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Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
A variety show isn’t just a very pleasant smattering of tasters, but a study in miniature of what comedians are finding funny these days.
Zombie Prom
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Given the title, you could be forgiven for assuming this was a show that relied on wackiness for its own sake, à la Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
AAA Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Perhaps a case of mis-selling the show at Pleasance Courtyard, the audience for AAA Stand Up was of a distinctly middle age and much of the material used by three comedians in the …
The Shaman's Dream
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
In the gardens of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Two (formerly known as the Dean Gallery), a combined cast of Scottish performers and the Norwegian company Stella Polaris put o…
Dante
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Adapting Dante’s Inferno for the stage would be a tall order at the best of times, but the Louisiana State University Theatre company set themselves an exceedingly difficult task…
Superbard Starts to Save the World
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
George Lewkowicz’s Superbard Starts to Save the World never quite finds its feet despite game attempts by the show’s creator to inject life into its rather confused narrative.
Splitting the Bill – Michael Workman & Tommy Little
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
In the Gilded Balloon’s Dining Room the twinned stand up sets of Australian comics Michael Workman and Tommy Little provided some wonderfully imaginative laughs, a pleasing contr…
Shane Koyczan - Talk Rocker
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
Canadian spoken word artist Shane Koyczan is an intense young man whose poems explore some thoroughly emotional ground regarding his childhood, his grandparents, his early relation…
Patterson and Ranganathan
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
In a really charming and comfortable little room at the back of the White Horse on Canongate, Jason Patterson and Romesh Ranganathan put on an hour of pretty charming stand up.
Paul Kelly
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly played to a packed Queen’s Hall with his own brand of low-key folk-rock, featuring only him and his nephew Dan Kelly, who played guitar an…
Stick Stock Stone Dead
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Stick Stock Stone Dead is a piece written and performed entirely by the under 18-year-olds of the CrazySchemeTheatre company, and while the show is a decent first attempt at physic…
Dream or Not?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
This is easily the most unusual thing I have ever seen at the Fringe.
Seann Walsh: Seann to be Wild
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Seann Walsh appeared in front of a sold-out, 336-strong crowd at Pleasance Courtyard’s Beyond, and despite a lot of energy and bravado in his performance, this is a case of a sho…
Clooney, Cowell, Pitt and Me: Amusing Encounters with the A-List
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
Sandro Monetti’s show Clooney, Cowell, Pitt and Me: Amusing Encounters With the A-List does more or less what it says on its somewhat over-titled tin.
Springboard
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
The Performing Arts Studio Scotland hosts Springboard, a triple-bill of original dance pieces that gives young and emerging dancers, students and graduates the chance to perform.
Sean Hughes - Life Becomes Noises
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Fringe mainstay Sean Hughes is performing two shows at this year’s festival and has perhaps bravely decided to make his earlier show, Life Becomes Noises, an extended discourse o…
Protest Moans and Megaphones
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
Henry Raby’s fifty minutes in Bashee Labyrinth is expressly presented as a place to try new material and get a breather from his regular show, Letter to the Man (from the Boy), i…
The Gambler
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Theatre Re’s production, The Gambler, is a remarkable piece of theatre: slick, imaginative, engaging and flawlessly executed.
Best in the World
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
The Northern Stage at St Stephen’s is a rather wonderful room, and the Unfolding Theatre Company’s Best in the World – directed by Annie Rigby, written by Carina Rodney and p…
Sex Money Death
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
The tiny room in the Shack Comedy Club on Rose Street was a fitting venue for an intimate, surprisingly generous and occasionally bleak comedy set from Stuart Black, which often fe…
Carnival of Crows
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
By the end of her one woman gothic horror show, Molly Beth White has gathered all of her spooky accoutrements and the previous 50 minutes’ themes into one rather triumphant macab…
Iszi Lawrence's Wotnot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Iszi Lawrence’s stand-up show Wotnot, a word that also doubles as her go-to euphemism for her vagina, is delightfully tricky to describe with concision.
McNeil and Pamphilon
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Three-time Fringe veterans Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon treat the Pleasance Baby Grand with an energetic and slightly delirious hour of comedy that manages to acknowledge its deb…
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