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Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: ...and Helen

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpaceTriplex
12th - 17th Aug 2024

In an afterlife, Gilbert and Sullivan decide to acknowledge Helen Carte’s contribution to their legacy.

Catherine Bohart: Again, With Feelings

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
10th - 25th Aug 2024

Catherine Bohart’s back and ready to talk about her feelings (again).

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…

Catherine McCafferty: (Not) That Bad

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Mash House
1st - 25th Aug 2024

Catherine McCafferty is (Not) That Bad.

Catherine Cohen: Come For Me

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 25th Aug 2024

Catherine Cohen is back.

Tarantara – An Afternoon of Gilbert and Sullivan

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stables at Prestonfield
19th Aug 2023

An afternoon of Gilbert and Sullivan will be performed by singers from English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Carl Rosa and D’Oyly Carte.

Catherine Cohen: Come For Me

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
14th - 27th Aug 2023

After her critically acclaimed Netflix special The Twist.

Gilbert and Sullivan's Nightmare

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
14th - 26th Aug 2023

Meet Old Adam: he’s been in every Gilbert and Sullivan show, but has never quite made it to a lead role.

Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
2nd - 9th Aug 2023

The giddy inner workings of a comedy show in its beginnings.

Camille O'Sullivan: Dreaming

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent
12th - 14th May 2023

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.

Camille O'Sullivan: Dreaming

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent
13th May 2022 - 14th May 2023

‘Queen of the Edinburgh Festival’ (BBC) and original star of Olivier award-winning La Soirée.

Kit Sullivan: Overcommmmmits (Work in Progress)

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Vault Festival
The Basement at Vaulty Towers
21st Feb 2023

The happiest day of your life includes robots, time travel and a decent spread on the buffet table.

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, …

Catherine Bohart: This Isn’t For You

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
2nd Dec 2022

Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.

Daniel by Catherine Higgins-Moore

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Dublin
Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
6th Nov 2022

AboutFACE is delighted to present its 10th annual NEWvember Festival of New Plays! Come and join us for a weekend of rehearsed readings of the most exciting new plays fr…

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…

Gilbert and Sullivan's Nightmare

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpace on the Mile
16th - 26th Aug 2022

It’s awards night and the longest serving member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company might just get the recognition he thinks he deserves.

Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She's Gorgeous

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
12th Aug 2022

The twist.

Catherine Bohart: This Isn't For You

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
8th Aug 2022

Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.

Catherine Cohen: Work in Progress

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
8th - 21st Aug 2022

Following her Netflix special The Twist.

Catherine Bohart: This Isn't For You

Despite what Catherine Bohart tells us in This Isn’t For You, she is more emotionally articulate than she gives herself credit for.

Camille O'Sullivan: Dreaming

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
3rd - 28th Aug 2022

Queen of the Fringe premieres her new show, a rare intimate evening of dark and light songs.

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.

Camille O'Sullivan

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent
13th - 15th May 2022

‘Queen of the Edinburgh Festival’ (BBC) and original star of Olivier award-winning La Soirée.

Camille O'Sullivan

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent
13th - 15th May 2022

‘Queen of the Edinburgh Festival’ (BBC) and original star of Olivier award-winning La Soirée.

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…

Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress

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Camden Fringe
2Northdown
27th - 29th Aug 2021

At the beginning of 2020, Catherine Bohart was busy writing a stand-up show about moving into a new home with her long-term partner and about how life in general was going pretty w…

Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress

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Camden Fringe
2Northdown
27th - 29th Aug 2021

At the beginning of 2020, Catherine Bohart was busy writing a stand-up show about moving into a new home with her long-term partner and about how life in general was going pretty w…

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical... and Helen

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Brighton Fringe
theSpaceUK
29th May - 12th Jul 2021

This new comedy musical is based upon the little told story of the life of Helen Carte.

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical... and Helen

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Brighton Fringe
theSpaceUK
28th May - 27th Jun 2021

Following two previous Edinburgh Fringe sell-out shows, Coily Dart Theatre present another brand-new comedy musical, based upon the little told story of the life of Helen Carte.

Catherine Bohart: This Isn't For You

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
5th - 30th Aug 2020

Unless you want it to be.

Catherine Bohart: Lemon

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UK Regional & Tours
Komedia
8th Feb 2020

Join the star of BBC2’s The Mash Report as she smashes stereotypes around sex, sexuality and relationships.

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: Less Miserable

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpace @ Niddry St
2nd - 10th Aug 2019

In an afterlife, Gilbert brags to Sullivan that, as fathers of the modern musical, all new musicals are basically just variations on their own plots! Sullivan challenges him to tel…

Catherine Bohart: Lemon

Writing a Fringe show on the premise of an audience member who hated your show last year is a bold move, but Catherine Bohart pulls it off and even manages to make a political poin…

Camille O'Sullivan Sings Cave

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

The queen of the Fringe premieres a new show exploring the dark and light of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ music in her dangerous yet fragile theatrical style.

Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She's Gorgeous

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard / Pleasance Dome
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

A show about living, laughing, loving and losing your debit card five times in one year.

Catherine Bohart: WIP

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
22nd Jul 2019

Fresh from "the sort of perfectly structured Edinburgh debut you always hope for and rarely get to see" (The Times, ★★★★), Catherine Bohart has some ne…

Camille O'Sullivan sings Cave

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent
10th - 12th May 2019

‘Queen of the Edinburgh Festival’ (BBC) and original star of Olivier award winning La Soirée.

Surviving A Millenial Jukebox (With West End Stars Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling)

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West End
Museum of Comedy
8th - 8th May 2019

Monsteers Artistry Presents: Surviving A Millenial Jukebox (With West End Stars Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling) Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling perform …

The Catherine Tate Show Live

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West End
Wyndham’s Theatre
14th - 19th Jan 2019

The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedian and actor Catherine Tate, will bring THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW - LIVE to London’s Wyndham’s Theatre.

Catherine Bohart: Immaculate

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2018

Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.

Brahms and Liszt: A Recital of Songs by Brian Bannatyne-Scott and Walter Blair Featuring Catherine Hooper

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Edinburgh Fringe
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
11th Aug 2018

Brahms and Liszt – two great masters of German song in a luscious recital by internationally renowned bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott, rising star soprano Catherine Hooper and legenda…

Kit Sullivan: Lad

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Edinburgh Fringe
Heroes @ Dragonfly
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Kit Sullivan is a boy in a boy’s body.

Catherine Bohart: Immaculate

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 26th Aug 2018

Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.

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.

Claire Sullivan: I Wish I Owned a Hotel for Dogs

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot
1st - 27th Aug 2018

A madcap adventure through the wild mind of a young Australian absurdist.

Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
The Tea Pot
20th Jul 2018

Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of a Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.

Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
19th - 20th May 2018

Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of a Catholic deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge has, as you might expect from the title, a very specific target audience.

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy teams up with incredibly talented musician John Sampson to bring a unique blend of reading with live music.

Kit Sullivan in Digital

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
4th - 28th Aug 2017

Ridiculous and unpredictable, Kit Sullivan dishes out a surreal piece of comedy with mischievous charm.

Camille O'Sullivan: Where Are We Now?

Camille is the Fringe.

Hopeless

Hopeless goes back to Leyla Josephine’s roots as one of the most interesting young spoken word artists in Scotland.

Catherine and Anita

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly Rooms
3rd - 26th Aug 2017

All hell breaks loose when a tortured young misfit named Catherine strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Anita.

Rob Auton: The Hair Show

It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton.

Pornography by Simon Stephens

It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the …

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.

Hurricane Michael

In 1987, celebrated BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish stood up on national television and shrugged off reports of an oncoming hurricane.

I Will Carry You Over Hard Times

Settling into a pew at Sweet St Andrew’s along with a small but eager crowd, I had no idea what to expect from I Will Carry You Over Hard Times.

Joe Black: Meet Me At The Eldorado

In this lushly hilarious show, noir superstar Joe Black conjures up the atmosphere of the Eldorado; the Berlin nightclub that served as a regular haunt for gay men and women before…

Cinebra: A History Of Horror

Meet Megan and Sophie.

Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous

It shouldn’t take long for you to notice that despite his name, Alfie Ordinary is as far from the boy next door as you’re likely to get.

The Brighton Killers

In the era of Serial, Making a Murderer and Casting JonBenet, it can be easy to forget that the public’s taste for true crime is not a particularly modern phenomenon.

Camille O'Sullivan: The Carny Dream

I imagine Camille O’Sullivan has been called an Irish Chanteuse in reviews more times that you’ve had a flyer thrust at you on the Mile.

Homophobe

It’s very difficult to dislike Tommy, the narrator of this one man show.

Strange Face: Adventures With A Lost Nick Drake Recording

“Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere.

The White Crow: Eichmann in Jerusalem

I should have known from the start.

An Old Fashioned Girl

It’s a dangerous move to end your fringe show with a cover of Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? as you run the risk of audiences leaving with that very question ringing in…

Outside the Box: A Live Show about Death

“We are in uncharted territory when we sit with death,” Liz Rothschild says in her one-woman show, Outside the Box: A Live Show About Death.

Camille O'Sullivan: Brel

There aren’t enough superlatives in the English language to describe the great Camille O’Sullivan and her incredible interpretation of the songs of Jacques Brel.

MorbidAbnormalMe

The basement of the Blue Man is a cosy Aladdin’s cave of a space, all cushions and tapestries and tasteful lighting.

Piers & Queers

Review
★★★★
Catherine O’Sullivan
Brighton Fringe
Regency Square - by the War Memorial Statue
24th May, 2016

Why is Brighton the LGBTQ capital of the United Kingdom? That’s the question tour guide Ric Morris poses at the start of Piers & Queers, a queer-historical walking tour that span…

Camille O'Sullivan – Brel

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Queen’s Hall
11th - 16th Aug 2015

The ‘Queen of the Fringe’ (BBC) returns to Edinburgh for five nights only, performing the mesmeric, passionate and poetic songs of Jacques Brel – master of emotional storytel…

The Girl Who Cannot Die

This carnivalesque exploration of the tale of Snow White was admirably committed in its aesthetic, with costumes, face paint inventive use of props and live music all pa…

What's in the Punch?

This stark portrayal of commedia dell’arte figure Punch (of Punch and Judy fame) as he regales in his decrepit elder years in a retirement home was reminiscent of classic moralit…

Muscovado

This searing and heady tale of the inhabitants of a 19th century sugar plantation in Barbados should have provoked a wealth of emotion from its majorly white audience, however it f…

Camille O'Sullivan

If you think that going to a Camille O’Sullivan gig will be a nice way to spend an hour listening to music wash over you think again.

Gilbert & Sullivan Players

Exuberant silliness and catchy tunes collide in this production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers,” under the enthusiastic guidance of the company’…

The Wedding Reception

The team behind the critically acclaimed Faulty Towers Dining Experience are back with a new immersive theatre piece – this time centring on the low-key wedding reception of Will…

Sully O'Sullivan: Nationhood

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
1st - 24th Aug 2014

Place one immigrant in residency limbo for six years, make them take the Home Office’s Britishness test, send them on two UK national tours, say they can stay, then break up the co…

Camille O’Sullivan: 10

You can’t help but wonder how many people fall in love with Camille O’Sullivan during her show each night.

Knee Deep

I have had the good fortune to witness many amazing shows at the Fringe; however this display of intense physical strength, hypnotising aerial acrobatics and aesthetically gorgeous…

Acting and Creating a Character

As a performer myself, I eagerly awaited this workshop, convinced that I would leave The Warren on that damp, soggy day a better actress – or at least with a few hot tips on char…

The Shallow Depths

I was the first to ascend the steps of the Three and Ten, greeted by the sight of a flame-haired woman clad in a sky blue, draped gown - slightly reminiscent of a druid priestess c…

Brewers Fayre by David Greig

A startling and original portrayal of the fallibility of relationships in a technological age, Brewers Fayre demonstrates how theatre can be used to critique contemporary societal …

When I Grow Up

When I was a young little lady, I had dreams of becoming many exciting things – most of which were fairly unattainable career paths, for example ‘the Yellow Power Ranger’ or …

Scan Artists

Scan Artists is a multi-faceted performance by The Bridge Theatre Company – comprised of 13 Brit School students – that manages to effortlessly blend song, movement and strong …

The Old Spice Girls

Unfortunately, the likeability of these two ladies wasn’t enough to reject the notion that they should have, to quote an age old cliché, ‘stuck to the day job.

Slut (r)evolution

The provocative, punny title, combined with my interest in hearing women speak frankly about their sexuality in contemporary society led me to believe that this would be a performa…

The Girl and The Goat

As I left the Warren after viewing The Girl and the Goat, all that was running through my head was ‘who on Earth thought that was a good idea?’ The awkward hitting together of …

Am I Right Ladies?!

How much can you expect from a free comedy show at the Brighton Fringe? A lot, as it turns out, as comedienne Luisa Omielan, fresh from her critically applauded touring show What W…

The McMagicSandwich! [with fries]

I was apprehensive about The McMagicSandwich (with fries), described as ‘exploding lightbulbs, slapstick danger and crayzeeeness’, reminiscent of hot air-inflated slapstick sht…

Gilbert and Sullivan: The Musical

From the first number, it’s clear that the cast of Gilbert & Sullivan The Musical are talented.

Catherine Semark: Shadow Ape

Review
★★★★
Beth Cochrane
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2013

Catherine Semark is a sharp, witty woman with some generally comical banter.

John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing

In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.

Give Me a Tune

Along a cobbled alley, in a candlelit attic, it’s easy to forget the thronging crowds in the centre of Edinburgh just outside.

Absolute Improv!

Comedy troupe To Be Continued.

Light Relief

Review
★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

Geoff Cotton presents and stars in a two-person sketch show involving comedy songs and impressions.

The Shambles

Review
★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

Improv shows are very difficult to do well, so kudos to York’s improv group The Shambles for making a gutsy attempt.

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.

How the World Wags

Review
★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Croydon’s amateur dramatics club brings to the Fringe a perfectly nice but mediocre sketch show.

Best of Waterloo Comedy Club

Review
★★
Catherine Anderson
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

The volume of shows presented at the Edinburgh Fringe can sometimes be overwhelming, so the Waterloo Comedy Club has put on a free show to give the audience a taster of some of the…

Once in a House on Fire

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

From Manchester’s Monkeywood Theatre comes a drama set in 1970s-80s Manchester.

Moonlight Serenade Octet Singing and Swinging

The songs of Glen Miller and Frank Sinatra are brought back to life by the brilliant big band Moonlight Serenade.

Presidential Suite: a Modern Fairy Tale

Based on the Strauss-Kahn case in New York 2011, a small and talented cast enact the possible events that might have followed after the initial alleged assault and before the start…

Reclamation

Review
★
Catherine Anderson
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

In a passionate display of the spoken word, Joe Hakim, Mike Watts and Ruth E Dixon provide an insight into a world of low self-esteem, loneliness and anxiety.

Kev Orkian in Concert - The World's Favourite Foreigner

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

Kev Orkian of Britain’s Got Talent! fame has toured the world and performed for royalty.

Script in Hand

Paralleling the lives of a 1930s German who has been sent into exile by the Nazis and a 2012 actor who has been sent into exile by a theatre company, Script in Hand tells the story…

Luke Benson - Backseat Hero

Hilarious and original, Luke Benson presents a highly polished routine complete with sound effects and little dances.

Small Narration

Review
★★
Catherine Anderson
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

Wojtek Ziemilski presents a part-lecture, part-film during which he tries to express his take on life, but doesn’t get very far.

Henry Rollins

Kicking off his show by saying ‘I’m not funny all the time, I wish I could be’, Henry Rollins set the audience up to watch a very alternative comedy show.

Thomas Hardie Presents: Where's Thomas, Hardie?

Caroline Hardie is one half of the double act Thomas Hardie, presenting a mixture of stand-up comedy and sketches.

Coalition

In a production set to rival The Thick of It and In the Loop, a hilarious cast present a comedy proving that recent political events really have been a joke.

Magpie and Stump in Lolitary Confinement

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2012

The comedy club of Trinity College Cambridge consists of a stuffed bird (Magpie) and a handful of aspiring stand-up comedians.

Burns: Rough Cut

Gavin Paul takes on the role of Robert Burns in an intimate account of the poet’s time spent in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh: The Medical City

In an hour long history of medicine in Edinburgh, Professor David Purdie and librarian Ian Milne talk about royalty, body snatchers and herbal remedies.

Mon Droit

In Mike McShane’s Mon Droit, an American psychiatric patient copes with a growing obsession with the Queen and decides to move to London.

Ali McGregor's Alchemy

Fans of the film ‘Cabaret’ and 80’s cheese will enjoy this show: a jazz and blues mash-up of 80’s and 90’s hits.

Forgotten Heroes

Light in the Dark Storytellers present a dark portrayal of the naivety and vulnerability of a young man with learning difficulties.

Piaf - the Songs

French singer, Eve Loiseau, presents the life and music of Edith Piaf in this show.

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…

Out of Abingdon

Smooth and soulful jazz from this talented duo slowly hypnotises the audience into silence.

Pornography

In a powerful depiction of the turbulent year Britain faced in 2005, Organised Crime Theatre presents Pornography.

Karma Comedian - Stella Graham - Free

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

Stella Graham’s routine is fun and original: she recounts amusing anecdotes of good and bad things she has done and the audience have to decide if she should go to heaven or hell.

Camille O'Sullivan:The Dark Angel

Camille OSullivan seemed, at one point, set to become an architect.

Flâneurs

In a powerful display of live art theatre, Jenna Watt invites the audience to help her conquer the bystander effect.

The Importance of Being Earnest

In a very surreal take on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, FramBag Theatre present a performance in which the women play the men and the men play the women.

Rachel Stubbings Is Stubbing Out Problems

Original and intelligent, Rachel Stubbings presents her live agony-aunt show.

Gilbert and Sullivan in Brief(s)

Review
★★★
Brett Herriot
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2012

Four performers from New York’s famous Queen’s Theatre bring a new production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s in Briefs to the Fringe with mixed results.

Ruthlessness

In a portrayal of the not so very glamorous life of being a gangster, Gone Rogue Production’s Ruthlessness does exactly what it says on the tin.

Sean Hughes Stands Up

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

There’s nothing like brutal honesty to kill a festival mood and the atmosphere thickened with Sean Hughes’ dark cynicism.

Cirque du Charlie Chuck

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

There is something vaguely terrifying about Charlie Chuck, real name David Kear.

Eric Davidson - The Only Way is Eric's

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Eric Davidson is like a showman from a bygone era, blinking behind his thick-rimmed glasses like a cynical Ronnie Corbett.

The Tim and Pat Show

Tim Shishodia and Pat Cahill make up The Tim and Pat Show, a comedy double act proving itself to be a real highlight of the Free Fringe.

A Little Perspective with Imaan

Review
★
Catherine Anderson
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

In an attempt to dispel ignorance, Imaan Hadchiti explores public reactions to his restricted growth.

The Yellow Wallpaper

In a forty-five minute interpretation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper, students from Bangor University question the derivation of madness.

My Elevator Days

The phrase ‘Finnish one-man play’ may not sound gripping, but ten seconds into the performance the audience is utterly absorbed in this moving and honest drama.

Nikotine

The wife of Nikolai Nikotine forces him to give a boring lecture about the harmful effects of tobacco, and ends up discussing the woman herself.

Big Sean, Mikey and Me

Packed into a crowded, stuffy room in the turrets of Teviot, Ruaraidh Murray gives a schizophrenic performance in a production that’s somewhere between a play and stand-up comedy.

Bound

A very American story, with a very European style, Dylan Dougherty’s tale of the balance of freedom and captivity has been brought to Edinburgh by Belgian director Christoffel He…

Bus-ting to Laugh - Free

Review
★★
Catherine Anderson
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

In the wonderful location of the top deck of a stationary Edinburgh bus, two comedians try to find their feet on the comedy circuit.

Camille Claudel

A breath-taking display of passion and heartache, Camille Claudel is a one-woman show based on the real-life love affair between Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel.

Camille O’Sullivan: Changeling

Go and watch Camille O’Sullivan.

Blake's Doors

LSE drama society’s ‘Blake’s Doors’ opens with a monologue describing how much the character enjoys listening to other people’s conversations on buses, as he gets a thril…

The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle

As I took my seat to watch The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, I wondered if the performance could be quite as amusing as its title, and I was not disappointed.

Camille O'Sullivan: Feel

Review
★★★★★
Pete Shaw
London Fringe
15th May, 2012

Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan returns to her spiritual roots, singing in a traditional circus Spiegeltent.

Michael Mittermeier: A German on Safari

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

German comedian Michael Mittermeier makes his début at the Fringe with a sell-out show, packed into an unfairly tiny venue.

Catherine DuBord Takes On The Last Flapper

Feature
Richard Beck
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Jul, 2023

Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe

Interview with Catherine Bohart: A Comedians Life on the Megabus

Feature
Elanor Parker
UK Regional & Tours
2nd Feb, 2020

Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...

'Be less afraid to completely take over a stage' - Catherine Wilson

Feature
Frederick Alexander
Edinburgh Fringe
25th Jun, 2016

Catherine Wilson is an organiser for the Loud Poets collective, an award-winning collaboration of poets and the band Ekobirds.

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