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Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Listing
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…

Rebecca Harrison: Punkswats

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
25th - 29th May 2024

Becky Harrison, “a wonderful a mysterious mind” (EdFringe 2023), is a typical Gen Z (zed): absolutely mortified.

Love's Labour's Lost

Review
★★★★★
Rebecca Vines
UK Regional & Tours
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Southern Lane
28th Apr, 2024

If Emily Burns’ immaculately realised Love’s Labour's Lost is anything to go by, there is a fresh new breeze whispering through the corridors of the RSC.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Review
★★★★★
Rebecca Vines
UK Regional & Tours
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Southern Lane
28th Feb, 2024

Eleanor Rhode’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC is a child’s-eye Shakespeare; a tale told in either the boring black and white of adult discourse or a …

Rebecca

After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in…

Rebecca

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West End
Charing Cross Theatre
4th Sep - 18th Nov 2023

‘Rebecca’, by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay, two of the most successful German-language musical theatre composers, had its world premiere at the VBW-theatre Raimund…

NEHH Presents... The Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble

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Edinburgh Fringe
Summerhall
20th Aug 2023

Glaswegian musician, producer, DJ and curator Rebecca Vasmant, leads a live ensemble featuring some of the movers and shakers of the new Scottish jazz scene.

Here Be Dragons

This is a heartfelt piece, in which a group of intrepid teens set out to discover monsters… and discover them in the last place they thought to look.

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey

Iain Dale’s ALL TALK political interviews have in recent years become something of a regular fixture of the Fringe circuit.

Clive Anderson's My Seven Wonders

The conceit of this podcast is that Clive Anderson invites a different member of the comedy circuit to share with him their own seven wonders of the world.

The Portable Dorothy Parker

The year is 1943 and famed wit Dorothy Parker sits in her New York apartment, sifting through her works and deciding which will make it into the new anthology ‘The Portable Dorot…

The Real William Shakespeare... As Told by Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe is forever fated to be associated with his peer and likely chum William Shakespeare.

Sherlock Holmes The Last Act

With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.

Chopped Liver and Unions

Chopped Liver and Unions tells the story of workers’ activist and trades unionist Sara Wesker, now largely lost to the footnotes of twentieth century history, but in her time a n…

Dom – The Play

This is a strange one.

Wiesenthal

At at a time when the world has never more needed to heed the whispers of history, when client journalism seeks to sanitise hate speech as a ‘balanced’ opinion, and social medi…

Rewind

This is how theatre should be.

Santi and Naz

Best friends Santi and Naz live in pre-partition India.

NewsRevue

There are many things which conjure up the spirit of the Fringe.

Chatham House Rules

The Chatham House Rule is an agreement which allows those in power to share ideas with impunity: the discussion itself can be reported upon, but names are protected.

Anything That We Wanted To Be

When Adam Lenson was diagnosed with cancer in 2019; it caused all past, present and future versions of him to collide in the oncology department.

Summer Camp for Broken People

Emily’s life is falling apart.

Gyles Brandreth Can't Stop Talking!

Friend, fan, or foe of Gyles Brandreth, there’s probably one thing upon which all can agree: the man simply cannot stop talking.

It's a Motherf**king Pleasure

This is a brilliant show.

Matt Forde: Inside No. 10

That humour has rarely trodden a more cobbled path than in recent years makes the mean streets of Edinburgh an especially apposite place for the good, the bad, and the downright ug…

Tennessee, Rose

The works of Tennessee Williams rank as some of the greatest and most iconic plays ever written.

Alba

'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang.

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, …

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace Campbell is a one-woman manifesto for body, sex and mental health positivity.

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…

Battle: A Modern Mystery Play

Battle describes itself as a modern mystery play, and takes the audience on an intricately-plotted historical journey from 1066 to the present day: exploring how women just gather …

The Last Romantic

This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.

Arthur Smith: My 75 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

There are some things as regular at the Fringe as Biblical downpours and overpriced street food.

Three Women and Shakespeare's Will

Three Women and Shakespeare’s Will is is a nice little premise for a play.

Dear Little Loz

To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.

Arielle Dundas and Rebecca Kaplan: Parfait

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
5th - 10th Aug 2022

Two American women each perform stand-up comedy about everything from sex and dating to pigeons and society’s relationship to their bodies.

Earwig

Earwig is an engaging and classy piece which tells the story of entomologist Marigold Webb, trapped in a loveless marriage and a society as uncomfortable with her deafness as it is…

Luca Cupani: Happy Orphan

The title of this show and the sweet, open and slightly goofy face staring at you from the posters should tell you everything you need to know about this show: and stand-up Luca Cu…

Marrow

Marrow is a love letter to memory and to what makes us: us.

Paul Sinha: One Sinha Lifetime

Paul Sinha is probably best known as one of Bradley Walsh’s TV team of ‘Chasers’: a characterful crew of six champion quizzers whose aim is to stop four plucky hopefuls getti…

Paradok Platform

Billed as a ‘queer manifesto against Grindr’, Looking for Fun is one of the new plays showcased at the Paradok Platform.

Boy: Looking for Friends

Award-winning Polish performer Piotr Sikora has created a beautiful hour of family storytelling which uses clowning, mime, ukulele and audience participation to paint the journey o…

NewsRevue

NewsRevue – the world’s longest running comedy show – is as central to the Fringe experience as overpriced artisan burgers and destroying rainforests with unwanted flyers.

Rosie Holt: The Woman's Hour

Rosie Holt is much loved on Twitter for her razor-sharp parodies of the thick Tory politician with Good Hair, haplessly spouting any porkie and defending any porker in the hope of …

Matt Forde: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right

I reviewed Forde’s 2019 show Brexit, Pursued by a Bear and wrote of how his political comedy was as therapeutically valuable as it was satirically satisfying.

Pip Utton as Dylan

Pip Utton really is extraordinary.

The Actress

During the bawdy years of Charles II’s restoration to the throne, one of his more shocking choices was to alleviate the perceived threat to the heterosexuality of female-imperson…

Classic!

Despite Kindles and Netflix and Twitter and Podcasts, our collective love of books will never die; at least, if the audience of Classic! at Pleasance Courtyard is anything to go by…

Surfing the Holyland

Erin Hunter’s Surfing the Holyland is a dynamic and fast-paced one-woman show in which she tells the autobiographical story of her year living in Tel Aviv, the colourful cast of …

Bloody Difficult Women

Theatre has proved one of the greatest allies of those seeking to speak to truth to power throughout the ages.

Second Summer of Love

Yummy Mummy (and Headmaster’s wife, just for extra grown-up points) Louise runs the school choir and helps her teenaged daughter with her homework.

Winston and David

This is an engaging exploration of the friendship of two of the most iconic British Prime Ministers of all time.

Sex With Friends (and Other Tiny Catastrophes)

We’ve all been there.

Kafka and Son

When well done, the biographical show is one of the purest theatrical events known to man.

August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

This is really special.

About Money

This is a visceral and vitally important piece in which playwright Eliza Gearty and director Alex Kampfner have wrought an exquisite little nugget of social political theatre: subl…

Hamlet with Ian McKellen

The central conceit of this production is that Johan Christensen and Ian McKellen slip symbiotically between being Hamlet’s inner voice and outer actor.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Listing
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…

Bard Heads: The Third Witch from the Left and the Whirligig Of Time

These neat little monologues are a sort of fan fiction inspired by various works of Shakespeare (The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelf…

Somebody Special – The Aca-Betrayal

This twelve-strong company are enthusiastic, bright young things who sing, sway and beat-box with great spirit.

1001 Open Mic Nights

This energised group of youngsters bounce about the stage with glee, making a capella look far easier than it truly is and throwing themselves into the Fringe vibe with abandon.

Semi-Toned Presents: A Study in Burgundy

Set in the wonderfully open, socially-distanced and drinks-to-your-seats Garden Theatre of theSpaceuk’s Symposium Hall, the a capella group Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with f…

Shakespeare's Fool

Fringe roulette is part of what keeps us coming back year after year.

Friend (The One With Gunther)

As times of heady redolence go, the 1990s lacks the brittle style of the 1920s, sepia-tinted upper-lips of haunted men in WWI uniforms, or groovy pereniorange of the 1960s… And y…

Jane Eyre

There are a handful of stories which truly stand the test of time.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The year is 1894: three years since the world-famous Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty plunged to their deaths in The Reichenbach Falls.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Working with a tight script from Stuart Crowther and some inspired direction from Stephen Smith, Threedumb Theatre have created a wonderfully atmospheric version of The Strange Cas…

I Am Gavrilo Princip

“I lit the spark that burned the world down”, declares Oliver Yellop’s Gavrilo Princip, before a dying trumpet slide suggests the spark may have been, in fact, rather more of…

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alastair Campbell

It shouldn’t be controversial to assume that one’s ability to enjoy this particular interchange may well rest ultimately on personal politics and the level of individual anger …

Lest We Forget By Charlotte Green & Rasheka Christie-Carter

Lying not too far beneath the CV19 surface of 2020 lie a series of news events that seem to epitomise our times.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE* *But Just The Deaths (and the gory bits too)

This jaunty little potter through the more gruesome elements of Shakespeare’s works really ‘gets’ the tone needed for this strange 2020 hybrid of live theatre / film / desper…

Boom Room

The Boom Room is a sweet little radio play that captures the ennui and idiosyncratic Englishness of lockdown – cleaning out spice racks, a sudden urge to plant potatoes – and p…

Haunted

Review
★★
Rebecca Vines
Online & Broadcast
Thespace
15th Aug, 2020

The chaos of a house move.

Five Lock Down

Conceived, written and acted by Timothy Quinlan, this short film features some of the better acting on offer at the Fringe, and like so many others, is inspired by the strange real…

Lady M

In Nia Williams’ upcoming new musical, Lady Macbeth is a creepy life coach who takes advantage of the collective incapacity of lockdown to bring her own particular brand of… we…

Rattigan's Nijinsky

Written by Nicholas Wright for the Chichester Festival, Rattigan’s Nijinsky explores sexuality, privacy, autonomy and unconditional love within the central conceit of why the dyi…

In Conversation with... Ruth Davidson

Whatever else the history books will make of UK politics in 2019, it can at least acknowledge some impressive feminist credentials, with women leading parties right, left and centr…

Myra

Let’s not mince words – this is a hard watch.

I'm Coming

Molly Brenner’s one-woman show about her pursuit of an orgasm is an endearingly-performed trundle through her long search for sexual fulfilment.

Boswell

Just yards from James Boswell’s Edinburgh birthplace and subsequent residence on the Lawnmarket, MHK Productions & Rhymes with Purple present his famed friendship with Samuel…

INTERBEING – Stories from a Current War

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Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play

The Artists Collective Theatre consider what could prompt an eighteen year old girl to create one of the most lauded, feared, impressive and appalling tales of the overpowering nee…

Andrew Maxwell: All Talk

Living in Kent - Maxwell tells us – he is surrounded by the sort of puce-faced, fake WWII heroes who seem to think that having once watched a film with John Mills in it automatic…

From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood

Rebecca Perry’s one-women tribute to four icons of the Golden Age of cinema is a cheery and bouncy hour celebrating Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton and Lucille Ball.

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear

Matt Forde’s reputation as one of our finest political satirists moves into even more assured territory with this caustic and superbly angry hour of impressions and observations.

Hughie

Tucked away upstairs at The Gilded Balloon, nestling right at the heart of comedy central, is an absolute gem which is a must-see for any devotees of real theatre.

The National Trust Fan Club

The National Trust Fan Club is what happens if you imagine a Dave Gorman show delivered by your bouncy Auntie Joyce and her preoccupation with how to pronounce ‘scone’ (to rhym…

Testament of Yootha

Those not lucky enough to have enjoyed the naff golden years and dubious social content of 1970s and 80s television may not immediately understand the appeal of a one-woman show ab…

Esther Rantzen: That’s Life! - Dame Esther Rantzen in conversation with Rebecca Wilcox

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
4th Nov 2018

An evening with Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist and broadcaster Rebeca Wilcox For one night only broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughte…

Better, with Rebecca How & Pauline Eyre

Listing
West End
Museum of Comedy
14th Sep 2018

Two women, one objective: to find out who has it BETTER.

Limmy’s Vines

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre
3rd - 12th Aug 2018

Limmy is perhaps best known for BBC Scotland’s Limmy’s Show, but when that came to an end, Limmy turned to Vine.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Listing
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.

Seven Devils

Executed by student acting troupe The Hurtwood Corner from performing arts college Hurtwood House, Seven Devils is a play exploring the trials of down-on-their-luck Manhattan resid…

Think Less, Feel More

Taking its title from critic Waldemar Januszczak’s rundown of the 2016 Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy – ‘there is not enough emotion in our art any mo…

Queer Pop Exhibition

Gallery 23’s Queer Pop Exhibition showcases fourteen contemporary Edinburgh-based artists, with an aim to ‘explore some of the many diverse issues surrounding the LGBT+ communi…

The OS Map Fan Club

Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club.

Denim: World Tour

Denim, a drag Haus come girl band, are on tour and they’ve finally reached Wembley Arena (actually, the Belly Laugh at Underbelly).

Tom Mayhew: Fragile Fragments

Tom Mayhew’s charmingly awkward persona hides a fantastic alternative comic mind.

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock are a sketch comedy foursome who incorporate live music, dance and mime to create a narrative-driven show with hysterical characters and a quick, witty script.

Matt Forde: A Show Hastily Rewritten in Light of Recent Events – Again!

Matt Forde is a consummate professional, with sharp observations and confident crowd work, it’s just a shame this show lacks the biting satire expected from political comedy at t…

David Correos and Matt Stellingwerf: Chaos and Order

This show is a mixed bag.

Josh Pugh: A Boy Named Pugh

Having recently won English Comedian of the Year, Josh Pugh has the air of a rising star.

Sara Schaefer: Little White Box

Before even starting the show, Sara Schaefer has the advantage of a unique perspective.

Kafka and Son

At the age of 36, Franz Kafka sat down to write a letter to his father that would never be sent.

Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off

Burns and Quartermaine are the yin and yang of righteous anger.

Vines

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
C venues – C royale
2nd - 25th Aug 2017

The story of a young girl finding herself through an Ayahuasca Ceremony.

Ed Night: Anthem for Doomed Youth

Anthem for Doomed Youth is the hilarious new debut hour from Ed Night.

Deadpan Theatre: Third Wheel

Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.

The Slightly Fat Show

The Slightly Fat Show harkens back to the Golden Age of variety performance, updated for a twenty-first century audience.

Hurricane Katie

Funny Women’s ‘One to Watch, 2016’ bustles, belts and lunges her way through Hurricane Katie with showmanship and boundless energy.

Laughter Is The Best Placebo

Having been on the circuit for 6 years and with an impressive CV of competition finals, I went into Simon Caine’s second solo hour show with high expectations.

Storyland Author Readings

Listing
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.

Still Lives by Ella Turk-Thompson/The Regina Monologues by Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer

Listing
Brighton Fringe
Brighton Little Theatre
24th - 28th May 2016

‘Still Lives’ hinges on a chance meeting between wheelchair-bound Harriet and lost boy, Fred.

Rebecca

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Rebecca Patek

Listing
USA Regional & Tours
Chocolate Factory
2nd May 2015

The full title of Rebecca Patek’s new work is “The Future Was Looking Better in the Past: My Family Herstory: Or from religious persecution to American greed to murdero…

Rebecca Davis

Listing
USA Regional & Tours
Here
2nd Apr 2015

The title of Ms.

Rebecca and Evan: Your Love, Our Musical

Listing
USA Regional & Tours
Peoples Improv Theater
14th Feb 2015

The musical improvisers Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love sto…

Rebecca

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
C venues - C
17th - 23rd Aug 2014

Daphne du Maurier’s tale of desire, obsession and treachery retold by a vibrant young cast.

The Crucible

Drama school theatre and The Crucible are words that fill me with fear.

Toi Toi Toi

Taking a fun, light-hearted look at the arts world and the life of an artist, Toi Toi Toi is a charming, funny and relaxing show, appropriate for opera buffs and newbies alike, whi…

Mike Whellans

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Playing one musical instrument is a talent; playing three or four at once is jaw-dropping.

BOBBY WINNER

Just So Stories

Chances are you know Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’ already but you’ve probably never been told those stories quite like this before.

Almond Roca: The Lost Cabaret

Almond Roca is one of the strangest and funniest things you are likely to see at the Fringe.

SeKret

Review
★
Rebecca Pinnington
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2013

SeKret is the first solo work of Taiwanese dancer Wu Tsai-Lin and aims to show us the meta of Mother Earth in dances based on earth, fire, water and so on.

Kiss of the Red Menace: A Tribute to Kander and Ebb

Review
★★
Rebecca Pinnington
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2013

Kiss of the Red Menace is a well-compiled cabaret with great promise, but which, due to poor singing technique and awkward performance, contains very little razzle dazzle.

His Majesty, the Devil – a Play With Music

Review
★★
Rebecca Pinnington
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2013

Alexandra Devon’s play promises an exciting musing on terrorism, questioning violence and injustice and exploring the reasoning behind them.

Young China Shines Beijing

In Young China Shines, Beijing’s No.

A Midsummer Night's Savoy

Review
★
Rebecca Pinnington
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2013

Advertised as A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, A Midsummer Night’s Savoy is actually a bizarre tale of love and trickery, with only tenuous lin…

The Company of Wolves

Review
★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves is a dark tale about sexual desire, based on the story of Red Riding Hood.

Mrs Green

Mrs Green is a new musical from a promising young cast with the potential to be both touching and charming.

Maddy's Many Mouths

Maddy Anholt’s one-woman impressions show is nothing short of brilliant.

Last Land and Il gioco del gregge di capre

In Last Land and Il gioco, DanceBase presents an engaging double bill of contemporary dance which is certain to be loved by dance connoisseurs.

Missing and Bird’s Eye View

Review
★★
Rebecca Pinnington
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

Missing and Bird’s Eye View is a mixed bag of a showcase at Dance Base, great in some moments and awful in others.

Status Anxiety and Piece of Mind

In Status Anxiety and Piece of Mind, Dance Base presents a stellar double bill which compels and amazes at every turn.

I Heart IKEA

Review
★
Rebecca Pinnington
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2013

I Heart IKEA aims to explore the idea of love being achievable via a handbook, evoking love’s unpredictability and the pain it can bring.

La Donna è Mobile

From a capable and interesting LeCoq trained company, La Donna e Mobile is both amusing and bizarre, though certainly not for all audiences.

Survival of the Fittest

MonixArts’ Survival of the Fittest is a meditation on Darwinism and human nature produced by six very talented female dancers and their promising young choreographer, Monica Nic…

Be Captivated

Ballet Central’s showcase promises to enchant and captivate its audience and its cast of talented young dancers certainly deliver.

This Was Your Life

This Was Your Life is a rethink of the classic game show, in which its audience can decide whether its contestant, Michael, will go to heaven or hell.

The Oxford Imps

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

When the Oxford Imps first come dancing onto the stage, it’s clear this troop have boundless amounts of energy.

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.

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical!

How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.

Denise Scott - Regrets

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

We all have regrets, right? This is the simple premise for Denise Scott’s show, which mainly consists of an hour of embarrassing stories at her own expense.

Elephant Man

Fourth Monkey theatre group are impossible to ignore this Fringe with an impressive total of six shows on offer.

Evil

Review
★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2012

It can be refreshing to see one man stand on a stage without any gimmicks and simply tell a story.

Restitution

Review
★★★
Rebecca Gillam
London Fringe
17th Mar, 2012

Though the script of Emily Juniper’s Restitution has some engaging elements, I think its transfer to the stage from BBC One’s ‘Baddiel and the Missing Nazi Millions’ is not…

Imprints

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2011

Imprints is a delicate and well thought out production that subtly addresses a serious disease while gracefully demonstrating its damage on a strong and loving relationship.

The Weigh In

Review
★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2012

Everyone struggles with their weight.

Tricity Vogue's Ukulele Cabaret - Free

Review
★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2011

If you’re looking for a cheeky musical stop to begin your night at the Fringe, then head to the Gothic room in the Three Sisters for the most bizarre Ukulele banter in town.

Becoming Conocido

Review
★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

The set up of Isabel Salazar’s Becoming Conocido looks and sounds intriguing.

When Abel Met Cain

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2011

Inventive and skilful storytelling elevate the meeting of Abel and Cain to an imaginative and captivating performance, which Raphael Rodan and Anastasis Sarakatsanos deliver with c…

Waterproof

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2011

A young women of 22, recently left unemployed by her beloved ‘Aquatown’ of Luton, reveals her inner thoughts, imaginations and desires to a new pet goldfish, Toby.

James and the Giant Peach

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

There’s no one quite like Roald Dahl for children.

Damion Larkin: Cuddly Dreamer

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2011

Self deprecation seems to be the dish of the day for this afternoon’s stand up as Damion Larkin presents a showcase of all the problems he deals with on a daily basis.

Technodelic Comedy Show

Five years in the making and almost stopped by the Japanese earthquake earlier this year, Siro-A blitz the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with outstanding visual trickery.

Bellylicious the Sequel - Confessions of a Belly Dance Diva

Review
★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
4th Aug, 2012

Sequels can be risky when they have the hype of a previous show to live up to.

Soy de Cuba

Review
★★★
Rebecca Monks
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2011

Though queuing outside on a rainy Edinburgh evening is not normally associated with the phrase ‘Soy de Cuba’, the latest Havana dance craze is certainly heating up even the col…

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Chunky Woollen Nits

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly 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…

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Situated in the charming Scottish Storytelling Centre, ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ is a delightful wee puppet show which is likely to capture the attention of even the most f…

Catie Wilkins: Joy Is My Middle Name

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

Catie Wilkins, or ‘sex-positive feminist on the go’ as she likes to refer to herself, is an unlikely comedian.

Clockheart Boy

Review
★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
25th Aug, 2011

A Professor tries to find his daughter, Sophie, after the first failed attempt of making a double of her left haunting consequences.

Skittles

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2011

Richard Marsh as his self-styled character, Richard, steals the audience away from the busy and crowded public spaces of the fringe, setting his own pace.

The Ride of the Bluebottles

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

Olsson Theatre’s The Ride of the Bluebottles is a dark and funny play which explores the ins-and-outs of band politics.

Sherlock Holmes and the Sound of the Baskervilles

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2012

Adding a dollop of lyrical humour to classic literature is something that never fails to be amusing.

The Jumblies

heatre Paradok are renowned for their quirky, innovative theatre and they’re always risk takers.

Any More Legroom?

Review
★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2011

In Any More Legroom?, Liverpool John Moores University showcases its recent graduates’ dissertation dance pieces.

This Way Up

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

This Way Up is a lovely, funny piece of theatre featuring David Bowie, space-travel, and awkward office comedy.

Babushka

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2011

Babushka’s tale is brought to life with a tatty cloth backdrop, wooden frames and props that litter the stage waiting to be used like playthings from a child’s toy box.

How's About That Then?

Review
★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

‘The truth is.

Arnica 9CH

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2011

Arnica 9CH is an exposé of a dancer’s private life and the consequences she faces from her determined efforts to meet the level of perfection expected of a dancer.

Amaryllis

Review
★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2011

The production of choice for Phoenix Company tells one man’s love story through the coupling of multimedia and dance.

2401 Objects

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2011

With an empty spotlight where the physical form of Dr Jacopo Annese should have stood, his recorded voice introduces the audience to the case of Henry Molaison, ‘the most famous …

MacBeth in Scots

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

Brimming with murder, misery, and more murder, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest and shortest plays.

Muscle

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

In Muscle, five men, ranging from young to old, explore and play a variety of male characters that challenge what it is it to be a man.

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

Hans Christian Andersen’s stories continue to enchant children and adults alike and ‘The Snow Queen’ remains a popular favourite on stage.

DugOut Theatre's Inheritance Blues

DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.

The Ballet Ruse

Review
★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2011

Muirne Bloomer and Emma O’Kane march and stamp across the space with mocking routines of Swan Lake in this production that takes a sour look into how a career in ballet can be to…

As Ye Sow

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Nursing homes are unsettling places at the best of times and Theatre of the Damned have turned this real-life anxiety into a haunting piece of theatre, using classic horror effects…

Elsewhere

Review
★★★
Rebecca Gillam
Camden Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

After a guitar cover of an American classic, the scene is set; three Italians presenting to a judge in a court room, their manner bizarre, their wrongdoings unknown.

Tam O'Shanter

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, is often sentimentalised, but anyone who has read Tam ‘O Shanter will know that Burns didn’t just write about mice and mountain daisie…

The Dick Gaughan Band (feat The Bevvy Sisters)

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
27th Aug, 2012

Sometimes music does more than simply entertain you – sometimes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck and makes you sit up and listen.

Michael McGoldrick, John Doyle and John McCusker

These are three astonishingly talented musicians; the acclaim surrounding them all is justified.

Three Balls and a New Suit

Review
★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2011

The Voodoo Rooms provide old-school trendy surroundings for a comedy variety show.

Pushing Up Poppies

Review
★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2011

Impressive set design promises a fresh and cutting-edge take on the foul conditions of the trenches during World War I for four men.

Sesame Street Live - Elmo Makes Music

Review
★★★
Rebecca Brown
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

How do you get to Sesame Street? This is a question many of us have asked throughout our lives and receiving a ticket to Sesame Street Live was, for me, like someone had suddenly h…

The Golden Dragon

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2011

Most people are accustomed to the standard Chinese ornaments and decorations in their local takeaway.

Jimmy McGhie: Artificial Intelligence

Review
★★★★
Rebecca Jones
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

Jimmy McGhie may sweat away two litres in his hour stand up, but it’s worth it for the amount of people he wins over.

Jake Shears and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem join the cast of Cabaret

Feature
Sue Denham
West End
15th Aug, 2023

The producers of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club have announced that from Monday 25 September 2023, the roles of The Emcee and Sally Bowles will be played by music icons Jake Shears an...

Rebecca McGlynn: Toxic Masculinity, Gender Identity & Singing Penises

Feature
Richard Beck
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Jul, 2023

Transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn talks about the background to their show, Asexuality! at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Prom Kween’s Rebecca Humphries on Why she Won't be Doing a Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Feature
James T. Harding
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2017

Underbelly Untapped Award-winner Prom Kween is a high-energy comedy musical about Matthew Crisson, the first non-binary person to win a prom queen title in a US high school.

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