The Passion of Andrea 2

The Passion of Andrea 2

The Passion of Andrea 2 is like trying to hold soap when it’s wet. 

Andrea's 21st-Century Speakeasy!

Andrea's 21st-Century Speakeasy!

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a… 

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police: Ab-so-lute-ly Jazzed!

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police: Ab-so-lute-ly Jazzed!

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, … 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br… 

Andrea Spisto: El Dizzy Beast

Andrea Spisto: El Dizzy Beast

Are you just a teenage dirtbag, baby? Wanna watch weird vids and drink morning coffee with me, maybe? This is a show about a queer, autistic, Latinx, caterpillar on the edge. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott. 

Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress

Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress

Join Andrea Hubert (BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy winner 2013, What’s On London Best Debut Show 2016) for just under an hour of new/terrible/amazing/unacceptable comedy ideas and half-fini… 

Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress

Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress

Join Andrea Hubert (BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy winner 2013, What’s On London Best Debut Show 2016) for just under an hour of new/terrible/amazing/unacceptable comedy ideas and half-fini… 

Talk discussing the novel Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villaronga with translator Louise Johnson

Talk discussing the novel Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villaronga with translator Louise Johnson

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Andrea Hubert: One of The Good Ones

Andrea Hubert: One of The Good Ones

A comedy show by Andrea Hubert, in which she’ll mostly bitch about the people in her group therapy, while attempting to make a point about ageing and being Jewish … 

Andrea's 21st-Century Speakeasy!

Andrea's 21st-Century Speakeasy!

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

Andrea Spisto: Butch Princesa

Andrea Spisto: Butch Princesa

Here's a new twist on the cabaret variety show: one woman performs the whole variety. 

Andrea Chenier

Andrea Chenier

The poet Andrea Chénier attends a party at the Countess di Coigny's mansion. 

Stranger than Fiction: Shane Dunphy, Andrea Carter & Cormac O’Keefe with Jane Casey

Stranger than Fiction: Shane Dunphy, Andrea Carter & Cormac O’Keefe with Jane Casey

How much does real life influence fiction? Is the truth sometimes stranger? Four crime writers with close ties to the law and law makers, discuss how real life has influ… 

Andrea Carlson: 21st-Century Speakeasy

Andrea Carlson: 21st-Century Speakeasy

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

Andrea Spisto: Miss Venezuela

Andrea Spisto: Miss Venezuela

One Venezuelan beauty queen goes on a radical journey of self-discovery as she prepares for the all-important Miss Universe competition. 

Andrea Hubert: Holes of Joy

Andrea Hubert: Holes of Joy

Life is a heavy blanket of sadness and if you want joy, you’ve got to poke some holes. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey. 

ADORE BY ANDREA

ADORE BY ANDREA

“PURE, RAW, ELOQUENT. 

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police!

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police!

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum. 

Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress

Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress

Join Andrea Hubert (BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy winner 2013, What’s On London Best Debut Show 2016) for just under an hour of new/terrible/amazing/unacceptable comedy ideas and half-fini… 

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police!

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police!

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

Andrea Hubert: Week

Andrea Hubert: Week

Gliding in wearing a mint green and lace floaty dress, Andrea Hubert appears calm and somewhat airy as she walks out onto the stage. 

Andrea Hubert: Some work. Some progress

Andrea Hubert: Some work. Some progress

When you see the joy on a small child’s face as he’s about to press the button to call the lift, you realise that your adult life will never offer you that same level of joy ever a… 

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police!

Andrea Carlson and the Love Police!

‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic. 

The Dolly Parton Story Featuring Andrea Pattison and The Partoners

The Dolly Parton Story Featuring Andrea Pattison and The Partoners

This new show pays tribute to one of the greatest icons of popular music: Dolly Parton. 

Andrea Chénier

Andrea Chénier

Lacking the larger-than-life voices and personalities that usually set it aflame, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Giordano’s blood-and-guts verismo standby stays st… 

Cathedral Bach before Bed

Cathedral Bach before Bed

Spread over four evenings, John Bryden’s consummate performance of the Well-Tempered Clavier’s second book is the perfect way to unwind after a frantic day at the Fringe. 

Bach Cantatas and Concertos

Bach Cantatas and Concertos

Combining some of Bach’s most popular music with a few lesser-known pieces, the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh provided a hint at the composer’s stylistic breadth by performing a refre… 

Mozart Requiem

Mozart Requiem

Surely one of the most outrageous Oscars ever given is the 1984 Academy Award for Best Sound. 

Eat a Queer Foetus 4 Jesus

Eat a Queer Foetus 4 Jesus

Despite its outrageous name, Richard Coughlan’s romp of a show proved that though the popularity of gentler, more modern comedians continues, the gag-filled anecdotal performer can… 

Bach Cello Suites

Bach Cello Suites

Up until the 20th century, with a few notable exceptions, the cello was seen as decidedly inferior to the violin. 

Traditional Piano Music from Scotland and Ireland

Traditional Piano Music from Scotland and Ireland

Like other communities in Europe that have historically suffered political repression the Celtic peoples of the British Isles have for centuries expressed their culture through mus… 

Beethoven for Breakfast

Beethoven for Breakfast

For most of his fifty-seven years, to call Ludwig van Beethoven a tad troubled would be an understatement. 

A Young Man Dressed As a Gorilla Dressed As an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for Fifty-Six Minutes and Then Leaves... 5

A Young Man Dressed As a Gorilla Dressed As an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for Fifty-Six Minutes and Then Leaves... 5

Before this show, every time I walked past the nondescript sign on Nicolson Street imploring me to give the Scientologists a try, I was tempted to stop. 

Between Empires

Between Empires

Immortalised in the books of authors like Kipling and Forster, British India has become a staple of our literary heritage. 

Bach for Solo Violin

Bach for Solo Violin

Thanks to their eager adoption by Pau Casals during the early decades of the 20th century, Bach’s cello suites have grown to become a crucial pillar of the classical pantheon, even… 

Kreutzer Sonata

Kreutzer Sonata

Although Beethoven’s ten chamber works for piano and violin are now commonly known as ‘Violin Sonatas’, they were initially called ‘Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin’, and not with… 

JS Bach's B Minor Mass

JS Bach's B Minor Mass

Commissioned by a devoutly Catholic prince and covering the whole range of the Church’s liturgy, the Mass in B minor could be seen as something of an anomaly, for it was composed b… 

The Room

The Room

Much like karaoke or clubbing, The Room is not an event that should be experienced either alone or sober. 

Comedian? No. Just Italian

Comedian? No. Just Italian

Although Italy’s economy and political system have of late appeared to be on the verge of total collapse, at least her sixty-odd million citizens can take solace in the fact that t… 

Synagogue Slut

Synagogue Slut

An intriguing twist on the old formula for Jewish humour, Emily Rose’s act attempts to make the synagogue, and not the archetypal comedy character that frequents it, the star of th… 

Loving Dick

Loving Dick

Don’t get too excited: the eponymous Dick is simply a shortening of Richard and not the male sex organ. 

Quiz in My Pants

Quiz in My Pants

The difficulty with reviewing a show like this is that because the comedians change from day to day, the quality of the comedy and the direction the show takes is impossible to pre… 

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Due to the fact they lived such different lives to our own, it is perilously easy to dismiss our medieval cousins as having absolutely nothing in common with modern Britons. 

Peter Searles: Bolivia & Beyond

Peter Searles: Bolivia & Beyond

Leading his audience through a trip he took to South America in 1986, Peter Searles’ vivid physical expression and knack for detail ensure that what could have been a show exemplif… 

Impromptu Shakespeare

Impromptu Shakespeare

Having been a stalwart of English-language culture for over four centuries, William Shakespeare’s favourite dramatic motifs are surely common knowledge to at least most of the coun… 

Steve Richards' Rock 'n' Roll Politics 2

Steve Richards' Rock 'n' Roll Politics 2

What with the febrile state of British society at the moment, Steve Richards’ canter through our political parkland seems perfectly timed. 

Sex With Animals

Sex With Animals

The top deck of a disused city bus late on a Tuesday night is not where you might expect to find one of the most thoughtful shows I have seen at the Fringe so far, especially consi… 

Bobby Mair - Obviously Adopted

Bobby Mair - Obviously Adopted

Just before the start of his set, a pre-recorded message by Bobby Mair warns ‘everyone easily offended’ to leave the premises immediately. 

Jimmy Savile: The Punch and Judy Show

Jimmy Savile: The Punch and Judy Show

You can imagine how it might have happened. 

Manos Kanellos: Greekonomics

Manos Kanellos: Greekonomics

He introduces himself as ‘Manos from Samos’ though he’s lived as an expat for the past twenty years. 

Old Jewish Jokes

Old Jewish Jokes

Jokes that everyone’s heard before are always the hardest to make funny, so spare a thought for that most venerable of comedian: the ‘Jewish comic’ who has decades of comedic folkl… 

Nicholas Parsons' Happy Hour

Nicholas Parsons' Happy Hour

Nicholas Parsons has been such popular and uncontroversial figure in the British entertainment industry for so long that I could say almost anything about his show and he would sti… 

Neil Delamere: Smartbomb

Neil Delamere: Smartbomb

For a country of barely four million people, Ireland has gifted us with a disproportionate number of comedians. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely. 

Josh Widdicombe: Incidentally...

Josh Widdicombe: Incidentally...

Josh Widdicombe begins his set by confessing that he was just short enough to be eligible to play the eponymous Hobbit of Peter Jackson’s latest epic trilogy. 

Ethiopia

Ethiopia

It is with the long and idiosyncratic Christian tradition of Ethiopia in mind that one must approach the small exhibition of devotional art at Galerie Mirage. 

Casual Violence: Om Nom Nominous - Free

Casual Violence: Om Nom Nominous - Free

Like so many shows at the moment, Om Nom Nominous lures in punters with a ridiculous name. 

Author

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouch’s last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…