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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…

Ben Van der Velde: Fablemaker

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
3rd - 5th May 2024

Jump into an improvised comedy adventure with Ben as he raids the library of his fantastical imagination to create thrillers, romances, ghost stories and more original freewheeling…

Re:birth by Van Huynh Company

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London Fringe
The Place Theatre, Duke’s Road
14th Nov 2023

Choreographer Dam Van Huynh draws upon the words of writers, poets, activists, and his experience as a child refugee from the Vietnam war to create a choreographic work about overc…

The Van Paemel Family

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Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo Southside
4th - 27th Aug 2023

Discover this iconic Flemish play by Cyriel Buysse.

Rizal Van Geyzel: Arrested

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Rizal Van Geyzel (as seen on Comedy Central Asia) was put in jail for telling jokes about his Islamic heritage.

Bastard Child of Der Wunderlich

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Brighton Fringe
Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
27th - 28th May 2023

Trapeze and striptease, music and magic, dancing and cheerleading and WTF is that? It’s later and lewder, ruder and stupider than ever before.

Bastard Child of Der Wunderlich

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Brighton Fringe
Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
27th - 28th May 2023

Trapeze and striptease, music and magic, dancing and cheerleading and WTF is that? It’s later and lewder, ruder and stupider than ever before.

Der Wunderlich Revue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
11th - 13th May 2023

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Der Wunderlich Revue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
11th - 13th May 2023

The boys from Der Wunderlich are back at the Bosco! Join us for a riot of pole-dancing, stripping, music, mime, unicycling and men cheerleading.

Ben Van der Velde: Fablemaker

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Vault Festival
Crypt
21st - 22nd Feb 2023

An improvised comedy adventure with this ‘master of audience interaction’ (Huffington Post) as he raids the library of his fantastical imagination to create thrillers, romances, gh…

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…

Café van der Brocke

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpaceTriplex
8th - 13th Aug 2022

1915, Ypres, Belgium.

Molly Leigh-Moy and Carla Gordon: As Per My Previous Apology...

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
4th - 28th Aug 2022

Molly and Carla are both high-energy and friendly gals.

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.

Van Gosh

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Brighton Fringe
Latest Music Bar
15th May 2022

Like the plaintive cry of the whippoorwill or the ‘boing’ of the minke whale, Van Gosh are a noise you never realised you could hear! Formed upon the stony beaches of England�…

Van Gosh

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Brighton Fringe
Latest Music Bar
15th May 2022

Like the plaintive cry of the whippoorwill or the ‘boing’ of the minke whale, Van Gosh are a noise you never realised you could hear! Formed upon the stony beaches of England�…

Mother's Meeting: MAX (Rupaul's Drag Race S7), Two Thousand & Late, Ebony Kruger & Misty Van Cartier

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UK Regional & Tours
Nightingale Club
19th Nov 2021

BirminghamFriday 19th November, The Nightingale Club Were finishing this year with a bang and pleased to announced the return of MAX to the U.

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…

NEHH Presents... Carla J Easton

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Edinburgh Fringe
Summerhall
18th Aug 2021

Carla J Easton is an award nominated singer-songwriter, releasing four critically acclaimed albums.

Paradi Inclusioni Der Film

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Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Player
17th Aug 2021

Roll up, roll up to Paradi Inclusioni: an animation about wonderful, varied characters with and without disabilities on the search for inspiring personalities for the World Parade …

Last Will and Testament of Henry Van Dyke

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: The Oil Shed
4th - 6th Jul 2021

By Karrim Jalali.

Last Will and Testament of Henry Van Dyke

Two men, two different approaches to creating a good play.

The Lady in the Van

The Brighton Open Air Theatre was full of joy, not just because of theatre starting again after recent uncertain times, but due to The Lady in the Van being the opening show of the…

The Lady in the Van

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
26th - 29th May 2021

From the team that brought you Abigail’s Party Sarah Mann Company presents ‘The Lady in the Van’ by Alan Bennett A funny and poignant tale about the generosity of the human spi…

Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag

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Edinburgh Fringe
Heroes @ The Hive
13th - 21st Aug 2019

Miss Sophie has invited her four closest friends to celebrate her 90th birthday.

Conversations With Van Gogh

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Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo Southside
2nd - 25th Aug 2019

Conversations With Van Gogh – Hannah has lost faith in everything and everyone, except maybe Vincent van Gogh; but if all life is creation, then surely she can find the meaning o…

Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy

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Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe
1st - 24th Aug 2019

#GetDrawnIn by Vincent van Gogh while he paints an intimate portrait of his life.

Ben Van der Velde – Fablemaker

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
1st - 25th Aug 2019

An improvised comedy adventure with this ‘master of audience interaction’ (Huffington Post) as he raids the library of his fantastical imagination to create thrillers, romances, gh…

Carla Pol: The Pol Show

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
26th Jul 2019

What's the difference between a sign and a gesture? Carla Pol, the Italian comedian, opens up like a silly Russian doll interweaving her disconnected visual world a…

Exhibition On Screen: Van Gogh & Japan

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UK Regional & Tours
Farnham Maltings
4th Jun 2019

VAN GOGH & JAPAN "I envy the Japanese" Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo.

In or Out? With Der Wunderlich Revue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
17th - 18th May 2019

Which way do you swing? Are you for pulling out or re-entering? Join the mass debate with Brighton’s legendary all-male cabaret burlesquers, Der Wunderlich Revue: Johnny MacAul…

Graeme Collard Comedi-van

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Brighton Fringe
Artista Cafe & Gallery
3rd - 16th May 2019

After a number of years performing stand-up comedy around the country Graeme Collard will travel almost a mile from his house to debut his hour show.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner

Unspoken thoughts and heavy silences become deafening in this gripping production of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by First Floor Productions.

See-Through

Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their number one career of choice.

Bookworms/Van Life (Radio Recording)

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West End
Museum of Comedy
31st Aug 2018

2 Brand New Radio Comedies - For Free! This event is ticketed through EventBrite - please click belwo to reserve your free ticket: https://www.

Lines

With damning questions on moral and personal boundaries, Lines is a stunning and complex portrayal of sexual assault.

Cepacia – Love Takes His Breath Away

The story of Romeo and Juliet receives medical treatment in Cepacia from Durham School and Shadow Dreams.

Care Not, Fear Naught

Piracy is not just a man’s trade in this thrilling piece Care Not, Fear Naught from Temporarily Misplaced Productions.

Eat Your Heart Out

Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.

Losing My Mindfulness

Losing My Mindfulness offers an amusing and uncomfortable send-up of the self-help nation we have become.

Girl World

Frisky are transporting audiences to a fantasy land created by two pre-pubescent girls, Tilly and Inga (played by Camille Dawson and Serena Ramsey).

Departure Date

Departure Date is a comedy about death that sadly lacks life.

It Is a Truth...

When it comes to empowerment, Jaleelah Galbraith believes today’s feminists should look to Sense and Sensibility instead of Single Ladies.

Framed!

Art and crime collide in a ‘brush with the law’ from Laughing Mirror.

menoPAUSE

Harriet Beveridge’s show menoPAUSE could be considered uncomfortable by many.

Our Boys

Our Boys exquisitely showcases life on the battlefield from the setting of an army hospital.

Hello Georgie, Goodbye Best

Manchester United fans old enough to remember 1971 may recall the strange weekend George Best went missing.

Job-Cher

Two struggling Cher impersonators are disrobed and disheartened in Job-Cher.

The Squirrel Plays

Many productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year discuss female freedom of choice, but few do so as creatively as The Squirrel Plays.

Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy

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Edinburgh Fringe
Natural Food Kafe
2nd - 25th Aug 2018

Based upon the letters of Vincent and Theo and Adeline Ravoux’s memoirs of Vincent’s stay in Auvers-sur-Oise, DeForest sets the record straight on a true artist’s personal stru…

Skin a Cat

Rive Productions are shining the light on a condition more common than many realise: vaginismus.

Ailsa Benson Is Missing

The synopsis of this intriguing one-woman drama can more or less be summed up by its title: Ailsa Benson Is Missing.

I'll Have What She's Having

Millennial anxieties are unpacked and explored in devised comedy I’ll Have What She’s Having.

Doom’s Day

Doomsday preppers: people who ready themselves and their homes for survival in the event of an apocalypse.

89 Nights: An Original Musical

The magic of New York is effectively captured in 89 Nights, a new musical from Troubadour Stageworks.

City Love

Both lovely and devastating in equal measure, City Love by Illuminate Theatre Company documents a romance that lives and dies in the bustle of London town.

Fallen Fruit

Two Destination Language are encouraging audiences to see the personal narrative behind history with their performance Fallen Fruit.

Freeman

Theatre is often defined as a means of offering a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.

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.

Everything Is Going to Be KO

Everything’s Going to be KO begins with an educational psychologist.

BARK! The Musical... How the Little Dog Found His Voice

The secret life of man’s best friend is pondered in BARK: The Musical.

Elise

Elise Cowen.

Never Mind the Royal Wedding - Here's Some Bollocks from Der Wunderlich Revue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
23rd - 24th May 2018

A firm rite of the Queens, the boys from Der Wunderlich Revue have been peddling their own unique brand of chaos, smut, nudity and stupidity for ten years.

Cast a Dark Shadow: Carla Lippis

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
23rd - 24th May 2018

Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.

Ben Van der Velde: Sidekick

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
4th - 19th May 2018

Get ready for the comedy ride of your life as Ben spins thrillers, self-help books, romances and fairy tales out of thin air, his own mind and the audience in front of him.

A ROCK LEGENDS SHOW.... THE SONGS OF ROD STEWART, VAN MORRISON & JOE COCKER

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Adelaide Fringe
Adelaide Rowing Club / Arkaba Hotel / Stirling Community Theatre
16th Feb - 17th Mar 2018

Legends Band,fronted by perennial popular Adelaide vocalist,presenter and comedian,Paul Reading, present a tribute concert to three of their favourite artists, Rod Stewart,Van the …

RCC & Carla Lippis present 'Midnight Marauders'

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Adelaide Fringe
Royal Croquet Club
10th - 17th Mar 2018

Join Cabaret’s riot girl Carla Lippis at her pop-up club for a series of raucous late night after-parties.

Baby Carla's Bad Girl Rumble

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Adelaide Fringe
Stirling Fringe
9th - 11th Mar 2018

“like something straight out of a Tarantino film.

Carla Lippis

“An outstanding voice and phenomenal stage presence … an experience you won’t want to miss.

Million Dollar Quartet

Through lively renditions of Rock and Roll hits, Million Dollar Quartet captures a snapshot in musical history: a jamming session between Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee L…

The Ballad of Paragon Station

Theatre is always at its most powerful when you feel truly transported into someone else’s reality.

The Loneliest Girl in the World

Smashing Mirrors Theatre are shining a spotlight on those usually left in the shadows through their heart-breaking play The Loneliest Girl in the World, written and directed by Eli…

Breakfast Plays: B!rth

The Traverse Theatre sadly need to offer more than a bacon roll to make Breakfast Plays: B!rth worth getting up for.

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale.

Ballot Box

Ballot Box from Tea and Tonic productions may be categorised under ‘New Writing,’ but it fails to provide an original scope on Brexit.

Heartwood

Pinecone Penguin Theatrical’s Heartwood has all the makings of an enchanting production, but the slow and insipid script just does not deliver.

Confessions of a Personal Trainer

Have you ever wondered how the rich and shameless work out? Katie Kopajtic invites us through the closed golden doors of a luxury New York gym club in Confessions of a Personal Tra…

Walls and Bridges

In their new drama, Walls and Bridges, Acting Coach Scotland delves into the themes of home and belonging through a dystopian Scotland in 2035.

Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time

Chamberlain has been relegated to history as one of life’s wishful thinkers.

Alex in Shadow

Alex In Shadow from UCLU Runaground proves that puppetry is not just for children.

iDENTiTY

While most sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe play up to their comic roots, Anomaly Theatre Company are adding a touch of the macabre with their dystopian show iDENTiTY.

Dust

Dust is not for the faint-hearted.

Ben Van der Velde – Sidekick

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Espionage
3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Some people are life’s heroes: leading men and women full of swash, buckle and daring-do.

Cow

One Devonshire lass and her cow in search for a tractor may not sound the most captivating plot premise you’ve ever heard, but Cow delivers brilliantly on it.

Tumble Tuck

Though not the most affecting one-woman show of the festival, Tumble Tuck, written and performed by Sarah Milton, still definitely manages to make a splash.

Moonlight After Midnight

If Moonlight After Midnight were easier to follow, I’m sure it would make for an incredible piece from Concrete Drops Theatre.

Van Gogh Find Yourself #VGFY

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Edinburgh Fringe
Natural Food Kafe
3rd - 26th Aug 2017

Based upon the letters of Vincent and Theo and the Memoirs of Vincent’s stay in Auvers-sur-Oise by Adeline Ravoux, DeForest sets the record straight on a true artist’s personal…

Bump

If you’re in search of the next big thing this Fringe, look no further.

Carla Lippis – Cast a Dark Shadow

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Boards
2nd - 26th Aug 2017

‘Divine’ (Rolling Stone, Germany).

The Poltergeist of Cock Lane

Putney Light Operatic Society are bringing a famous English haunting back from the dead with their new musical The Poltergeist of Cock Lane, composed by Steven Geraghty and written…

The Marriage of Kim K

Sugary pop meets classical opera in Leoe and Hyde’s The Marriage of Kim K.

Mental

Kane Power makes many admissions at the start of Mental.

Baby Carla's Bad Girl Rumble: Carla Lippis

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
27th - 29th May 2017

Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.

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.

A Dirtier Weekend with Der Wunderlich Revue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
24th - 25th May 2017

Join Brighton’s favourite (almost) all-male cabaret and burlesquers for a dirtier weekend of stripping, pole-dancing, cheerleading (of course), nudity, stupidity, magic, music and …

Ben Van der Velde: Sidekick

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
20th - 27th May 2017

Some people are life’s heroes; leading men and women full of swash, buckle and derring-do.

Der Rosenkavalier

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London Fringe
Royal Opera House
22nd Dec 2016 - 24th Jan 2017

Andris Nelsons conducts two starry casts including Renée Fleming, Alice Coote and Rachel Willis-Sørensen in Robert Carsen’s new production of Richard Strauss&rs…

Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly Rooms
26th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance.

Van Helsing's Music Box

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Edinburgh Fringe
Quaker Meeting House
8th - 12th Aug 2016

Join Dracula’s arch-nemesis Professor Van Helsing in a gothic camp vamp romp of biting satire punctuated with sucky songs.

Sheets

Clowning is largely known a children’s form of entertainment.

The Steampunk Tempest

The Steampunk Tempest from Some Kind Of Theatre offers exactly what is says on the tin: Shakespeare’s The Tempest accompanied with steampunk themed costumes and props.

Van Gogh Find Yourself

Van Gogh is one of the world’s most famous artists but many people know very little about him other than strange stories of missing ears.

We Are Not Criminals

If you’re in the mood for chilling, hard-hitting drama, look no further than We Are Not Criminals.

Van Gogh Find Yourself

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Edinburgh Fringe
Chiquito
6th - 27th Aug 2016

Interactive experience.

Generation Zero

The difficult relationship between political and personal affairs are addressed in the devastating drama Generation Zero.

The Murderer

Through innovative movement and a thought-provoking script, Clown Funeral’s dark yet comedic The Murderer comments intelligently on society’s inability to forgive and forget, by …

Scenes from an Urban Gothic

Scenes from an Urban Gothic by Theatre Imaginers will certainly appeal to those who have come to the Fringe in search of something different.

The Ones

The story of a relationship told entirely out of sequence as a play within a play.

A Good Clean Heart

It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.

Her Slightest Touch

Some argue that the Fringe has become too corporate and professional, thus pushing amateur groups out of the scene.

Carla Lippis : Baby Carla’s Bad Girl Rumble

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
3rd - 28th Aug 2016

Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.

And the Rope Still Tugging Her Feet

If you’re hoping to see one performance completely stripped bare this festival, make it this one.

Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh

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Edinburgh Fringe
Scottish National Gallery
1st Aug - 4th Sep 2016

This summer’s blockbuster exhibition is an expansive survey of Impressionism, showcasing over 100 paintings from around the world.

Addy van der Borgh presents Blind Charlie Harwood

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
3rd - 5th Jun 2016

Blues harmonica and booze harmonica legend Blind Charlie Harwood makes his Brighton debut after 35 years of licking the blues.

Brooke Van Poppelen Headlines a Basement!

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USA Regional & Tours
Union Hall
25th Feb 2016

As the title suggests, the very funny Brooke Van Poppelen, co-host of TruTV’s “Hack My Life,” headlines a show in a subterranean room at Union Hall in Brooklyn.

We Grew Up in the Back of a Van

We Grew Up in the Back of a Van is a fun and energetic show with a big heart.

James Van Praagh

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Edinburgh Fringe
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
7th - 8th Aug 2015

New York Times best-selling author and subject of a major Hollywood film starring Ted Danson, James Van Praagh demonstrates his unique talent and psychic abilities in a demonstrati…

Elza van den Heever

Her voice big but flexible and sensitive, this South African soprano makes her New York recital debut.

Burger Van

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Edinburgh Fringe
Phones 4U
1st - 25th Aug 2014

A brand new show about working in a burger van and dreaming of being absolutely anywhere else.

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.

Ben Van der Velde's Chain Letter

Review
★★★
Kenza Marland
Edinburgh Fringe
1st Aug, 2013

Self-proclaimed Jewish-Geordie Ben Van Der Velde offers a warm, witty and refreshingly passionate tale depicting his quest to rekindle the art of letter-writing and save it from it…

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…

The Mysterious World of Clovis Van Darkhelm

Review
★★★
Katherine Burr
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

Ever wondered if magic can really happen? Do ghosts exist? What actually is Anthropology? Clovis Van Darkhelm has some answers, though they may not be exactly what you were expecti…

Sharon Van Etten

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Edinburgh International Festival
Leith Theatre
21st Aug 2019

Emotionally raw harmonic melodies abound on New Jersey songwriter Sharon Van Etten’s songs of love and loss.

Danyah Miller’s Inspection of Perfection

Feature
Carla van der Sluijs
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2017

As a course leader at The International School of Storytelling, Danyah Miller can certainly spin a good yarn.

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