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Beats North
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall @ Roundabout
- 31st Aug, 2014
“Being a DJ is like being a storyteller,” we are told at the opening of Beats North, a heartfelt celebration and exploration of the powers of music.
The News at Kate: Leftie Cock Womble
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Viva Mexico
- 24th Aug, 2014
Amidst the moustachioed revolutionaries that don the walls of Viva Mexico restaurant, Kate Smurthwaite takes the mic for a thought-provoking hour of comedy.
Soweto Spiritual Singers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 23rd Aug, 2014
The Soweto Spiritual Singers greet their audience with the Lord’s Prayer, sung in perfect harmony.
Give Take
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- [email protected]
- 22nd Aug, 2014
Give Take’s Musical Remedies are an exploration of the healing powers of the natural world.
Romeo and Juliet
- Review
- ★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C cubed
- 21st Aug, 2014
Take a Shakespeare play and strip it of all of the aspects that make it a timeless sensation.
Spoken Word Sundays
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Appletree Writers at The Whole Works
- 20th Aug, 2014
Just off the Royal Mile, down along the cobbles and between the narrow walls of Jackson’s Close, Appletree Writers and Friends gather every Sunday of the Fringe to celebrate spok…
Tubespotting
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Electric Circus
- 20th Aug, 2014
How long would it take to go via every single one of the 270 stations on the London Tube map? Most of us would shrug at the question, having no desire whatsoever to even consider s…
Back Out from the Outback
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey
- 19th Aug, 2014
The Edinburgh Fringe is brimming with acts from Down Under, but you probably won’t witness any more authentic than Susie and Mel in their storytelling show Back Out From The Outb…
Wuthering Heights
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug, 2014
“We are not going to tell you a story,” the cast disconcertingly warns the audience in the opening minutes of Wuthering Heights.
Tis Pity
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 19th Aug, 2014
Natalie Audley’s ‘Tis Pity is a clever retelling of John Ford’s 17th century incestuous drama ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore.
Belfast Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 19th Aug, 2014
One man is all it takes.
Noughts and Crosses
- Review
- ★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 16th Aug, 2014
Shakespeare’s School brings Malorie Blackman’s much loved novel Noughts and Crosses to the stage in a performance that falls disappointingly flat despite the potential of the w…
Forever Young
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 15th Aug, 2014
The Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre’s Forever Young is a heartfelt portrayal of the damaged, tormented and stolen youths of the First World War through drama, poetry and song.
Spring Awakening
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 15th Aug, 2014
The Italia Conti Ensemble’s rendition of Spring Awakening is a well-directed and expertly performed take on Frank Wedekind’s controversial play.
Movin' Melvin Brown: The Ray Charles Experience
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 13th Aug, 2014
Movin’ Melvin Brown: The Ray Charles Experience is an entertaining soirée of song and dance in homage to the great soul music pioneer of the 1950s.
Monkey Poet: Shit Flinging - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 13th Aug, 2014
Monkey Poet: Shit Flinging is a show much more savoury than its name suggests.
Antidepressants Are Not Overprescribed!
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 12th Aug, 2014
Come gather in the yurt at the Stand in the Square for another in the series of The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas.
Voca People
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2014
“Everything you are about to hear is pure human vocals,” a voiceover announces before the show begins.
Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2014
‘Knob jokes with depth’ are the words that fifty-six year old Frank Skinner himself uses to describe his new stand up show Man in A Suit.
The HandleBards: Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - West Gate
- 10th Aug, 2014
Fishing rods, bike bells and shuttlecocks likely did not feature on the Elizabethan prop list for Macbeth.
Afrobeat from Poción de Fe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th Aug, 2014
When afrobeat makes prime-time at the most renowned jazz club in town, you know you’re in for the good stuff.
Animal Farm
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 9th Aug, 2014
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre Company present George Orwell’s Animal Farm in a remarkable, poignant enactment of the dangerous rise of tyranny in a state where ideals of f…
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- B’est Restaurant
- 9th Aug, 2014
Come and meet the Faultys, the Fawltys’ delightful doppelgangers.
Awhile with Seamus Heaney
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 8th Aug, 2014
The world gasped in shock when renowned Irish poet Seamus Heaney passed away in August of last year.
Victorian Vices – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 8th Aug, 2014
The moment you step into this showroom, I can guarantee you’ll wish you had worn your suit or gown.
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilrig Studio
- 8th Aug, 2014
Horatio may be played by a girl in a school uniform, yet this is the only aspect of Hamlet that gives away the fact that the performers are all high school students.
Chris Turner: Pretty Fly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
Bandanas, braces and £16 patchouli hand soap are just a few of the afflictions that British comedian Chris Turner has had to suffer in life as a skinny, middle class white boy.
15% of The Seagull
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 5th Aug, 2014
Directed by Tim Schulz and written by Liberty Martin, Cheryl Mayer and Lauren Stapleton, 15% of The Seagull is a humorous glimpse into the world of theatre adaptation and casting.
George Orwell's 1984
- Review
- ★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th Aug, 2014
Taking on the literary giant that is George Orwell’s 1984 is a notoriously difficult task, and The Stevenage Lytton Youth Thursday Group have bitten off a little more than they…
Frankenstein: UnBolted
- Review
- ★★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st Aug, 2014
Mary Shelley is likely turning in her grave at Last Chance Saloon’s rendition of Frankenstein, but no doubt she’s also struggling to stifle a giggle at their heartfelt whack at…
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