This was not the sort of evening one normally spends at the Fringe.
Depression and other mental illnesses are often unfairly ignored in our society.
Children of Twelchford is a rough and ready fifty minutes of free comedy from youthful quartet Ship of Fools, who claim to hail from the eponymous, unappealing and entirely imagina…
It’s a commonality between all civilisations, and tightly bound into our history, but something we rarely think about is where music has actually come from.
There is no such thing as a show that is too silly.
“D’you hear about Todd?” An innocuous question shouted over a bar inspires the better part of an hour’s worth of reflection on death in the modern age in this curious and c…
With the aggressive promotion that is all too common at the Fringe sometimes the creative people involved lack the time to sit back a little and simply talk about the work they’r…
Tucked away above Valvona & Crolla, The Magicians of Edinburgh may be well outside the normal radius of Fringe activity, but this charming slice of homegrown music and poetry demon…
Squeg is comedy show played out in daylight, set to the wafting of freely distributed paper plate fans and taking place in front of a tatty black curtain.
Socks playing guitar.
The Yurt Locker is naturally intriguing as a venue and thus when the three performers of Cracking Yolks took to the stage they were playing to an almost full house of casual punter…
An honest, telling, but ultimately flawed piece of one-man theatre, Walk Like a Black Man is an autobiographical work by writer and performer Rafiq Richard, exploring the challenge…
Like a lot of comedians these days, Rob Beckett is quick to self-deprecate.
Even in comedy, the graveyard shift ain’t an easy one.
Sexytime opens on a bit of a bum note: a prolonged, wordless re-enactment of one of the oldest stories of lust and temptation that goes on that little bit too long and makes the au…
The prospect of Shakespeare at the Fringe is often met with a due sense of trepidation.
Two shows played simultaneously in two adjacent venues, with video screens in each theatre displaying the goings-on in the other.
Some stories are better told without words.
Sketch comedy duo Chris O’Niell and Paul Valenti started last night with a bit of a mountain to climb.
Would you pour out your innermost secrets to three strange comedians? This is the premise of Jim Smallman’s afternoon show Group Therapy, which promises to solve all its audience…
Incompetent mountaineers sit alongside amateur online daters and the song and dance of building societies in Mischief, the sketch show by talented comic troupe the Boom Jennies, wh…
For one night only, a group of singers and musicians gathered in Queen’s Hall to honour the fallen of the First World War.
Since the Free Fringe is so often dominated by comedy, a little free theatre can come as a pleasant surprise, especially when it’s good.
Josephine is putting on a play and it’s really, really good.