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Ian Bostridge & Steven Osborne

British singer Ian Bostridge joins Edinburgh-born pianist Steven Osborne for Franz Schubert’s visionary song cycle Schwanengesang.

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…

Jessica Fostekew: Mettle

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
21st Jun 2024

Jess Fostekew's son’s joined a cult AND her cat’s learnt to talk – but despite all that she’s fine, actually.

Jessica Fostekew: Mettle

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
21st Jun 2024

Jess Fostekew's son’s joined a cult AND her cat’s learnt to talk – but despite all that she’s fine, actually.

Jessica Kirson

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
27th Apr 2024

Jessica Kirson is a powerhouse on stage.

Jessica Kirson

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
27th - 28th Apr 2024

Jessica Kirson is a powerhouse on stage.

Nikki Osborne is Bad Barbie

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot
25th - 28th Aug 2023

Imagine Margot Robbie mixed with Steve Irwin, that’s Nikki! The controversy queen of Australian TV.

An Afternoon with Anton Du Beke and Friends

An Afternoon with Anton Du Beke and Friends, and what an afternoon; Du Beke gives a hilarious and dazzling show filled with humour, dance and song.

I'm Muslamic – Don't Panik

Bobak dances, clowns and flings himself about the stage for an hour as he tells the audience about his Iranian heritage and growing up in Bristol in the 90s where Islamophobia and …

Vocal Vengeance: A Murder on the Stage Floor

Steelworks A Cappella group presents a murder mystery, Vocal Vengeance, which is like an musical version of Cluedo.

Tandava

Tandava – the cosmic dance of Shiva – symbolising time; existence; non-existence and so much more.

Bird

Relating the most horrible experience a woman can go through portrayed in the most beautiful form, Amina Khayyam Dance Company return to the Fringe with a stage version sequel to t…

Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back

“If you like dick and hate tories this is the show for you” – Reuben Kaye 2023I was gagged from start to finish, Reuben Kaye is one of the best performers I have seen at this…

2020 The Musical

2020 the musical follows main characters Emily Goodhand and Adam Pictor, two musical theatre performers who have faced a lot of rejection, finally get their big break in a show tha…

A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line - and what a chorus line! I was wowed by this performance of A Chorus Line presented by the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group.

Losing the Plot

Losing The Plot is a new queer jukebox musical comedy, jam-packed with top hits from the 70s and 80s, Originally performed in Manchester and has now come to the Fringe this year.

Paul Black: Nostalgia

Social media star Paul Black returns to the Fringe this year with his new stand-up show, Nostalgia, a look back into his childhood as a gay wee boy growing up in Glasgow as the son…

Siblings and Family Friends

These girls are batshit crazy and I love it.

Bob Marley – How Reggae Changed the World

Review
★★★★★
Jessica Leanne
Edinburgh Fringe
The A Club at the Merchants Hall / ZOO Playground
8th Aug, 2023

Bob Marley – How Reggae Changed the World is a show that is not only thought-provoking but stirs emotion too.

The Whitney Houston Story

Cleopatra Higgins gives a fierce performance in The Whitney Houston Story, along with her band, Higgins sings Whitney Houston’s most recognisable hits while exploring Whitney Hou…

Flamenco Fiesta

Alba Flamenca presents Flamenco Fiesta, a fierce dancer and amazing musicians team up to bring Spanish flare to Edinburgh’s Southside.

Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (plus support) (funny ha, ha)

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Camden Fringe
Camden Comedy Club
3rd - 6th Aug 2023

After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.

Sunshine on Leith

Using the back catalogue of The Proclaimers, this jukebox musical follows Davy (Lewis Kerr) and Ally (Kerr McKinley) as they navigate life after serving in the army.

Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (plus support) (funny ha, ha)

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Camden Fringe
Camden Comedy Club
3rd - 6th Aug 2023

After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.

After The Act (A Section 28 Musical)

After The Act (A Section 28 Musical) is an eye-opening performance about Section 28 a series of laws introduced to the UK in the 1980s that prohibited the “promotion of homosexua…

The Black Blues Brothers

An acrobatic spoof of the movie The Blues Brothers, with plenty of flips and stunts weaved in alongside some clowning.

Havana Street Party

The vibes of a Havana street party brought to McEwan Hall, this dance troupe from Havana, Cuba are simply stellar, with styles such as street dance, salsa, rumba, afro and contempo…

Josh Weller: Age Against The Machine

I’ve never laughed so much at a someone else’s shortcomings in my life.

Knock, Knock

Four TikTok comedy stars try their hand at stand up comedy this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, hosted by Coco Sarel and stars Steven Mckell, Ayamé Ponder and Henry Rowley.

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People

Comedian Mamoun Elagab will not kiss your ass.

Cam Gavinski: Bonheur

Cam Gavinski: Bonheur has been the strangest thing I’ve seen so far at the Fringe.

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.

Jessica Aszkenasy and Katie Norris: Hooters!!!

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Brighton Fringe
Presuming Ed’s
3rd - 4th Jun 2023

A smoking hot bill of stand-up from Jessica Aszkenasy and Katie Norris.

Jessica Aszkenasy and Katie Norris: Hooters!!!

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Brighton Fringe
Presuming Ed’s
3rd - 4th Jun 2023

A smoking hot bill of stand-up from Jessica Aszkenasy and Katie Norris.

Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (plus support) (funny ha, ha)

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Brighton Fringe
The Snug
27th May - 3rd Jun 2023

After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.

Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (funny ha, ha)

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Brighton Fringe
The Snug
27th May - 3rd Jun 2023

After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.

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, …

Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus stop (work-in-progress)

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Vault Festival
The Basement at Vaulty Towers
25th Jan - 16th Mar 2023

Why does one become obsessed with Taylor Swift at 30 when one loved Sting at 8? (years old, not AM) Can one shit on a bus and also maintain a healthy romantic relationship? WHY ARE…

Jessica Fostekew: Wench

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
30th Oct 2022

A show about sexy things (awkward), private things (oh no) and a woman trying to sit on the face of time to keep it still (hot, right?).

Jessica Fostekew: Wench

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UK Regional & Tours
Royal Court Liverpool
17th Sep 2022

A show about sexy things (awkward), private things (oh no) and a woman trying to sit on the face of time to keep it still (hot, right?).

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…

Malcolm Martineau & Steven Osborne

Two Edinburgh pianists combine their superb abilities for the first time in a performance of visionary richness and exuberance.

Jessica Fostekew: Wench

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
3rd - 28th Aug 2022

A new show about private things, public things and trying to wrap your big sexy arms around time to keep it still.

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…

Steven Osborne

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Edinburgh International Festival
Old College Quad
12th - 12th Aug 2021

The celebrated Edinburgh-based pianist brings together four contrasting pieces, ranging from Beethoven to experimental US composer George Crumb.

John Osborne: John Peel’s Shed

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: The McElderry
20th Jun 2021

Another chance to see this exceptional, acclaimed storytelling hit.

Telling Stories Without Text with Jessica Rose McVay, 45North

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Online & Broadcast
A Company 6 Scots
17th - 30th Aug 2020

Tableaux.

The Hoovering Podcast Live with Jessica Fostekew

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
13th - 14th Aug 2019

The podcast all about eating: live.

You're in a Bad Way by John Osborne

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Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
3rd - 24th Aug 2019

Writer, theatre-maker and creator of cult Edinburgh hit John Peel’s Shed, John Osborne has a new storytelling show about music and dementia.

Jessica Fostekew: Hench

Hench is an engaging exploration of female strength in its many forms.

Jessica Fostekew: Power Bungalow (Work in Progress)

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
11th - 14th May 2019

Power Bungalow is a new show all about strength.

JESSICA | Dancing Queen

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Dublin
Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
28th Feb - 2nd Mar 2019

JESSICAIt's hard to get out Dancing QueenI'll choose happiness every damn time JESSICA - WENDY ALICE ROSE CO.

Brothers Osborne

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UK Regional & Tours
O2 Forum Kentish Town
2nd Dec 2018

Due to incredible demand, Brothers Osborne will return to the UK this winter, following a string of hugely successful debut headline shows over here in May.

Blood Wedding

Some productions are enhanced when a director changes the contexts of a play.

James Ehnes & Steven Osborne

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Edinburgh International Festival
The Queen’s Hall
23rd Aug 2018

James Ehnes Violin Steven Osborne Piano Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1 Debussy Violin Sonata Prokofiev Five Melodies Ravel Tzigane, rapsodie de conce…

The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck

Melbourne’s Out Cast Theatre company, using ‘bits of Mr Oscar Wilde’, as stated on the flyer, return a sort-of version of The Importance of Being Earnest to the Edinburgh Fri…

Frank Foucault: Shoes

On the second floor of The Caves, in an arched, brick room with streamers cascading down either side, stands Frank.

Jessica Michelle Singleton: Codependent Arising

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Codependent Arising is an immersive theater experience revealing the deepest, weirdest parts of one comedian in her most vulnerable state.

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.

John Osborne: John Peel's Shed and Other Stories

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: The Blockhouse
1st - 3rd Jun 2018

Writer and storyteller John Osborne is back with a trio of shows across the final weekend of the Fringe.

EAST by Steven Berkoff

Berkoff's East is one of the most powerful examinations of the white working class culture in England.

John Osborne: Circled in the Radio Times

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Brighton Fringe
Sweet Dukebox
5th May 2018

A new storytelling show about finding a pile of old copies of the Radio Times and piecing together someone’s life by the programmes they had circled.

Gauhar Jaan – The Datia Incident

Looking at a beautifully lit and visually enticing set on a traverse stage, this production of Gauhar Jaan - The Datia Incident looks very promising.

Beginning

Two desperately lonely people open up to each other at the end of a house warming party and eventually become a couple.

Knock Knock

This one hour solo performance was a truly mesmerising and moving experience.

Mother Courage And Her Children

Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is given a safe and very competent revival at The Southwark Playhouse.

Circled in the Radio Times by John Osborne

TV has a special place in our hearts, for comforting us on a very personal level, and for giving us the communal experience of watching and talking about it.

Jessica Fostekew: The Silence of the Nans

There are comedians that are laugh out loud funny, every couple of minutes a big laugh; but the stuff in between is dead air and tumbleweed.

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.

Jessica Fostekew: You Know What I Did Last Summer

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
7th - 21st May 2017

A brand-new show in preview from Jessica Fostekew.

This Belongs to George Osborne

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
4th - 28th Aug 2016

Sit back and relax as we honour today’s real comedic geniuses – our very own tax-shirking, pig-pumping Westminster massive! Come join in a celebration of the absurdist joy that…

Jessica Fostekew: Monster in a Cardigan (Work In Progress)

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
8th - 15th May 2016

The early rumblings of a wonderful new show about fear, love and being frazzocked.

John Osborne - Most people aren't that happy, anyway

Radio 4 poet and author John Osbourne presents his first poetry set at the Edinburgh Fringe.

5 Kilo Sugar

Tik-sho-ret (‘communication’) Theatre Company have achieved their manifesto of giving a platform to Israeli and Jewish theatre.

Hamlet (A One Man Play)

Even the most seasoned audience member has to concentrate to grasp every line of a Shakespeare play.

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

This sketch show offers an hour of clean-cut and well-rehearsed comedy.

Sleeping Trees: Mafia?/Western?

Western? is like watching your three little brothers playing Cowboys and Indians - with excellent band accompaniment, inventive slapstick and relentless wit.

Sex Rated G

Advertised as ‘A One-Woman Play With A Man In’, I had preconceptions about this show that involved transgender, cross-dressing, and insightful anecdotes about sexual orientatio…

John Osborne: Most People Aren't That Happy, Anyway

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Brighton Fringe
Otherplace at the Basement: The Pit
8th - 10th May 2015

Writer and performer John Osborne (John Peel’s Shed, Sky 1’s After Hours) performs his first ever hour long poetry show.

Paul Huang and Jessica Xylina Osborne

Lincoln Center’s popular Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts series offers rewarding, mostly younger artists in 60-minute programs starting at 11 a.

The Evolution Will Be Televised

Kate Smurthwaite brings a wonderful hour of comedy mixed with a lovely science lesson to the Free Fringe, and is on every day at 8:20pm until the 23rd August.

Ricky and Dave - Gigglelos

Ricky and Dave – Gigglelos is a Free Fringe show and hour of light humour that relaxes you into laughing in a comfortable atmosphere.

Julian McCullough: Dream Girls

Dream Girls is a masterful collection of comedy mixed with surprisingly (even for McCullough) emotional moments that had the audience in awe.

Leith At War

Review
★★★
Jessica Innes
Edinburgh
Leith Hub
2nd Jul, 2014

Set in the midst of the Second World War as the planes start to fly over the skies of Britain, Leith At War brought a wave of nostalgia to the audience.

Jessica Fostekew: Moving

Review
★★★★
Adam Harwood
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

The theme of moving house - especially a move that brings you into permanent residence with your partner and an opportunity to learn all their annoying habits - might strike many a…

Chris Mayo's Identity Crisis

We’ve all had our fair share of embarrassing moments, and at The Brunswick Chris Mayo, complete with a projection of various photos, is happy enough to share some of his most gut…

On the Beach by John Osborne

Several years ago, John Osborne got a job teaching at a summer school in the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset.

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.

Song of the Seagull

Review
★★★
Jessica Lambert
London Fringe
16th Mar, 2012

A musical drama inspired by Chekhov? It’s a concept that inspires more of an ‘oh’ than an ‘oh my, where can I get a ticket?’ Visions of passionate speeches interrupted by…

No Picnic

Review
★★
Jessica Lambert
London Fringe
23rd Mar, 2012

Don’t go down to the woods today.

Bug by Tracy Letts

When a lonely, alcoholic, substance abuser takes in an AWOL soldier into her home, and inevitably into her heart, I think everyone’s alarm bells start ringing, don’t they? This…

What Would Helen Mirren Do?

It’s unusual for a play to make you smile before you’ve even reached your seat.

Jessica Fostekew: Brave New Word

Review
★★★
Helene Cloete
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

Jessica Fostekew is in love with words.

Award-Winning Comedian Nik Coppin

Review
★★
Jessica Osborne Lax
Brighton Fringe
11th May, 2012

When you see ‘Award-Winning’ in front of a comedy act, you tend to sit up and expect something pretty good.

Jessica Pidsley's I Can Make You Thin(k)

Review
★★
Julia Oliphant
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2012

Jessica Pidsley has given herself a challenge, one that she hopes will help her audience to change their attitudes towards their body.

Acting Funny

Remember ‘Whose Line is it Anyway’ and ‘Give Us a Clue’? Well this improvisational theatre workshop adopts that fun and spontaneous attitude to try and create different pie…

The Silent Movie Experience

Following the success of The Artist in 2011, the silent movie has had a new burst of interest amongst today’s audience.

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 Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Review
★★★★
Jessica King
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2007

I must confess to having felt more than a little embarrassed at turning up at a childrens show in the middle of the day; we had a heated debate in the queue on the way in as to w…

Dracula

This new adaptation of Dracula plays slightly with the order of the original; the voluptuous vampire orgies of Dracula’s castle take place in the second half as opposed to the firs…

This is an insult to Beckett and Fo

Review
★★★★
Jessica King
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2007

Be prepared, the caption warns, to laugh and cry, probably at the same time! This is unfairly self-deprecating; I felt both shows were well-performed, with considerable ent…

ASBO! The Musical

Review
★★★
Jessica King
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2007

A stellar performance from an all-singing, all-dancing cast of miscreants and their formidable opponents from the local neighbourhood watch, Asbo: the Musical is the story of Darre…

Truant TV

Review
★★★
Jessica King
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2007

Do you remember the days of yore? Of gum detentions, boredom pure? Deep in the Smirnoff Underbelly, a group of Scottish students are putting on a play in memory of those school day…

Sordid Lives

Review
★★★★
Jessica King
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2007

Sordid Lives is the story of the overwhelming weirdness of small-town American life and the empowerment of its women, through the discovery of pink sequins and two-barrelled shotgu…

Mace & Burton Present... Rom Com Con

Review
★★
Jessica Osborne Lax
Brighton Fringe
13th May, 2013

So we all know the premise for a rom com: girl meets boy, some sort of complication, girl and boy fall in love.

A Few Man Fridays

Review
★★★★
Jessica Lambert
London Fringe
21st Feb, 2012

In 1966 the American government wanted to build a military base in the Indian Ocean.

Funny Women Brighton Nights

One problem that I find with comedy is making sure that everyone’s tastes are catered to.

Killers by Glenn Chandler

Ian Brady.

Tunnel

In response to the Arab Spring, Tunnel is one of four plays to come out of Sandpit Arts’ first annual playwriting competition, Bulbul.

Abyssinians

This roots harmony vocals trio are pretty much reggae royalty, although for many people today their name, The Abyssinians, would not ring a bell.

The Modernists by Jeff Noon

Living in Brighton you occasionally hear the Mods mentioned, in particular regarding the fights on Brighton beach with the Rockers.

John Peel's Shed by John Osborne

Review
★★★★
Cai Trefor
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

John Peel’s Shed by novelist and storyteller John Osborne is an invitation to the heart and soul of a man whose life was transformed by radio.

Wee Andy

Set in Glasgow, this hard-hitting play speaks out about community violence and gang mentality based on director Paddy Cunneen’s own experiences whilst working in Edinburgh.

Jessica Ransom: Unsung Heroes

Review
★★★
Emily Priestnall
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2011

Jessica Ransom hits the Fringe with an excellent idea that could be amazing but isn’t quite there yet.

Steven Osborne (replacement for Beatrice Rana)

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Edinburgh International Festival
The Queen’s Hall
5th Aug 2019

Steven Osborne has agreed to step in at extremely short notice to take the place of Beatrice Rana who had to withdraw due to illness.

Cocktail of the Day: Jessica Rabbit

Feature
Clare Plested
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2016

Having a Jessica Rabbit at The Whistle Stop with my mum. It's her Birthday today. She's 70!! 70!!! Look at her skin!!! She looks younger than me.

The Jessica Sherr Three Minute Interview

Feature
Pete Shaw
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Jun, 2014

Jessica Sherr is returning to Edinburgh with her show Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies.

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