Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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… 

Kathleen Hughes: Cryptid!

Kathleen Hughes: Cryptid!

Kathleen isn’t sure of anything anymore. 

Grimes, Krieger and Hughes

Grimes, Krieger and Hughes

Three of NE England’s finest musicians have got together to ‘play hooky’ from their musical day jobs and play the music they love. 

Kathleen Hughes: One of the Girls (WIP)

Kathleen Hughes: One of the Girls (WIP)

Queer feminist and bloody lefty Kathleen has fallen into a settled life with a nice boy who can do maths. 

Callum Hughes: Thirst

Callum Hughes: Thirst

“I don’t have a drink problem. 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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

Death of an Author

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… 

Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide to Life

Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide to Life

Live! Laugh! Liquidate! is the message 8-year-old Charmian got from Hammer film She. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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. 

Steve Hughes: Are You Serious?

Steve Hughes: Are You Serious?

Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t… 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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… 

Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide To Love

Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide To Love

How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences. 

Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide To Love

Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide To Love

How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences. 

Charmian Hughes: SHE

Charmian Hughes: SHE

Revenge is a dish best served burnt!  Charmian set out to be a good girl, but finds it’s the bad girls that get remembered! And the baddest of them all is ‘SHE’, ancient ven… 

Steve Hughes: Are You Serious?

Steve Hughes: Are You Serious?

Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t… 

Steve Hughes: Are You Serious?

Steve Hughes: Are You Serious?

Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t… 

Melinda Hughes: Off the Scale

Melinda Hughes: Off the Scale

Melinda Hughes is a prodigious cabaret vocalist and political satirist who brings her new show Off The Scale to this year’s Fringe, backed by a wonderful three-piece band. 

Charmian Hughes: What-not

Charmian Hughes: What-not

Charmian self-identifies as a what-not, the word for people who don’t have a word. 

London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck

London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck

Beyoncé’s Diva is blasting out as we wait for London Hughes to arrive. 

Melinda Hughes, Off the Scale

Melinda Hughes, Off the Scale

Backed by a live jazz trio, Melinda’s show is a sophisticated romp through social and political satire, packed with provocative original songs on internet trolling, cougars, hips… 

Dave Hughes: Live

Dave Hughes: Live

There is no person more synonymous with the Australian comedy scene than Dave “Hughesy” Hughes. 

Mark Billingham in Conversation With Declan Hughes

Mark Billingham in Conversation With Declan Hughes

In Mark’s latest novel, The Killing Habit, DI Tom Thorne is tasked with catching a notorious killer of domestic cats. 

Sean Hughes: A Tribute

Sean Hughes: A Tribute

‘What the f*** do gardeners do when they retire?’ Sean Hughes 1965 - 2017. 

Charmian Hughes – Bra Trek

Charmian Hughes – Bra Trek

Bra as metaphwoar! Life can make us all outsiders through its conspiracy of myths and fairy tales. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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. 

Dave Hughes – The Snorkeler

Dave Hughes – The Snorkeler

Hughesy has left an indelible mark on the Australian Comedy landscape over the last two decades. 

Sean Hughes's Blank Book

Sean Hughes's Blank Book

Improvised comedy is always a high stakes game. 

London Hughes: Superstar

London Hughes: Superstar

London Hughes Superstar (it’s just nobody’s realised it) is the hilarious tale of a young black girl’s search for superstardom set to a backdrop of popular 90s TV shows. 

Charmian Hughes Soixante Mirth

Charmian Hughes Soixante Mirth

What if you met your younger self? Are you the person they wanted you to be? To find the answers, join Charmian as she encounters earlier versions of herself in a comedy trip where… 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

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

Charmian Hughes-Soixante Mirth

Charmian Hughes-Soixante Mirth

What if you met your younger self? Answer - a comedy trip where stand-up meets time travel. 

Charmian Hughes – Soixante Mirth

Charmian Hughes – Soixante Mirth

Fun-filled frolic through fate, flimflam and filosophy – no effing! Sixth Edinburgh Show! 60th glorious year! 60 minutes! Very Sixy show. 

Charmian Hughes: When Comedy Was Alternative (The Laughs And Loves Of A She-Comic)

Charmian Hughes: When Comedy Was Alternative (The Laughs And Loves Of A She-Comic)

Izzard, Brand, Hardee - comedian Charmian’s had steaming hot cuppas with them all. 

Charmian Hughes: When Comedy Was Alternative (The Laughs and Loves of a She-Comic)

Charmian Hughes: When Comedy Was Alternative (The Laughs and Loves of a She-Comic)

Izzard, Brand, Hardee – Charmian’s had hot steaming cuppas with them all! Tales of the notorious Tunnel Club, Frank Skinner’s avocado, Arnold Brown’s sandwiches, Glastonbur… 

Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage!

Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage!

Drug-crazed Moon-worship, human banana sacrifice. 

Dave Hughes: Pointless

Dave Hughes: Pointless

There is no bigger name in Australian comedy and he’s heading to the Fringe. 

Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage!

Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage!

Drug-crazed moon worship, human banana sacrifice. 

Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage!

Charmian Hughes: Raj Rage!

Adventure, mass murder, and human banana sacrifices. 

Melinda Ring

Melinda Ring

Ms. 

JS Bach G

JS Bach G

This lunchtime concert at Canongate Kirk was packed and it was no wonder. 

Atlantic Crossings

Atlantic Crossings

Soprano Emma Versteeg, pianist Robin Versteeg and flautist Louise Burnet make up a top quality trio and they perform together with guest cellist Maya Burman-Roy. 

Angels of the North

Angels of the North

Enkelit are a thirteen-strong female choir based in the North of England. 

John-Luke Roberts: Broken Stand-Up

John-Luke Roberts: Broken Stand-Up

I was absolutely delighted by this truly ingenious comedian. 

Charmian Hughes: Odd One In

Charmian Hughes: Odd One In

From being a Nazi war criminal’s daughter and only girl in boys school to snogging politician Chris Huhne and a bishop. 

Adam Larter and Ali Brice: Plumpy'nut

Adam Larter and Ali Brice: Plumpy'nut

Plumpy’nut encapsulates all those parts of the DIY ‘let’s throw together a show’ side of fringe comedy. 

Will Sidgwick Presents Will Sidgwick - Live

Will Sidgwick Presents Will Sidgwick - Live

Will Sidgwick is very new to stand up, having been on the scene for under a year and he clearly has a lot to learn about material and originality. 

Classical Guitar - Jonathan Prag

Classical Guitar - Jonathan Prag

Jonathan Prag has been delighting Edinburgh Fringe audiences with his guitar recitals for many years. 

Everything's Elsewhere

Everything's Elsewhere

Sam and Bel, played by Josie Dale-Jones and Isabel Della-Porta, are best friends and move into their first flat together. 

Sean Hughes - Penguins

Sean Hughes - Penguins

Classic stand-up comic Sean Hughes is worried he’s past his best. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

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

Benny Boot: As Seen On TV

Benny Boot: As Seen On TV

Benny Boot’s hour of stand up, surreal interludes and an extended, plaintive song ‘There’s an I in Loneliness’ on guitar was a creative, endearing and very funny hour spent… 

Author

Author

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

Sean Hughes - Life Becomes Noises

Sean Hughes - Life Becomes Noises

Fringe mainstay Sean Hughes is performing two shows at this year’s festival and has perhaps bravely decided to make his earlier show, Life Becomes Noises, an extended discourse o… 

Sean Hughes Stands Up

Sean Hughes Stands Up

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

Sean Hughes - Ducks and Other Mistakes I've Made

Sean Hughes - Ducks and Other Mistakes I've Made

Maybe it was the accidental bang on the forehead he gave himself before coming on stage, maybe it was the sparse Sunday night crowd, or maybe it was the higher than usual quota of … 

Charmian Hughes: Charmageddon!

Charmian Hughes: Charmageddon!

Charmian Hughes is on a mission to save the world.