Articles by Ashleigh Wheeler

Frimston and Rowett

Review
★★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

When a sketch duo hand out penguin chocolate bars at the end of their show, you can infer one of two things.

A Sentimental Journey - The Story of Doris Day

Review
★★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2011

It’s sentimental, it’s a journey, it’s the story of Doris Day’s life.

Hamlet House of Horror

Forget reimaginings and modernisations - Hamlet House of Horror takes the bad Quarto in a vicelike grip and shakes it until there’s nothing left but life, noise, and fun.

Blood and Roses

Review
★★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

Part audio-play, part wander around the West end of the city, this is an excellent musing on love and family that would benefit from keeping it simple in the site-specific departme…

Julius Caesar - Free

Review
★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2011

Shakespeare can be hard to do at the Fringe, and even harder to do in an hour.

A Man's a Man

Review
★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
2nd Sep, 2011

What a bizarre hour of my life was spent watching this musical - bizarre, but not wholly unpleasant.

Elegy

A man lies alone on a bed of discarded clothes.

Wives of War

Review
★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
25th Aug, 2011

This musing war-wifedom suffers from a patchy script and a patched-together structure.

(g)Host City

Review
★★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2011

A downloadable, eclectic mix of audio plays, guides to Edinburgh and soundscapes, (g)Host City is a little bit of the festival you can take home with you, or rediscover in the stre…

From the Fire

Just when I was beginning to lose faith in this Fringe’s musicals, along come this truly professional affair that brims over with talent and feeling.

The Dog-Eared Collective: You’re Better Than This

The costumes may be naff, the props may break, but the belly laughs come thick and fast in this fun-filled hour of winningly surreal sketch comedy.

Dr Apple's Last Lecture

Can watching someone else’s psychedelic trip be interesting? This show proves that with the right cast, it can certainly have dazzling moments of fun.

Hammerpuzzle's Measure for Measure

Review
★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2011

The programme for this modern-verse retelling of one of Shakespeare’s problem plays tells us that the aim of the company is to smash a text apart (hence the hammer), find its ess…

Broadway Swings

It’s hard to go wrong with a big band and the Broadway songs everyone knows.

Seminar

Review
★★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2011

Need to smash stress? To find inner bliss? While this interactive mock-seminar may not offer solutions to these pressing problems of modern life, it does serve up an entertaining, …

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Review
★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

Any piece of theatre that deals with the subject of war gives itself a tough challenge to steer clear of oversimplification, cliché and sentimentality.

Now is the Winter

Review
★★
Ashleigh Wheeler
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2011

A new piece written by Kate Saffin, this show sees Helen McGregor play Bess, the cook of soon-to-be King Richard III, as she narrates, describes, witnesses, and gives opinion on th…

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