, 2014
Sweep Up The Stars charts the bittersweet journey of Bill/William, who is determined to become a writer when, at the age of eight, his older self appears to him through the power…
Loose Soul
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 4th Aug, 2014
“We live in a time of magic.
Reduced Shakespeare Company in The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)
- Review
- ★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 19th Aug, 2014
The title of Reduced Shakespeare’s show is accurate to the point of pedantry.
Tick Tock
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 1st Aug, 2014
Mhari and Thomas can’t conceive.
No Belles
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 5th Aug, 2014
Of 566 scientists to win the Nobel Prize, only 15 have been women.
The Amazing Bubble Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 16th Aug, 2014
Children will love this fun spectacle of bubble-blowing and even grown-ups will be impressed by the Amazing Bubble Man’s feats; not ten minutes into the show, I heard a Dad in fr…
Love. Guts. High School.
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 4th Aug, 2014
We can all remember the name of our first crush, can’t we? That’s the question Love.
Fleeting Clouds, the Splendid Library
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 4th Aug, 2014
Fleeting Clouds, the Splendid Library is an original Chinese opera inspired by the Guoyunlou books, an encyclopaedic set covering 1000 years of knowledge.
The Greenville Ghost
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 12th Aug, 2014
The Greenville Ghost, a new script by Tom Bonnington, is a laugh-a-minute farce about two struggling hoteliers who decide to invent a fictional ghost to draw in clientele.
Dave Callan: A Little Less Conversation
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 9th Aug, 2014
If you fit into the overlappy bit of a Venn diagram of people who like dance, people who like comedy and people who like men who look a bit like Vikings, this show is for you.
Cal Wilson: It Could Have Been Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 16th Aug, 2014
Kiwi comedian Cal Wilson invites us to imagine what her life would have been like if she’d made different choices (or if she’d been born a man).
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 1st Aug, 2014
With a free croissant and tea in hand, Shakespeare for Breakfast almost had me sold before kick-off.
The Player's Advice to Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Brian K.
The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 1st Aug, 2014
Produced by C theatre, The Snow Queen is a charming adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale by Karina Wilson.
The Jungle Referendum
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 7th Aug, 2014
The Jungle Referendum, by Three Mugs of Tea Theatre, invokes the classic tale of the Jungle Book to explain what’s going on with the Scottish referendum.
Sushi Tap Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 14th Aug, 2014
This exuberant, toe-tapping spectacular is a sure-fire crowd pleaser.
Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 11th Aug, 2014
Sh*t faced Shakespeare is a show that revolves entirely around its own unique concept - get a cast of classically trained actors, get one of them drunk, and let hilarity ensue.
The Potter Trail
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meeting Point at Greyfriars Bobby Statue
- 8th Aug, 2014
It’s fair to say I’m acquainted with the Harry Potter series.
Vaults and Wynds Tour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards
- 24th Aug, 2014
I’ve heard horror stories of people who went on ghostly tours in Edinburgh and were scared by actors hiding in dark places, or who felt nauseous or panicky in the fetid air, so i…
Children's Shows and Workshops
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Academy of Creative Training / The Old Market
- 31st May - 1st Jun 2014
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Shit-Faced Shakespeare
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 23rd - 30th May 2014
An entirely serious Shakespeare play .
The Greatest Shows on Earth
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 17th May 2014
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
The Shakespeare Heptet Fringe Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Felicity Harris
- Brighton Fringe
- The Blue Man
- 4th Jun, 2014
As a Bard-olator, I was keen to see this show.
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Burrow at The Warren
- 5th - 25th May 2014
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
A Taste of Honey
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- London Fringe
- National Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2014
It was 1958 that saw Sharagh Delaney’s first play hit the stage, and it isn’t hard to imagine how totally stupefied the contemporary audience must have been.
What I Heard About the World
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
This Third Angel and mala voadora production at the Northern Stage at St.
Penelope
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
Penelope is the conclusive episode of Ulysses and the first time Joyce explores the inner workings of Molly Bloom’s consciousness.
Faustus and the Snakes
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
This revision of Marlowe’s classic Doctor Faustus draws on the timeless story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
A Midwife Crisis
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
The NHS: you just don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Abridged
- Review
- ★★
- Madeleine Ash
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Thirty-seven Shakespeare plays, three actors, less than two hours.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th - 20th Aug 2013
An hysterically funny, fast paced, witty, tongue-in-cheek romp through the nooks and crannies of Shakespeare’s 37 comedies and tragedies, performed through the hearts and funny b…
Seussical
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
Get ready to dream in bright colours and go to strange places like Solla Sollew! Propelled into the bizarre world of Dr.
Cariad & Paul: A Two-Player Adventure
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
‘Wow’ doesn’t even begin to describe the talents of these two comedians.
Booking Dance Festival Showcase
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Booking Dance Festival’s annual Fringe show always promises a high-octane hybrid of dance styles, with seven companies participating in one enticing show.
The School of Night's Spontaneous Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★
- Joseph Cunningham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
Cards on the table: this is an incredibly impressive show.
The Emma Packer Show - What's the Point in Living If You Can't Cha-Cha-Cha?
- Review
- ★
- James Fennemore
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
The Ryukyu - Contemporary
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
A small village on the Ryukyu Islands of Japan fights to recover after a disastrous typhoon hits, destroying everything in its path.
Doctor Brown: Bexperiments
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
The critically acclaimed Doctor Brown took to the stage to perform eight back-to-back shows with each performance building upon the highlights of the previous, with the final show …
As You Like It
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
As one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, As You Like It is a typical example of a pastoral story, concerning three parties of exile who individually flee to the sanctuary o…
Power Games
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
Power Games pays homage to the classic notion of the Fatal Flaw in its depiction of a banker’s fall from grace.
Les Misérables Schools Edition
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
One of Broadway and the West End’s longest running shows, Les Miserables has been hard to avoid, with productions performed in over 40 countries worldwide.
Pole Factor
- Review
- ★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
This play attempts to shed light on topics the company, Angry Bairds Productions, believe ‘no one wants to talk about’: Religious extremism; Islamophobia, drug addiction, suici…
Emma's Imagination
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 19th Aug 2013
With two top 10 singles and a top 15 album under her belt after winning Sky TV’s Must Be The Music, Emma is now back with a new set of songs to be released on her own label.
Story Shakespeare: Pericles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Year Out Drama Company, in association with Stratford-upon-Avon College, present one of Shakespeare’s rarely performed plays.
Repertory Theatre
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th - 24th Aug 2013
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Rent
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking reworking of Puccini’s opera La Boheme, Rent portrays a group of impoverished artists and addicts precariouslymaintain their existence in Lower…
Paul Merton's Impro Chums
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Paul Merton and his impro chums return to Edinburgh for their tenth festival run, delivering many more hours of top quality improv.
Baby Wants Candy Workshops
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
This morning I woke up feeling slightly queasy and it wasn’t because of the daily fringe festival hangover.
Invisible People Journeys
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
3rdThought, the renowned over-65’s theatre company, have bestowed upon the public an utterly charming new idea that revolves around personalised one-to-one performances.
Danceforms' 63rd International Choreographers' Showcase
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Despite promising an hour’s worth of entertainment, displaying different styles of dance, and highlighting work from various international choreographers, this showcase lacked va…
BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th - 24th Aug 2013
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Theo Gibson
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
What happened to rock n’ roll? What happened to ruddy passion? Theo Gibson is a perfect example of a new age of Sheeran-sheeps who sing – and rap, we can’t miss that out – …
A Little Bit of Dickens
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
This a fantastic and innovative way to introduce children into the exciting world of Charles Dickens and Victorian England.
David Copperfield
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Undertaking the staging of David Copperfield is a tricky, if not impossible, task for any theatre company.
Kabul
- Review
- ★★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
An uncompromising voice reads out the Taliban’s manifesto and we are reminded that, from 1996-2001, women in Kabul were not allowed to seek any form of medical support when sick;…
Lifting the Mask
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
The collision of unrelated, unconnected happenings frequently occurs in everyday life, for no other reason than chance.
Bobby Gould in Hell
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
What would you do to avoid eternity in hell? David Mamet’s wonderful one-act comedy explores one man’s struggle to do just that.
The Twits by Roald Dahl
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
With very naughty characters and even more mischievous plotlines, there is a reason Roald Dahl is one of the best-loved children’s writers.
Fourplay
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Delving into the fractures of modern day life, Jane Bodie deliberately imbues her work with a banal plotline enlivened by a quick, satirical wit.
Tap Into Health - Movin' With Melvin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Worried you’ve over indulged a little during the Edinburgh Fringe? Or simply want to learn a new skill? Then this is the show for you.
Paul F Taylor Presents The Greatest Show In The World Ever
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him.
Am I
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Geared towards raising awareness of human rights violations, Am I is most effective in its ability to turn its question back on the audience: who are we, and what part do we have t…
Dan & Dan Live: The First Sign of Madness
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Comedy duo Dan & Dan, famous such YouTube hits as Requiem for a Wardrobe and the brilliant Daily Mail Song, have graduated to the real world of live comedy.
Austen's Women
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Jane Austen’s stories speak to every generation, everyone can identify with at least one of her enthralling characters.
The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Sandi Toksvig My Valentine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
As Toksvig scurries excitedly on stage, she triumphantly proclaims that she is returning to Edinburgh after over thirty years since her first Fringe Festival.
Radio Forth on the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
Radio Forth on the Fringe opened its sixth annual showcase with a bang last night at Edinburgh’s Playhouse.
Honest Iago and Three Other Choice Villains from Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★
- Melissa Lawford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Natalie Burgess and Richard Smithies work through the principal monologues of four of Shakespeare’s major tragedies: Othello, Hamlet, Richard III and King Lear.
The Showstoppers' Family Hour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Showstoppers’ spontaneous musical sensation has been a fringe success for many years and the family hour show is no different.
West End at the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
With a cast featuring London-based professionals, this show-stopping production is brilliant for lovers of classic and contemporary musicals.
Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
This refreshing re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s Othello sees the handkerchief drama played out from a female perspective, a comedic take on the tragedy that we’re used to.
4.48 Psychosis
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Unsettling, rich with seamless physicality and melancholic tableaux, the pupils from The City of London Academy certainly capture the poignancy of Sarah Kane’s final play.
Death by Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★
- Joseph Cunningham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
I found Hurly Burly’s ‘best of Shakespeare deaths’ a thoroughly educational experience: I learnt that Shakespearean ‘best of’ simply does not work.
How to be a Modern Marvel®
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Tupperware: it’s robust, it’s light, it seals, it’s stylish and it’s modern.
Verb Garden: The Decent Chat Show
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
The premise behind the Decent Chat Show is a good one, but unfortunately what I experienced didn’t even come close.
American Gun Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Chris Harcum is loud, brash, theatrical and oh so American.
Baby Loves Disco
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Held in one of Edinburgh’s most vibrant and dynamic nightclubs, Electric Circus, Baby Loves Disco is no ordinary disco and describing it as such would be a huge disservice.
Here She Be
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Here she be: Nat Luurtsema, one third of the critically acclaimed sketch trio ‘Jigsaw’, back in Edinburgh with her first solo stand-up show in three years.
New (Dis)Order
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Held at Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, Dance Base, I was expecting a thoroughly engaging performance that would push the boundaries of conventional dance styles.
And They Played Shang-a-Lang
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
If you’re looking to travel back through the years and witness witty portrayals of your schooldays, then this show will transport you.
Les Misérables (School Edition)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, Les Miserables transports the audience to the bloody French revolution between rebellious Parisian students and the state.
The Dumb Waiter
- Review
- ★★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
A disused kitchen basement is the setting for a revival of Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, this environment instantly creating a close proximity between actor and spectator.
Stupid Hair and Skinny Jeans - Ryan McDonnell
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Ryan McDonnell has never quite fitted in.
Impromptu Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andrea Valentino
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Having been a stalwart of English-language culture for over four centuries, William Shakespeare’s favourite dramatic motifs are surely common knowledge to at least most of the coun…
Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Once a week during the Fringe, Blackwell’s is hosting evenings dedicated to celebrating Scotland’s rich literary scene.
London Road, Sea Point
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
‘Why is it easier to speak to a stranger than it is to my own daughter?’ Rosa, an elderly woman approaching the end of her life, asks Stella, a Nigerian immigrant reluctantly i…
Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 23rd Aug 2013
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
Laughter On the Outskirts - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Every twenty years or so, comedy re-vamps itself.
Hope Light and Nowhere
- Review
- ★★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
A blue football rests in the middle of a chalk circle; traumatised Edward, played by Alex Austin, moves nervously around the edges of the stage; a television set flicks on and off…
Stella Graham - A Pint of Stella
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Well-travelled tomboy Stella Graham returns to the free fringe with an hours worth of stand-up about her fear mongering mother and jet setter lifestyle.
Alfie Brown: The Revolting Youth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Alfie Brown is one of the most thought provoking and captivating stand-up comedians of our generation.
The Three Little Pigs
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
We learn from the outset of the play that two of the three pigs are dead.
An Actor's Lament
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Steven Berkoff and Jay Benedict flamboyantly meander across the minimalist stage and poetically begin to explore the theatrical world.
Shakespeare's Cymbeline
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Cymbeline is not one of Shakespeare’s most eminent plays and is seldom performed.
Marcus Brigstocke: 'Je m'accuse - I am Marcus'
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
If you want to know how it came to be that Marcus Brigstocke became a part-time podium dancer while also working on an oil rig in Scotland, this show is definitely for you.
Mixed Doubles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Facebook culture is without a doubt the comedic subject du jour and, admittedly, I have begun to grow tired of seeing mimes of the ‘like’ function three times a day during this…
Upstairs Downton
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
When people say that period dramas aren’t their thing, I just don’t believe them.
The Extremists
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
Norman Kreeger, played by David Calvitto, has recently published a book on 21st century extremism and appears as a guest on Issues in Focus, a late night political talk show to sha…
Keith Farnan: Fear Itself
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
Keith Farnan’s appeal is that he is both a loveable Irish rogue and an acerbic politico.
Tom Rosenthal -?????????
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Tom Rosenthal’s talent as a stand-up comedian is undeniable.
Kai Humphries - Shameless
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Debatably ginger Geordie comedian Kai Humphries is shameless.
This Is Soap: The Improvised Soap Opera
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Year after year, a plethora of improv acts arrive in Edinburgh for the fringe.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Messing with Shakespeare is par for the course at the Fringe.
Joe Lycett - If Joe Lycett Then You Should've Put a Ring On It
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
The Oxford Imps
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
With quite a weighty reputation you would expect great things from the Oxford Imps, so naturally I was excited as they leaped on stage to deliver a decent and energetic introductio…
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.
Birthday Girls: 2053
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Meet the birthday girls Rose Johnson, Camille Ucan and Beattie Edmondson.
It's Me Dayne
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
It’s Me Dayne is thoroughly awkward, cringe-worthy and even gob-smacking, but boy, is it funny.
Stephen Carlin: Gambling Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
In his new Fringe show, Stephen Carlin sheds light on a unique problem that comes out of gambling addiction; while most addicts can feasibly avoid their choice drug for evermore, g…
Each of Us
- Review
- ★★★
- Douglas Thomas Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
For the first few minutes of the play, written by and starring Ben Moor, it seems as if we are about to witness a melancholic reflection on a lost marriage and the quiet despair on…
The Tim Vine Chat Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Tim Vine returns to the Fringe this year with an hour’s worth of puns, silly songs and audience participation.
Romesh Ranganathan - Rom Com
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
It was surprising to see that Romesh Ranganathan’s debut fringe show, Rom Com, was not listed as one of Time Out’s top ten newcomers.
Aisling Bea: C'est La Bea
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
There is a buzz amongst comedy lovers at the Fringe this year and it is all because of newcomer Aisling Bea.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Melissa Lawford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
C Theatre Company gives George Alexander Louis’ recent entry into the world a brilliant twist.
Dressing Down
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
If you ever forget why it is that everyone has heard of the Cambridge Footlights, Dressing Down will remind you.
The Events
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Steedman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Can the rational mind comprehend the motive behind a mass shooting? What if there is no adequate explanation for such an atrocity? David Greig asks these questions in his play The …
The Play That Goes Wrong
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
The Play That Goes Wrong is an impeccably glorious spoof of such amateur disasters, that centres upon Cornley Polytechnic’s production of ‘Murder at Haversham Manor’ as it de…
Shit-faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maeve Scullion
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 3rd Aug, 2013
A year from their 2012 debut, the hype surrounding Shit-faced Shakespeare continues to saturate the Fringe.
Medicine Show
- Review
- ★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
When you’re promised with a show that “aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world”, it’s easy to be optimistic.
James and the Giant Peach
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s tale about a boy finding friendship and adventure with a bunch of idiosyncratic insects astride a giant peach is translated faithfully to the stage …
Boys' Life
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 4th Jun, 2013
Three hapless 20 something men hang out in a bedroom, no longer at college but not yet ready for the world of grown-up relationships in ‘Boys’ Life’, Howard Korder’s Pulitz…
Piatto Finale
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Superbolt’s marvelous little offering, despite being loosely plotted and having a somewhat frivolous narrative, makes up for its faults with buckets of heart.
Shakespeare For Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Natasha Long
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2008
For the seventeenth year, C theatre gives festival-goers the chance to start the day with a croissant, coffee and a boisterous but brilliant slice of the Bard.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Brighton Fringe
- 3rd May, 2009
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Hairy Maclary and Friends
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
Lynley Dodd’s tales of Hairy Maclary, the scampish terrier who gets up to all manner of mischief with his animal pals, never really did much for me as a little’un.
Vitamin
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
It’s pretty hard to describe this one-man show without either sounding obtuse, ignorant or both.
What the Heart Remembers: The Women and Children of Darfur
- Review
- ★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
This theatre/dance offering from the University of South Florida lacks subtlety and feels overly affronting in its clumsy and somewhat confused form.
Coalition
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 25th Feb, 2013
A political satire on the Clegg-Cameron pact, this well-performed and entertaining play follows the power struggles of fictional Lib-Dem leader Matt Cooper (Thom Tuck), whose party…
Peter Panic
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
James Balwin’s “Peter Panic” is billed as a response piece to last year’s London riots, placing the known and loved Peter and Wendy of JM Barrie’s “Peter Pan” into a …
Roma
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Anthony Lo-Guidice’s semi-autobiographical “Roma” maps the making of an individual through experience and revelation, stylishly leaping through the hoops of birth, adolescent…
Dave Gibson and Charlie Talbot - Battle of Britain: North vs South
- Review
- ★★
- Stephanie Bartlett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
The premise of Battle of Britain is very simple and one that has been done to death: which is the better half of Britain, the North or the South? For the purpose of this exercise w…
Silent Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Greg Smith
- Henley Fringe
- 22nd Jul, 2012
Silent Shakespeare attempts to give meaning to some of his most famous characters, but without words.
Fool's Gold
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2011
Fool’s Gold is a production that smacks heavily of the dreaded GCSE devised drama piece.
Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
The Bardic Breakfasters are back! C’s Shakespearean sensation returns for its twentieth sellout edition.
Who Is Moloch?
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 5th Feb, 2013
It is never a good sign when, after two readings of the plot summary, I’m still not sure what the whole thing is about.
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 21st Nov, 2012
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
Mephisto Waltz
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Derevo, multi-award winning company from St.
Request Programme
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Cecilia Nilsson (‘Wallander’) stars in this phenomenal insight into the simplicity and painstaking cleanliness of solitary life, leading us gently through what should be an ord…
Shakespeare Shorts or What's in a Name?
- Review
- ★★★
- Alex Forsyth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2008
This years fringe is host to a few shows that brand themselves as Shakespeare for the ‘iPod Generation.
The Macbeth Conspiracy
- Review
- ★
- Robin T. Barton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2006
You know youre not in for a conventional approach to the Scottish Tragedy when the Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow speech opens proceedings.
Emma Thompson presents: Fair Trade
- Review
- ★★★★
- Matt Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2010
To have a tagline from Emma Thompson, undoubtedly a belle of British cinema, is to wield a hefty endorsement.
Shakespeares R and J
- Review
- ★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2008
The play opens with four American boarding school boys preparing for the start of their day and we are then taken briefly through it, from church through their daily classes.
Death Boogie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
DDMcG Productions have hit on a winner with this piece: a combination of performance poetry, live-looping and music from two very talented strings players.
Swamp Juice
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The award-winning Swamp Juice - from Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre - dazzles and entertains audiences of all ages.
Alun Cochrane: Moments of Alun
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
Alun Cochrane is about halfway through his set when he spots my notepad poking out from under the pedestal table in front of me.
Croft and Pearce - Funnier Than It Sounds
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Croft and Pearce exhibit matching outfits, and to a degree, matching faces, accents and physicality.
Author
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louisa-Claire Dunnigan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2010
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…
Dream Plays (Scenes From a Play I'll Never Write)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
Shakespeare Bingo: Titus!
- Review
- ★★
- Laurie Coldwell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
Shakespeare, you say? With bingo? Such subversion excites me.
Thread
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
Three actors take to the unconventional stage space at the Assembly St.
How a Man Crumbled
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Clout Theatre have hit on something good with this dusty, grotesque and wonderfully pointless piece of physical theatre.
The Most Dangerous Toy
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Now, my knowledge of philosophy is not great.
Story Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kieran Corcoran
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
Anybody who thinks that you can perform Love’s Labour’s Lost without doing something serious to the script probably hasn’t read the play.
Shakespeare Shattered
- Review
- ★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2009
Shakespeare Shattered is performed by the Mainstage Theatre, Washington, as part of the American Highschool Theatre Festival.
Shakespeare For Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- John C Kennedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2009
With the curtain going up at 10am, Shakespeare for Breakfast is certainly one for the early birds, but is full of all the right ingredients to wake you up, cure a bad hangover and …
Shakespeare's Queens: She-Wolves and Serpents
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jon Stapley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The prospect of Shakespeare at the Fringe is often met with a due sense of trepidation.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2007
If ever there was a perfectly matched pair, like a pie and a pint, a horse and cart or Edinburgh and rent-scalping, then surely Shakespeare is now inexorably linked with Breakfast.
Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2009
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Everything Else Happened
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
This adaptation of the short stories of Jonathan Safran Foer, whilst having moments of brilliance, ultimately comes short.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Theo Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2010
Shakespeare for Breakfast now has something of an unassailable reputation at the Fringe.
The Blind
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
Inspired by the novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago, “The Blind” is a story in pictures, exploring both what it is to be blinded but also diving into the darke…
Laugh or the Polar Bear Gets It
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 28th Nov, 2012
A comedy night in aid of Friends of the Earth, this fast-moving show was jam-packed with talent.
The Revenger's Tragedy
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 15th Oct, 2012
If you’re scared of clowns look away now.
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
- Review
- ★★★
- Rob Marks
- London Fringe
- 9th Jun, 2011
When Martin’s best friend is murdered by a shadowy assassin, he discovers he’s at the heart of a 400-year-old conspiracy involving the RSC, Shakespeare’s most nefarious villain and…
Victor / Victoria
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 2nd Nov, 2012
In this musical about a female impersonator (based on the Julie Andrews film), it’s one small step for a woman to dress up in drag, and one slightly bigger step for man and woman…
Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Aug, 2011
Luke Wright’s unique brand of performance poetry is like nothing I have ever seen before.
The Pride
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
A surreal hour of comic drama, The Pride is a bizarre attempt to place the more developed aspects of animalistic behaviour – guarding your territory, hospitality laws, and posses…
Mudlarks
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 24th Sep, 2012
Holed up on a muddy ‘beach’, three boys look out across the Thames, on the run from the police, a vengeful gang and each other.
The Red Bus Puppet Shows
- Review
- ★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jock Maitland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
This pretty much does what it says on the tin.
Apocalypse Later?
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
This ensemble sketch show promises in its promotional material to be as funny as the ‘first Neolithic wedgie’: a good indication of the level of comic maturity this young troupe ha…
Shit-Faced Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★
- Amy Holtz
- Brighton Fringe
- 6th May, 2013
Someone was plied with Echo Falls and Premium French Lager before curtains up - and it ain’t Puck (though I’d pay to see him have a crack at it later on in the run).
The Freak and The Showgirl
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 19th Sep, 2012
‘NOT for the Easily Offended!!’ yelled the fliers.
Duality
- Review
- ★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Pair Dance’s piece aims to combine movement with other technology, and to create a work that embodies “multimedia” by showing that dance and projection (specifically in 3D) c…
Tumble Circus: This Is What We Do For a Living
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 12th Jun, 2012
It could have been me, but in a hot Spiegeltent on the Southbank with chairs rammed closely together with a mixture of expectant adults and children, I wasn’t feeling it as the l…
Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
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…
The Light Princess
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Banks
- London Fringe
- 11th Feb, 2014
Is that a bird? A plane? No, it’s Rosalie Craig, and what a soaring, magical flight hers is.
Story Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well
- Review
- ★★
- Helene Cloete
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
The story of Helena and her faithless husband, Bertram, has puzzled theatregoers for centuries.
Cantina
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 4th Jun, 2012
An impossibly beautiful young man balances on a tightrope, his feet perfect, his arms waving madly as if trying to keep his balance.
The Dick and the Rose
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
I had an inkling that The Dick and The Rose was going to be something special when I was handed a silver poker chip in lieu of a ticket at the box office.
Blurred Lines
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Banks
- London Fringe
- 20th Jan, 2014
Blurred Lines is a cutting reference to Robin Thicke’s chart-topping hit that had us all grimly singing along to ‘you know you want it’.
Heaven Bound - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
Mike ‘Dr Blue’ McKeon is a real Blues caricature.
Rambling in an Empty Room
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma-Jane Denly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
This dance project from Taiwan is entirely improvised by its two performers in a style similar to Western contemporary dance.
Troilus and Cressida
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 3rd Sep, 2012
It’s not just the Trojans and Greeks who go head to head in this high concept Shakespeare production.
The Static
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 22nd Oct, 2012
This imaginative play opens on quirky teen, Sparky (Brian Vernel).
Mack And Mabel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Lindley
- London Fringe
- 13th Jul, 2012
This dark and daring musical comes bursting out of a tunnel at Southwark Playhouse auditioning for its West-End transfer.
Shakespeares Passions
- Review
- ★★
- Terry Gilliland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2006
Shakespeare’s Passions is a one-man play devised by David Owen-Bell and performed by Bruce Morrison.
Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2006
C Theatre presents their latest Shakespearean adaptation, Taming of the Shrew, breakfast included, of course.
Emma Hack - New Works
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
EMMA HACK is an Australian artist working in the unique medium of body paint installation and photography.
Emma Pask
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
Award winning vocalist Emma Pask has firmly established herself as one of Australia’s favourite voices in jazz.
Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2023
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Emma Taylor: Making a Revue from the News
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its 43rd year, about its background and success
Anu Vaidyanathan: Butter Chicken Is A Conspiracy
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Jul, 2023
Anu Vaidyanathan talks about her show, Blimp, at the Edinburgh Fringe and the many influences on her life and achievements.
4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 16th Feb, 2019
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 11th Dec, 2018
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October
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- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 17th Oct, 2018
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
Black Friday Deals on West End Shows
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 23rd Nov, 2017
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre
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- Levi Bailey
- Brighton Fringe
- 27th Apr, 2017
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out
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- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 11th Apr, 2017
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Romola Garai And Emma Cunniffe To Star In The West End Transfer Of Queen Anne
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- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 2nd Feb, 2017
Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Queen Anne.
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...
Shakespeare Syndrome's Catriona Scott on Macbeth's Rorschach Test
- Feature
- Alexander Gillespie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2016
How do you tell a story using Shakespeare’s characters and make it original? How do you tell a story about Shakespeare himself for that matter? For Catriona Scott, playwright of ...
The Carer's Tom Kinninmont on Brian Cox, Shakespeare, and script executives
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- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Jun, 2016
Screenwriter, producer and director Tom Kinninmont’s latest feature film, The Carer, starring Brian Cox, made its European premiere at 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Interview: Transgendered Shakespeare
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- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 7th May, 2016
On his 400th anniversary, can Shakespeare help a father and child explore each other’s worlds? We talked to Rory and Simon Waterfield discussing how the bard inspired their ...
Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 7th Mar, 2016
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- London Fringe
- 20th Dec, 2015
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
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