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Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

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…

Abi Clarke: (Role) Model

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Abi Clarke lived the modern-day dream.

Harry Clarke

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West End
Ambassadors Theatre.
9th Mar - 11th May 2024

80 minutes.

Bryony Byrne: A Clown Tries to Write a Play (WIP)

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Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
16th - 27th Aug 2023

Bryony’s done with clowning.

Abi Clarke: Try Hard (Work in Progress)

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Stand-up comedian, social media star and ultimate try-hard Abi Clarke performs new material in an intimate venue, developing her highly anticipated debut show.

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

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

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

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…

Des Clarke: One O’ Clock Fun

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre
5th - 14th Aug 2022

Join the award-winning star of Breaking The News, Heart FM and One Show for a joyful new comedy chat show.

The Sian Clarke Experience

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Cowgate
4th - 28th Aug 2022

An ode to every man who has belittled her, made her feel unsafe, objectified her, told her she can’t be funny, called her a slut, told her to smile more.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

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.

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

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…

The Sian Clarke Experience

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Online
6th - 18th Aug 2021

Sian Clarke is a difficult woman, who needs to learn to take a joke and smile more.

Dr John Cooper Clarke: Luckiest Guy Alive Tour

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UK Regional & Tours
Worthing Assembly Hall
28th Sep 2019

Dr John Cooper Clarke shot to prominence in the 1970s.

Bryony Kimmings: I'm a Phoenix, Bitch

Bryony Kimmings’ I’m a Phoenix, Bitch is a glimmering, harrowing, firework display of a show, and is easily among the best performances at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

The Sian Clarke Experience

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London Fringe
Camden People's Theatre
29th May - 10th Jun 2019

This is Sian Clarke's ode to every man who has belittled her, made her feel unsafe, objectified her, told her she can't be funny, called her a slut, told her to smile more… A …

Bryony Kimmings: I'm a Phoenix, Bitch

Review
★★★★
Faye Butler
Brighton Fringe
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
5th May, 2019

Performance artist, comedian and mother, Bryony Kimmings rises from the ashes in new autobiographical show I’m a Phoenix, Bitch, a piece exploring motherhood, trauma and healing.

John Cooper Clarke

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West End
London Palladium
24th Nov 2018

Britain’s best loved poet Dr John Cooper Clarke is heading to the London Palladium on Sat 24 November 2018.

Michael Clarke: Felt

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Edinburgh Fringe
Black Medicine Basement & Heroes
6th - 26th Aug 2018

Michael Clarke has felt something.

Conor Clarke McGrath: Stalagmite

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Southsider Side Lounge
4th - 19th Aug 2018

Combining disciplines of theatre and stand-up comedy, Stalagmite is a surreal, raw and soggy performance exploring the resilience it takes to love again.

Bryony Twydle: Flamingo

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
1st - 27th Aug 2018

Character comedian Bryony Twydle (BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama, E!’s The Royals) presents her debut Edinburgh show.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

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.

Michael Clarke: A Felt in Progress

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Mash House
3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Michael Clarke has felt something.

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

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

Bryony Twydle: Twaddle

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: Theatre Box
12th - 14th May 2017

Bryony Twydle (New Comedian of the Year 2016 semi-finalist, Funny Women 2015 semi-finalist, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sketchorama’, one fifth of award-winning sketch group The Jest) bri…

The Ivor Novello Story (By Arrangement With Samuel French Ltd)

Sometimes a little simplicity can go a long way in the theatre, and in this case, the title of this piece about the life of composer and performer Ivor Novello is very apt, as it r…

Bouncers

John Godber’s fluid exploration of British society, drinking culture and nightlife in the 1980s is a fast-paced romp through fragments of characters’ lives, from upper-class ch…

A Gentleman's Game

In this new musical, a piece which has flashes of The Picture of Dorian Gray crossed with psycho-dramatic elements of an Edgar Allen Poe ballad, a story of clandestine love, beauty…

A Number by Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play about the ethics of genetic cloning and an extension of the well-worn ‘nature versus nurture’ debate is a challenging text for actors.

Cradle King

In this one-performer play by writer Donald Smith, actor Robin Thomson plays King James – at once James VI of Scotland and James I of England.

The Giant's Loo Roll

Casting one’s mind over the great theatrical titles of our time, there are very few which can compete with the concept suggested by the name of this play by Tale Gate Theatre.

At War With Love

Ambitious in its intentions, At War With Love uses a selection of thirty-two of William Shakespeare’s sonnets to form a narrative set against the backdrop of the First World War.

The Blue Box: Memories of the Children of War

A twelve-year-old girl writes a poem.

The Company of Wolves

“Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?”Such is the musical refrain setting the playful, yet pervasively sinister, tone which permeates this piece from the outset.

The Diary of Anne Frank

It is a story well-known to millions, made all the more poignant and absorbing for its absolute authenticity.

Growth

The stellar reputation of Paines Plough’s championing of new writing for the theatre means that each new offering is welcomed with a great deal of anticipation.

Albatross

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Romantic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner already exists as a work of enviable length.

Scorched

The setting is intimate, and encroaching on the personal space of a frail man, in a battered armchair listening to the television (news of the Gulf War is on – the year is 1991) …

Diary of a Madman

The Edinburgh Fringe has recently seen a surge in theatrical adaptations of Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman.

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s satirical novel, itself a pastiche of recognisable and well-worn tropes of the Gothic literary genre, is here given new life by company Box Tale Soup, consisting of…

Trust Me, I'm A Drama Teacher

Seemingly at the end of his tether, a teacher sits, tie loose, marking work, clearly frustrated to say the least.

An Evening with CS Lewis

The set-up is simple: an armchair, a side-table, and a teapot, cup, and saucer.

The Trial

An expansive stage space is dominated by assorted wooden furniture, with some pieces decked out in opulent reds and golds.

Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton

In the latest theatrical offering of a Jane Austen themed adaptation, this piece, which is billed as a new musical by Penny Ashton, interweaves thirty-three direct passages from Au…

Bubble Revolution

George Orwell once wrote a fairy tale in order to avoid accusations of criticising reality.

[Title of Show]

As cryptic as the title of this show may seem to be, its basic premise is established very early on.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Having previously seen an outstanding Georgian language version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm by the Tumanisvili Film Actors Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, in…

Mercury Fur

In a dystopian London, in which the unseen outside world is ravaged by violence, drugs and fear, Mercury Fur focuses upon the relationship between two brothers and depicts, in char…

Verge of Strife

Emerging in a Grecian breastplate of gold, to a poetic backdrop of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est the stage is seemingly set for the presentation of a man whose view of hims…

Love for Sale

The title song, by Cole Porter, makes an appearance part way through the second half of this narrativised collection of numbers, and really speaks of the character’s ultimate sta…

A Man Standing

“You come in like a lion and you leave like a lamb”.

An Account of a Savage

‘What does it mean to be a human?’Voiced explicitly at one moment during this equal parts captivating, inviting and horrifying production, the question of the very nature of hu…

Für Elise

The female object of Beethoven’s widely known composition for solo piano is unknown, though in this devised production by the York Drama Soc, she is given form and identity as th…

BOBBY WINNER

How to Win Against History

On every front, this show is a winner.

Des Clarke 3D

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand Comedy Club
3rd - 28th Aug 2016

Des Clarke is a much loved performer in Edinburgh.

The Mission

Set in 2057, a time not too far away from our own, The Mission charts the selection and preparation for an unprecedented space exploration by an unremarkable and apparently run-of-…

Stanley Clarke and Hiromi Duo

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West End
London Palladium
27th Feb 2016

Two of the jazz world’s brightest stars Stanley Clarke and Hiromi are to set London’s most famous stage alight as they make their debut UK appearance as a duo for one n…

Over There

Mark Ravenhill’s play uses the metaphor of two brothers – twins – to represent the former partitioning of Germany into East and West during the time of the Berlin wall.

DNA

This young company from The Theatre School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent brings an array of engaging, emotional, and believable performances to Dennis Kelly’s gritty play.

Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking

For many people today, their impression of Albert Einstein is quite possibly informed by the oft-seen image of his face: tongue sticking out – to all intents and purposes every b…

The Temptation of St Anthony

Welcome to the Edinburgh Spiritual Emergency Support Group.

A Lunchtime With Bryony Lavery

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Edinburgh Fringe
Te Kore
12th Aug 2015

Multi award-winning playwright in conversation about her work.

Iolite the Musical

First things first, a notable mention must be awarded to the sterling efforts of the two-piece band.

Troublesome People by Jill Haas

The challenge for any writer tackling the well-worn topic of WWII is to find a particular niche or angle which has not previously been given adequate treatment.

Secrets of Us

If ever there were a production which vociferously defends the ability of young people to make theatre with the impact of a professional standard (whatever that actually means) thi…

Naked Knotted Neurons

In this devised piece, the company from the University of Pennsylvania’s Theatre Arts Program set themselves an almighty challenge in terms of the subject matter they deal with (…

1972: The Future of Sex

Review
★★★★
Joshua Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
14th Aug, 2015

Following The Wardrobe Ensemble’s previous creations, including the depicted opening of a Swedish furniture store (RIOT) and an account of the Chilean Mining Accident of 2010 (33…

The Raven

Edgar Allen Poe’s seminal poem, which charts the gradual descent into madness of a heartbroken lover compounded by the incessant repetitions of a talking bird, gives its name and…

Diary of a Madman

Nikolai Gogol’s short story, formed of a series of diary entries, charts the descent into madness of an ordinary civil servant, whose observations on the power-holders within his…

Poppies

A new musical set at the beginning of the First World War.

Chopin's Last Tour

Review
★★
Joshua Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
17th Aug, 2015

Phillip Aughey’s favourite composer is the great pianist Frédéric Chopin and, having been present at a number of recitals of his work last year, he has been motivated to create…

A Sudden Burst of Blinding Light

This piece of new writing from Ben Maier is the latest addition to the succession of plays at this year’s Fringe which in some way seek to deal with issues of mental health.

Letters to Aberlour

Ostensibly a community play, there can be little doubt that the impact of Letters to Aberlour will be most keenly felt by people from the area in which the play is set, and by thos…

Touched by Fire

This is immersive theatre.

Baggage

As theatrical metaphors go, the equating of psychological ‘baggage’ to physical suitcases is one of the more straight-forward examples, yet that is not to decry the effectivene…

The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy

Is this a music concert? Is it a piece of theatre? Can it be both? Might it be neither? These are the questions that may well fly around your mind after experiencing The Great Down…

Jane Austen's Persuasion: A New Musical Drama

Though Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most prominent literary names, Persuasion is perhaps her least widely read work.

Jesus Camp: The Musical Comedy

British Exist Theatre Company admit that they sometimes embrace challenging and provocative subjects.

Desperate Measures: Moonfleece

Philip Ridley is often shocking, constantly provocative, and always thought-provoking.

My Beautiful Black Dog

Billed as both musical theatre and performance art, the audience for Brigitte Aphrodite’s My Beautiful Black Dog, her autobiographical account of depression, is likely to bring v…

Knowledge and a Girl

It is not often that Howard Barker’s plays are produced in Britain (he is far more popular in Europe and America) in spite of his prodigious output and well-known name.

Institute

Artistic Director of Gecko, Amit Lahav, revealed in conversation after this dynamic, forceful and moving performance that the initial stimulus for Institute had been an exploration…

The Empire Builders

The absurdist mindset in The Empire Builders would suggest that any endeavour to find meaning in the play is inherently flawed, due to humanity’s inability to make sense of anyth…

Des Clarke: The Trouble with Being Des

The Trouble with Being Des, according to Des Clarke, is that he has an inner demon man child inside him which makes him “weird”—not least within the context of growing u…

Des Clarke: Funny How

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Glasgow Comedy Festival
Oran Mor
1st Apr 2014

Des Clarke is one of the most popular comedians working in Scotland today.

Richard III

It was once thought that school productions of Shakespeare plays were for the enjoyment of supportive parents and few others.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

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

Bristol Improv for Hire

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

Bristol Improv for Hire sees a group of presumably recent graduates from Bristol navigate their way around the weird and wonderful world of job hunting through entirely spontaneous…

Exit Stage Left

Review
★★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

The young and talented cast of the Ecco Theatre Company, are making their debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival a blistering, tear-jerking and highly ambitious performance.

Doctor Faustus

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Chronicling the hubristic rise and hellish fall of a man in his pursuit of pleasure and knowledge, Dr Faustus is a play that is truly terrifying to read and yet, rooted as it is in…

Late Night Laughs

Late Night Laughs is a simple compilation of stand-ups, tonight held together by the bizarrely attired MC Paul Sweeney.

Be My Baby

‘Be my, be my baby’ - since seeing Stagecraft Productions’ performance of this Amanda Whittington play these lyrics have been in my head on a permanent loop.

Bristol Revunions: Destination Adventure

From the beginning of this sketch show from Bristol University’s renowned comedy troupe ‘Bristol Revunions’, it was unclear what level of reality we were operating on.

Samba Sene and Diwan: African Dreams

Review
★★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Samba Sene and Diwan offer an ingenious synthesis of afrobeat grooves, ska and funk, suffused with ‘Senegalese soul’.

Lloyd Langford: One Day in the Life of Lloyd Owen Langford

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

Talented Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford has the infectious ability to find hilarity and absurdity in the banality of his everyday routine.

The Six O'Clock News

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

The Six O’Clock News was a varied and eclectic mix of political satire, stand-up, and some serious, thought-provoking talks.

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking.

The Look of an Angel on the Devil Himself

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

Whilst listed in the ‘comedy’ section of the Fringe guide, this one man performance by the Irish comedian Vinny McHale was really more like a talk or a lecture.

Gob Shop

Review
★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

As the director Ross Slater explained vaguely in his introduction at the beginning of Gob Shop, ‘this isn’t really theatre, not like Shakespeare, or that sort of thing’.

6 Foot Silly - Free

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

This free show at the fringe consists very simply of two fairly promising comedians, Mark Diamond and Darren Walsh, alternatively delivering stand up performances.

The Death of Comedy

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
4th Aug, 2012

Dublin’s comedy night The Death of Comedy made relaxing, jovial, if not exactly side-splitting entertainment.

Author

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

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Treasure Chest

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

An evening of music, song and dance from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance period is probably unlikely to set the pulse racing for most and yet while not exhilarating, the e…

Luke and Harry's Dot Dot Dot

Review
★★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

Incredibly promising newcomers Harry Carr and Luke Davies delighted and occasionally repelled the audience with an hour of ingenious, highly bizarre and superbly executed sketches.

Here's What I Know About Humans, By Lulu the Dog

Review
★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

Observations of human behaviour from the perspective of a dog: it’s honestly not as bad as it sounds – but not by much.

We Are Chechens!

Despite its humble setting, hidden away in a small, rather bare studio in Summerhall, We are Chechens! is a memorable, disturbing and deeply haunting piece of experimental theatre.

The Intimate Strangers

Review
★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2012

As the apparent leader of the sketch troupe Intimate Strangers, Matthew Radway adopts an inexplicable and rather poorly imitated German accent and informs the audience, ‘ve are h…

Des Clarke - Destiny

Review
★★★
Gordon Johnston
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2007

Des Clarke is one of the few indigenous Scottish stand-ups performing at the Fringe.

Dubrovski

Review
★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Headlock Theatre’s adaptation of Pushkin’s unfinished novel was certainly powerful, no less because of its experimental use of symbolist modes of physical theatre.

The Oxford Revue - Prattle Royale

Having long been in the shadow of its slightly more famous Cambridge equivalent, this Oxford Revue defiantly leaps out of it, delivering a blistering, original and subversive hour …

Joyced!

Review
★★★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Joyced! tells of an odyssey, narrated by a single performer, chronicling a year in the life of venerated author James Joyce.

The Jhiva of Nietzsche

Review
★★
Bryony Clarke
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

A synthesis of drama, dance, and multimedia, this performance traces the life of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche through the eyes of his Jhiva (soul).

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