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Claire Martin with The Martin Sjöstedt Trio

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Queen’s Hall
17th Aug 2024

Renowned UK jazz vocalist and multi-award winner, Claire Martin OBE, reunites with her accomplished Swedish trio, led by exceptional pianist and arranger, Martin Sjöstedt, for new…

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…

Definitely Louisa

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UK Regional & Tours
Hope and Anchor
19th - 20th Nov 2023

Definitely Louise explores the vulnerabilities and self-esteem issues that underlie even the most confident veneers.

2.7 Men – Louis George, Will Scambler and Louisa Corr

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
3rd - 15th Aug 2023

These three rising stars of the London comedy circuit have come to Edinburgh to do two things: blow their life savings on an Airbnb and perform an hour of mind-melting stand-up com…

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…

A Masterclass with Cumley St. Claire: Freeing the Florist Within

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Camden Fringe
Hen & Chickens Theatre
18th - 21st Aug 2022

Meet Cumley St.

A Masterclass with Cumley St. Claire: Freeing the Florist Within

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Camden Fringe
Hen & Chickens Theatre
20th Aug 2021 - 21st Aug 2022

Meet Cumley St.

Claire Haus: Hausfire (WIP)

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Camden Fringe
Camden Comedy Club
12th - 13th Aug 2022

High energy.

Claire Haus: Hausfire (WIP)

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Camden Fringe
Camden Comedy Club
12th - 13th Aug 2022

High energy.

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…

A Masterclass with Cumley St. Claire: Freeing the Florist Within

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Camden Fringe
Hen & Chickens Theatre / Hen and Chickens Theatre Pub
20th - 22nd Aug 2021

Meet Cumley St.

Claire Lenahan - Chaotic Magic (WIP)

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West End
Museum of Comedy
7th Mar 2020

Claire Lenahan is your bog standard obnoxious American comedian / magician/ escapologist / identity thief.

Claire Hastings and Jenn Butterworth

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Edinburgh Fringe
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
25th Aug 2019

Since winning BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year (2015) Glasgow-based folksinger-songwriter and ukulele player Claire Hastings has made her name on the folk scene.

Gabby Best: 10,432 Sheep

Gabby Best’s Edinburgh show 10,432 Sheep is about her struggle with insomnia, and her approach to coping with life in general.

Louisa Keight: Jinkies!

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Camden Fringe
Camden Comedy Club
1st - 3rd Aug 2019

One-woman character comedy from a former Cambridge Footlight.

Split the Bill – Claire Haus, Suzie Preece and Josh Weller

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
1st - 10th Aug 2019

Three 30-somethings.

Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid

You can never be entirely sure if the material a comedian is sharing is true, based in truth, or completely fabricated.

Grave St Claire: Hard Bop

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
1st - 25th Aug 2019

New Zealand comedian, Grave St Claire, brings his multimedia comedy show to Edinburgh for the first time.

Pindos

Pindos is former Cambridge Footlight Milo Edwards’ debut hour at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Louisa Fitzhardinge: Comma Sutra

Louisa Fitzhardinge’s magnum opus, Comma Sutra, promises to twang on the heartstrings of all us self-appointed vigilante protectors of the fundamental principles of the English L…

An Audience with Yasmine Day

If character comedy tickles your funny bone then look no further than An Audience With Yasmine Day at Pleasance Courtyard.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Live at the Fringe

Not many comedy fans would turn down the chance to see the legendary Whose Line Is It Anyway? gang live.

Claire Dowie's When I Fall If I Fall

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Edinburgh Fringe
Summerhall
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

Leaping barriers of age, sexuality and gender, Gloria prepares to dance the can-can one last time.

Bloody Women : Patricia Gibney, Jo Spain and Claire Allan with Tanya Farrelly

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Dublin
Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
4th Nov 2018

Are female writers deadlier than the male? What do they think of violence in crime fiction and how do they handle it in their books? Do crime novel have to be bloody? Ou…

Jack and Claire / Free Festival

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix
2nd - 11th Aug 2018

An American-Scottish duo performs wild long-form improv developed at the renowned iO Theater in Chicago! Jack and Claire is Chicago-based improv comedy duo Claire McFadden and Jack…

John and Claire Lenahan – Loud & Louder

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Prepare for loud and get ready for louder with some shouty thrown in for good measure.

Claire Ford: Unboxed

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Feel like you're stuck outside the box? Then how do you think inside it? Through heartfelt storytelling, clowning and double-walled chipboard, Unboxed promises more 'brilliant, u…

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.

The Ronnie Scott’s Allstars featuring Claire Martin OBE – Ella Fitzgerald and the Jazz Divas

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
The White Rose Rotunda
29th Jul 2018

Multi-award winning vocalist and BBC Radio presenter, Clare Martin OBE, joins the acclaimed Ronnie Scott’s All Stars for a celebration of the music of Ella Fitzgerald and t…

John and Claire Lenahan: Loud & Louder (Edinburgh Preview)

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West End
Museum of Comedy
30th Jun 2018

Prepare for loud and get ready for louder with some shouty thrown in for good measure.

Tina C's 20:20 Vision

Tina C is the American multi-award winning country music singer and comedy alter ego of the English comedy writer Christopher Green.

The War of the Worlds

There have been many adaptations of the book War Of The Worlds by H.

5 Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist

Craigslist, for those unfamiliar, is a site where people can advertise jobs, sell things and also meet people for 'casual encounters' – which basically means no strings a…

A Beginner's Guide to Bondage

Fifty Shades of Grey was the bestselling book that gripped the world with its stories about Mr Grey and his sexual appetite for pain and pleasure.

Bin and Gone

People of a certain age will remember Ted Rogers hosting the quiz show 3-2-1 on Saturday nights.

Dave Benson Phillips: Christ, I Thought He Was Dead!

Dave Benson Phillips used to be on children’s TV all the time.

Doppel Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich was born in Germany in 1924 and became a huge movie star in America back in the days of the Studio System.

Claire Healy: (Get a) Real Job

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Adelaide Fringe
La Bohème
10th - 18th Mar 2018

Claire has never had a real job.

Claire Saunders Sings Joni Mitchell

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Edinburgh Fringe
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
9th - 10th Aug 2017

One of the UK’s brightest young female vocalists to have broken through in recent years.

The Goddess League Presents the Lady: Divine Feminine With Claire Milne

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Edinburgh Fringe
Whitespace 76
3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Changes in representation of the sacred feminine over centuries affect our relationships, body image and environment today.

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.

Hans Teeuwen: Real Rancour

With a face like the Edvard Munch painting The Scream and limbs flying everywhere like a jointed wooden puppet, Dutch comic Hans Teeuwen begins his show with a burst of freestyl…

Claire Dawson in A Woman on the Edge

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Edinburgh Fringe
Spotlites
21st - 28th Aug 2016

Lover dead, gun in hand, how did she end up in Tasmania? Our Liverpool born Queen of Cabaret sings up a storm and wisecracks her way through a roller coaster journey of self-discov…

Briefs

“Politics doesn’t have to be dull.

Meow Meow

She’s played in the West End, sparkled in La Clique and starred as Titania in Shakespeare’s Globe – but now, she’s “in a tent in Brighton, in the middle of a roundabout.

Simon Munnery: And Nothing But

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★★★★
Claire Smith
UK Regional & Tours
Multiple Venues
6th Feb, 2016

There have been a lot of Simon Munneries over the years.

Margaret Cho: The Psycho Tour

At the end of her show Margaret Cho pulls onstage a pianist and a guitar player and sings: “I wanna kill my rapist.

Claire Ford: Box

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Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
7th - 30th Aug 2015

Outside a cardboard box? Then how do you think inside it? This and other conundrums solved with heartfelt storytelling, clowning, and double walled chipboard.

Claire Ford: Box

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
6th - 29th Aug 2015

Outside a cardboard box? Then how do you think inside it? This and other conundrums solved with heartfelt storytelling, clowning, and double walled chipboard.

Alexis Dubus: Cars and Girls

What title could be more succinct? Cars and Girls is the story of a young man’s freewheeling adventures in life – looking for excitement, for love and for meaning.

Miss Behave's Gameshow

“I normally hate audience participation,” says the man sitting next to me.

Claire Chase and Anthony Roth Costanzo

The one-woman new-music powerhouse and flutist Claire Chase teams up with Anthony Roth Costanzo, one of the most versatile countertenors today in a new composition by Mohammed Fair…

Claire Chase

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USA Regional & Tours
The Kitchen
2nd - 3rd Oct 2014

This daring, incisive flutist and administrator, the founder and artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, has begun “density 2036,” a 22-year proje…

Claire Ford: ConsciousMess

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Edinburgh Fringe
St John’s
1st - 25th Aug 2014

Aren’t our modern brains just full of stuff? Useless facts, tangled thoughts, half-remembered conversations.

Claire Rowley – The Mouth Trap!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
31st Jul - 6th Aug 2014

A hilarious new stand-up show from Claire Rowley on the frustration at happy couples doing everything together, taking your life in your hands in a public swimming pool and her del…

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.

An Actress Prepares

Irina Diva performs Marilyn Monroes last given interview in an unfurnished black box of a stage, with a pair of heels and a blonde wig the only objects in a timeless space.

The Cure

Jude and Dylan have been friends since school.

Crying Cherry

The Crying Cherry is the story of twins, Anaki and Kitano, destined to kill one another.

Five Clever Courtesans

With Belle Du Jour a literary phenomenon and more and more women modelling themselves on the porn industrys feminine ideal, it is the perfect moment for a play about the lives an…

First Love

‘What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

Figs in Wigs

Figs in Wigs sells itself as an abstract piece of theatre reflecting facetiously on the absurdity of modern-day living.

Conical Decline of Everything

Headless Doctor presents us with the absurdist tale of Luma and Taph, two workers who spend everyday collecting four gallons of water and bringing it back.

Stick Man Live on Stage!

Stick Man has just gone out for an innocent jog, when suddenly he is snatched up by a dog.

Commedia of Errors

Shakespeares Comedy of Errors tells the story of separated twins: Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio find themselves in the city of Ephesus, not knowing that this is t…

Wau Wau Sisters' Last Supper

Starting with a school-girl strip routine that ends in crucifixion, The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper continues at a strapping pace, moving from Southern Country Singers to Hippy-c…

The Fallen

This is a tightly performed and sensitively directed play about the process of bereavement and post-war trauma.

Claire Benjamin Presents The Von Trapp Family Singers

Review
★★
Gordon Noele
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2012

Sometimes a title of a show can be so specific in its subject matter that it can pull the audience in and deliver exactly what they expect to see.

Babbling Comedy: The Perfordian Show

From the moment they step on stage, these outsize babies have the audience laughing uncontrollably.

'Ave a Banana: A Knees Up Through Time and Space

Make sure you are on time for this show: youll get enough exercise during this hour-long musical romp without sprinting down Nicholson Street beforehand.

Hamlet for Girls

Abi wants a baby.

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…

At the Broken Places

The mixture of teenage angst and guns never ends well, but proves to be a gripping formula for TV, film and drama cashing in on the worlds fascination with high school shootings.

Dusk on the River Nile

Review
★
Louisa-Claire Dunnigan
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2010

For the first fifteen minutes of Dusk on the Nile, its near impossible to work out whats going on.

Pinocchio

Indefinite Articles bring Pinocchios tale to life in a carpenters workshop, the familiar story helped along by the shouts of the audience.

Silken Veils

Starting with a runaway bride hiding in a closet, Silken Veils moves into the past, using projection, shadow play and puppetry to recreate Darias parents love affair in Iran ov…

Asbo Fairy Tales

A heavily pregnant fairy, a yuppie Goldilocks, a Jeremy Kyle-style King chatting to a jilted Snow White, Burbery-wearing rats.

Cautionary Tales

Hilaire Bellocs Cautionary Tales were written in the late-19th century and have been in print ever since.

Dr Bunhead is Volcano Head

The stage looks like a science teachers nightmare: covered in tangles of wire, buckets and bins, the tables overflowing with mysterious bottles, flasks, gas-torches, tubes and an…

The Ark

A mismatched group of animals wait in the shadow of the wave, facing the prospect of being left behind.

Dildon't!

In Reading, a shady man is walking the streets, dealing toys.

Carnival Knowledge: Love, Lust and Other Human Oddities

When Naomi Grossmans second self-penned show, Carnival Knowledge, premiered in LA, it enjoyed a sell-out, twice-extended run, and the actress was nominated for best solo performa…

Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange'

Fourth Monkeys Clockwork Orange smolders with a visceral energy that flares into violence at the slightest excuse.

Cardboard Metropolis

This is life! says Troy, spreading his arms wide, encompassing the tiny stage littered with advertisements and crumpled pearls of wisdom, reaching towards the slightly baffled …

The Divine Tales

Best friends Jess and Gem, two struggling actresses, decide to go their separate ways after yet another unsuccessful audition and a bed fiasco.

Angel City

In Sam Shepards vision of a self-destructive Hollywood nightmare, art, consumerism, film and popular culture are used and abused to hallucinatory effect.

Calling for Silence

Review
★
Louisa-Claire Dunnigan
Edinburgh Fringe
27th Aug, 2010

I have never been the sole member of an audience before.

Patrick Monahan - Stories and Tales for Kids, Who Can Run Faster Than Snails

Patrick Monahans show is a great piece of interactive storytelling that has children standing on chairs waving their arms wildly to be picked to help Monahan tell the story of a …

Cabaret Whore Encore! - Free

Sarah-Louise Young channels four very different, equally hilarious and rather odd women in this cabaret spectacular.

Departures

Through a series of encounters and conversations in Airport waiting lounges, the storyline of John Godbers Departures moves from gentle comedy to drama as the characters frustr…

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Pants on Fire Productions place Ovids Metamorphoses in a 1940s world of bombers, wireless, BBC accents and gas masks.

Deepchurch Hollow

Like all good horror-plays, Slippery Rock Theatres production of Deepchurch Hollow relies on odd noises, half-glimpses and the gradual increasing of tension to keep its audience …

Dead

Based loosely on Ibsens When We Dead Awaken, Dead follows artist Pauric Fermoy back to Ireland, his pretty young wife in tow.

Ali Cook: Pieces of Strange

Looking more like a cheeky London chap than a mysterious magician, Ali Cook blends comedy and sleight of hand to create a great show that will keep you laughing and leave you speec…

Bound

On the first day of their holiday, the mismatched crew of The Violet are forced to set sail once again, pushing further and further out to sea in their search for fish that will sa…

Rosie Wilby - Further Science of Sex

Dressed in lab-coat and goggles, Rosie Wilby is here to inform us about what makes us tick the whys and wherefores of lust and love for people of all sexual persuasions.

Claire Woolner: Pee Power

Feature
Richard Beck
Edinburgh Fringe
31st Jul, 2023

Claire Woolner, the LA-based absurdist comedian, performance artist and surrealist clown, talks about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe

Choreographers Claire Cunningham and Ramesh Meyyappan talk Hieronymus Bosch and Madame Butterfly

Feature
Paul F Cockburn
Edinburgh Fringe
27th Jul, 2015

Acclaimed choreographers and performers Ramesh Meyyappan and Claire Cunningham bring two startling – and highly personal – shows to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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