Articles by Tony Challis

Michael Topping - 'Heels over Head in Love!'

This was a very entertaining start to a Sunday from a very experienced and polished performer.

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

We are in the American Deep South.

Shazia Mirza - Multiple Choice

Shazia Mirzas show begins fairly quietly with the usual audience foreplay.

Master and Margarita

The setting is Moscow in 1930.

Edinburgh Tonight With Joe Simmons

This was the grand opening of a new show which will happen regularly through this years Fringe, hosted by Joe Simmons at Symposium Hall.

Shappi Khorsandi: The Moon on a Stick

There were some brilliant one-liners in this show, and Im tending to think that this is what Shappi Khorsandi really does best.

Man Who Fell Out of Bed

Mr Price (Scott Baxter) has had a very significant role in an election or so it would seem.

Dream of Sancho

Don Quixote has forgotten his role and nature.

Scott Agnew: Pride (In The Name of Love)

Scott Agnew is a really nice guy who has a strong stage presence and has some very good lines.

Little Black B**tard

Noel Tovey is a legend.

Connection Failed

This is the first production that this Welsh group has brought to Edinburgh, and is the third play by its writer.

The Retreat

Nick takes his girlfriend Flora off for a quiet rural weekend.

Joe Power - The Man Who Sees Dead People

Review
★
Tony Challis
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
8th Aug, 2010

Here was the biggest audience yet.

Cage

This show was written by and stars Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, as Jack, the central character who has been jilted by his fiancée immediately before their marriage some months back.

Rap Guide to Human Nature

Here is a extremely entertaining show that conveys more scientific and theoretical information than any other show I have seen.

Jack the Knife

Jack Klaff was outside chatting to audience members for some time before the show, and shook our hands as we entered.

6766

This is the first outing for a young company.

Rapconteur

Baba Brinkman is famed for his Rap Canterbury Tales and later shows such as the Rap Guide to Evolution.

Importance of Being Earnest

This is a very traditional production, but none the worse for that.

Porgy and Bess

This is probably the most stunning and gorgeous show I have ever seen in Edinburgh.

Poem Without a Hero

Holly Strickland performs the poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D M Thomas, with extra verses translated for this performance.

Homo Asbo

Richard Fry is here a tough guy who is both gay and a terror! But hes such a nice guy you do have to make an effort to see that.

Tony Tanner's Charlatan

Tony Tanner is a man with an illustrious theatrical history, who amongst other things received two ‘Tony’ nominations for his work on Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Paul Sinha: 'Extreme Anti-White Vitriol'

Paul Sinha has yet to really breakout, although hes been building a solid stand-up foundation over the years at the Fringe.

Head of the Fork

Two very young guys share a house.

Stripped

A kaleidoscope of absorbing characters are created by one actor in this play, written and performed by Hannah Chalmers and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

No Child...

Nilaja Sun spent six years as a teaching artist in the Bronx .

Forgetting [pause] Pinter

Beginning with Pinter being interviewed onstage by a voice from the back of the theatre, we quickly move into an intimate and very involving drama.

Stephen K Amos - The Best Medicine

One woman laughed out of all control tonight, and Stephen K.

Naked, Live and Never Again: My Last Discourse on Dramatic Method

An actor Jack Treadwell known to his friends as Tread is giving his very last lecture/performance on dramatic method and the art of acting.

Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl

The office at the end of the world.

Smiler

Richard Fry begins with a big smile and tells us how he loves them and how they light up the world.

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