Articles by Andrew Allen

Hymns for Robots

As you arrive in the space, the audience is serenaded by a cacophony of sounds which are not precisely music (this is a theme that will become repeated throughout the hour), and on…

Janeane Garofalo: Put a Pin in That

‘I’m not mad,’ Janeane Garofalo is keen to point out.

The Pin: Backstage

The Pin return to the Edinburgh Fringe with an Alan Ayckbourn type conceit: as suggested by this year’s title Backstage, the bulk of the show has performers Alex Owen and Ben Ash…

Foil, Arms and Hog – Craicling

The line of excited punters outside Nicholson Hall is long.

The Lampoons: House on Haunted Hill

A late night slot at the Pleasance Dome perfectly suits the latest offering from The Lampoons, a raucous, defiantly silly parody of the creaky well-loved William Castle classic, de…

The Archive of Educated Hearts

"People are amazing, aren’t they?" So asks a lone voice in the darkness.

Wife

There’s a great variety of women in Wife – taking as a cue Carol Anne Duffy’s The World’s Wife – from ‘Mrs Quasimodo’ to Michelle Obama, whose farewell speech is pred…

Data Night

Data Night is a fun, frothy feminist fable mixing clever and silly in the same test tube.

We Are Not a Muse

The image of the tortured brooding man, bewitched, bothered and bewildered by some winsome and naïve woman, is long burnt into of literature.

Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Adapted and performed by Jennifer Jewell, Goblin Market is a solo performance, with Jewell taking on the roles of two young sisters and the goblins they encounter.

You, Me and Everything Else

Review
★★★★
Andrew Allen
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
10th Aug, 2017

Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one.

Puppet Fiction

In order to snare the attention of an average jaded and time-poor festival-goer, you’re going to need a pitch that can stop them in their tracks on the Royal Mile and accept the …

The Truman Capote Talk Show

Truman Capote regards us with a look that cannot be readily deciphered.

Trygve vs a Baby

Phineas Wakenshaw is a consummately confident performer, effortlessly charming packed out audiences with a sweet smile and immense stage presence.

Catriona Knox: Adorable Deplorable

Behind every great man stands a great woman.

Ingrid Oliver: Speech!

Ingrid Oliver delivers an hour of speeches in Speech! From a TED talk to the ramblings of a right-wing shock-jock, and all manner of voices in between, the connecting thread betwee…

Dot. Dot. Dot.

“Shall I tell you a story?” a girl asks.

The Peter Pan Syndrome

Are we ending our indulgence of ‘man-babies’? If Adam Sandler films were the tipping point and presidents with Twitter tantrums were the moment when it stopped being funny, the…

Patti Plinko: Dreadful Little Girl

Patti Plinko glances around the stage in search of the next musical instrument.

1 Woman, A Dwarf Planet and 2 Cox: Samantha Baines

This is a pleasant, goofy and geeky hour which largely talks about a three point plan to get one woman closer to a Cox.

Richard Carpenter's Close to You

Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.

LAID

A woman lays an egg a day and faces a tumultuous decision: will she raise her egg, or eat it? In this hysterical (in every sense of that word) show, Natalie Palamides takes a relat…

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