Articles by Lauren Moreau

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...

Near Gone

This award-winning devised piece from Two Destination Language clearly deserves its second festival run.

An Invitation...

Bodies are awkward, difficult things.

The Richard Alger and Tina Kronis Extended Interview

Feature
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2014

Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...

She Loves Me

“Good morning, good day!” So begins the best classic musical you’ve never heard of.

Dazzle Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition and Paul Furneaux Japanese Woodcut Prints

The centrally-located art gallery, Dovecot Studios, has provided a lovely break from the madness of fringe with its current offering of exhibitions.

Champagne Tutored Tasting

If the idea of tasting various French champagnes at an extremely shiny table in a marble Georgian library sounds appealing, well, here you go.

Extremely Bad Dancing to Extremely French Music

This is not for everyone.

Eggs Collective Get A Round

Like many Free Fringe shows, this one is hard to categorize.

Anything Goes

KD Theatre’s Anything Goes is cheerfully cheesy, well-done Cole Porter in an hour and a half.

Liz Lochhead: Somethings Old, Somethings New

Liz Lochhead’s solo spoken word show at Assembly Rooms opens with songs from Joni Mitchell’s delicately moody album ‘Blue’ on the sound system; appropriate not only for her…

Rumours

Neil Simon’s comedies are wonderful, but quite a few of them have aged badly.

Chalk About

Performers Christine Devaney and Hendrik Lebon polled a group of children on what they’d like to see in a show.

The Importance of Being Earnest

This particular Earnest is a serious comedy by very young people.

Dinner is Swerved

Dinner is Swerved starts at 11:30 pm, so it isn’t really dinner — more like a midnight snack.

Oleanna

This production of David Mamet’s play Oleanna is almost unwatchable, which is to say it’s excellent.

Kava Girls

You really, really want to like this little musical.

Dim Diolch

Words of warning: this production is entirely in Welsh (the title means “No thank you”).

Siddhartha, the Musical

You’ve probably seen the posters featuring a half-naked man covered in oil- exactly what Herman Hesse had in mind when he wrote his classic philosophical novel.

The Virtuous Burglar

Farce is easy to laugh at and difficult to perform.

Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

Charles Dickens’ works adapt beautifully into one-man/-woman shows.

Marijan

There are some excellent one-woman shows out there, but this one doesn’t have much to offer.

Speech Sucks: The Future Signs

In all the noise and bustle of Edinburgh during August, this was a refreshing and quiet event.

Hamlet and Ophelia Go Swimming

This show has an attractive title and a premise brimming with potential: a series of scenes between Hamlet and Ophelia in the years prior to the events of Hamlet, combined with dia…

The Duchess of Malfi

For a minute, I thought I’d walked into a puppet theatre version of The Duchess of Malfi.

Back to the Hills!

Danny O’Brien is genial stand-up, although the standard for geniality in comedians is pretty low.

Conversations with Boring, Ugly People

A decent show is worth the price of a ticket and a bad show isn’t, but in the case of Conversations with Boring, Ugly People, I’d pay good money not to have to watch this exerc…

Sunday Morning

This new one-man show from South African theatre company Hello Elephant is by turns heartfelt, amusing, and pleasantly evocative of a morning run through Johannesburg.

The Hollywood Ten

Hats off to 8pB Theatre Company’s extremely young cast.

I'm Thinking of Leaving Facebook

It’s a rare thing when the venue is more intriguing than the performance.

The Post Show

We’ve all been there—the post-show discussion that goes on for too long or goes nowhere at all.

Beijing Cake

Review
★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

Some cakes are just disappointing and better left unmade.

The Trilogy

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

The Improsarios pride themselves on doing improv that’s not just comedic.

Next Door

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

Outstanding Danish and Finnish comedy duo Ivan Hansen and Pekka Raikkonen look like two schoolteachers.

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Review
★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

People like Star Trek.

Masters of Drip

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2013

Two good things: this show is free and the Masters of Drip, Michael Friederich and Gavin Rankin, don’t seem to have dripped anything on their immaculately clean white shirts.

Kafka’s A Report to an Academy

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2013

Warning: this show opens with a man middle-aged man clad only briefs.

Entertaining Mr Orton

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2013

Entertaining Mr.

The Story of Little Dombey

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2013

What with the recent Les Miserables fever, everyone has been fussing over Victor Hugo and ignoring that other cheerful scribe of poverty and dying children - our very own Charles J…

A Funny Valentine

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2013

American jazz with a Scottish accent? Well, why not? Go sample this strange but still palatable cultural fusion in the basement of the Valvona and Crolla café.

The Cow Play

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

The Cow Play is a trivial comedy about serious things.

Running With the Firm

Review
★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

From the title, I thought this show might be like Glengarry Glenn Ross with more jogging.

The Road to Qatar!

Review
★★★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2013

If you’re going to offend, you’d better do it using a massive chorus, a few good tap numbers and a rousing finale.

Bonk!

Review
★★
Lauren Moreau
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2013

During a sex scene in the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s character announces from beneath the sheets, ‘This is the most fun I’ve ever had without laughing.