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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…

Micky Bartlett: THICC!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic Nucleus
1st - 25th Aug 2024

Northern Ireland’s comedy behemoth unleashes his hilarious new hour, fresh from his sell-out Belfast Waterfront Hall shows and his Australian tour.

Stephanie Bradshaw: Big Fish

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Patter House
31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

Big Fish is Stephanie Bradshaw’s debut stand-up show, inspired by her life as an attention-seeking (anxious, delicate, shy) mega diva, based in the small rural town of Keswick, Cum…

Stephanie Laing: Rudder

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, George Square
31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

A comedy dance show about balance.

When Mountains Meet

Heartfelt, feel-good, this is a highly enjoyable performance.

The Girls of Slender Means

The delightful wit with its dark undertow of Murial Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means is caught brilliantly in this adaptation by Gabriel Quigley, directed by Roxana Silbert.

James V: Katherine

A brilliant gem, witty, gallus (cheeky) James V: KATHERINE by Rona Munro (a Raw Material and Capital Theatres Production) pulls no punches.

On Before Carlos Acosta

For charisma, no other male dancer can beat Carlos Acosta, one of the greatest classical dancers of our times, still spell-binding at fifty.

Cinders!

Is Cinders a male or a female? Audiences won’t know until the curtain rises on a particular night.

Stephanie J. Block

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West End
Cadogan Hall
29th - 29th Oct 2023

Stephanie has established herself as one of the most relevant and versatile voices in contemporary musical theatre and has starred in many major musicals on Broadway including Into…

Mathew Bourne's Romeo + Juliet

Rape, homophobic bullying, knife crime and murder in a mental health/correctional institute, Mathew Bourne’s Romeo+Juliet is probably the most shocking and bold of his re-imaginin…

Stephanie Staples in Concert – Record Release Show

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Edinburgh Fringe
Charlotte Chapel
24th Aug 2023

Nashville-based international singer-songwriter Stephanie Staples has shared her passionate and contemplative music for over two decades, performing all over the world.

Micky Bartlett: Let Me Start from the Start

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic Nucleus
3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Northern Ireland’s comedy superstar brings the noise (and the LOLs) with his all-new show.

Ciaran Bartlett: Machine Gun of Filth

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot
2nd - 28th Aug 2023

Ciarán Bartlett is Belfast’s premier musical comedian, known for rapid fire caustic punchlines, filthy songs and mad stories.

Ballet Black: Pioneers

Pioneers: Ballet Black is an inspired pairing of dance pieces, both in terms of subject matter and in their exploratory choreography.

The Nutcracker

Usually The Nutcracker means it is the Christmas season but here we are in March.

Giselle

Giselle, the Gothic-Romantic iconic classical ballet of love, betrayal and forgiveness is one of the few ballets to have come down to us from the 19th century.

Rambert Peaky Blinders The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

Ballet Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: the Redemption of Thomas Shelby is male swagger, jaw-dropping, edge of your seat dance as pyrotechnics with all the cool of the TV gangster drama…

Not Talking by Mike Bartlett

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Brighton
New Venture Theatre
17th - 25th Feb 2023

Lucy and James have avoided the battle to talk about what has happened to them.

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, …

Scottish Ballet - The Snow Queen

Review
★★★★
Stephanie Green
Edinburgh
Multiple Venues
26th Nov, 2022

Magic, glitter, snowflake fairies, Jack Frosts, snow wolves and innocent love winning out, what more could you want? Circus acts, Romani travellers? A revival of its 2019 productio…

Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform Autumn 2022

Review
★★★
Stephanie Green
Edinburgh
The Studio
12th Nov, 2022

One of the excitements for an audience is to spot future stars.

Navy Blue

Navy Blue, the colour of workers’ overalls is an existential cry of protest, a dance/voice-over/visual performance choreographed by Oona Doherty and cast to Rachmaninov’s Piano…

Jungle Book reimagined

Breathtaking projections of animation by YeastCulture steal this show and a set which is largely conveyed by lighting.

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…

Coppélia

An electrifying production, Scottish Ballet’s Coppélia, reimagined with robots and a new story that only nods to the original, is not just for sci-fi fans but addresses the seri…

ROOM

Interminable, intellectually pretentious and self-indulgent, former circus performer James Thiérrée’s Room produced by his own Swiss Compagnie du Hanneton, is presented as phys…

Taiwan Season: See You

See You is must see.

End without Days

Cool with underlying passion and deceptively simple choreography by New Yorker/San Franciscan Stephen Pelton, End Without Days gets under your skin.

Bold Moves

Virtuostic, one dark, the other light bursting with irrepressible humour, this contrasting double bill Us choreographed by Zoë Ashe-Browne and Stroke Through the Tail by Marguerit…

Ice Age

Ice Age is a life-affirming show celebrating and bringing much-needed visibility to what disabled people can achieve as performers on stage despite being confined to a wheelchair.

Burn

Alan Cumming is a tour de force as ever.

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

Review
★★★★★
Stephanie Green
Edinburgh Fringe
Playfair Library, Old College / Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge
13th Aug, 2022

Riotous, hilarious, alternately bonkers and clever The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart written by David Greig and co-created with Wils Wilson, has it all: folk music, especially …

Taiwan Season: Light of Life

A magical, charming show of dance and acrobatics which will delight children and adults alike.

BOBBY WINNER

Taiwan Season: Tomato

Tomatoes erotic? Yes, erotic, silly, surreal, constantly surprising, Tomato, a physical theatre piece by dancer/choreographer Chou Kuan-Jou is brilliant.

The Scandal at Mayerling

Powerful psychodrama elevates Scottish Ballet’s The Scandal at Mayerling from what might have been mere melodrama, a skull and pistol its signature symbols, into an outstandingly…

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.

Cock by Mike Bartlett

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Brighton Fringe
New Venture Theatre
13th - 21st May 2022

Cock by Mike Bartlett directed by Richard Lindfield Boy meets girl but boy is already living with boy.

Cock by Mike Bartlett

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Brighton Fringe
New Venture Theatre
13th - 21st May 2022

Cock by Mike Bartlett directed by Richard Lindfield Boy meets girl but boy is already living with boy.

NDT2: The Big Crying, Simple Things, Impasse

The convulsive pain of grief, a languorous classical quartet and an exuberant party piece undercut with darkness; these three pieces superbly contrast each other in mood and style,…

The Great Gatsby

Review
★★★★
Stephanie Green
UK Regional & Tours
Edinburgh Festival Theatre / Milton Keynes Theatre / New Theatre Cardiff
23rd Apr, 2022

Manic parties and manic dance, glorious swirls of colour, Chanel-inspired floating dresses and jazz from the Roaring Twenties, contrasted with the green light throbbing in the dist…

Kontakthof: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Disconcerting, both humourous and visceral, Kontakthof performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal continues to shock.

Carmen

Review
★★★★★
Stephanie Green
Scotland
EICC
20th Dec, 2021

A love triangle, passion, jealousy, the colour of red roses and bull-fighter capes: just what you would expect in this stunning contemporary dance version of Bizet’s Carmen, re-i…

Christmas Dinner

A heart-warming show of joy and magic at Christmas time, Catherine Wheels’ Christmas Dinner, written by Robert Alan Evans and directed by Gill Robertson, is particularly welcome …

Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker

Snow falling, Christmas baubles, glitz and magic - Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker to Tchaikovsky performed by the company’s live orchestra is like a box of chocolate treats.

Starstruck: Scottish Ballet

Glitz and glamour, fun and frolics, Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck is a delight, just what we need after 18 months of closed theatres.

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…

Starting From First Position

Mercurial, subtle and rousing Starting from First Position is a blend of dance and poetry performed by Nigerian born poet Ben Okri (also 1991 Booker prize winner for his novel, The…

BOBBY WINNER

Family Portrait

A charming, funny and touching interactive video installation, Family Portrait by Natasha Gilmore’s Barrowland Ballet features Natasha herself as mother and single parent and her…

Taiwan Season: Fighters

We need heroes in these strange times is the thesis of this show, and Les Petites Choses’ Fighters brings us five.

Iconnotations

Music-theatre with solo cello plus dance, Iconnotations is extraordinary: surreal, wry, expressionistic, at times baffling, profoundly sad but at the end joyous.

Taiwan Season: ai-sa-sa

Ai~sa~sa meaning ‘Get over yourself’ is brilliant.

Opia

How do we interpret the world through our senses, particularly through sight? A mesmerically beautiful triptych of two solos and one duet, choreographed by Finnish Johanna Nuutinen…

Taiwan Season: Touchdown

A man falls from the side of the screen onto the floor.

Taiwan Season: The Back of Beyond

Tai Gu Tales was created by Hsiu Wei Lin, formerly a principal dancer with the iconic Taiwanese Cloud Gate company.

Amina Khayyam Dance – Catch the Bird Who Won't Fly

Amina Khayyam’s Catch the Bird Who Won’t Fly, a Kathak dance piece using animation and green screen is beautiful, subtle and moving despite its grim subject matter: domestic vi…

Grin

Challenging, daring, with longeurs but also explosive moments, this makes for uncomfortable viewing but is a much-needed and to be applauded show.

Fugue in Two Colors

If Carl Knif’s Fugue in Two Voices is a joke, then it’s a dud.

The Secret Theatre

Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…

Antigone, Interrupted

Experimental, inventive and hugely daring, Antigone, Interrupted is Sophocles re-imagined, the first production by Joan Clevillé since becoming Artistic Director of Sc…

Scottish Ballet: The Snow Queen

A wintry tale of fire and ice where selfless love wins, The Snow Queen, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, is a dangerous journey encountering bandits and snow creatures.

An Edinburgh Christmas Carol

Full of good cheer, fun and jokes, carols under falling snow, spooky ghosts and glitter, what better way to get into the Christmas spirit than go to An Edinburgh Christmas Carol, D…

Juliet & Romeo

Both humourous and sad, Juliet and Romeo by Lost Dog company, presented by The Place, written with sensitive forensic analysis and directed by Ben Duke, is a subversion of Shakespe…

The Hospital

A brilliant Scandi noir of the psyche, spoken in gibberish in a surreal world, Norwegian Jo Strømgren Kompani’s The Hospital, is gripping; moving from bizarre, black humour to d…

Looping: Scotland Overdub

Billed as part Brazilian street dance and part Scottish ceilidhe with everyone invited to share the dance floor and a whisky, this suggested a rather more joyful, carnivalesque exp…

Body Language by David Bolger and Christopher Ash

If you have ever wondered how contemporary dance choreography is created (as opposed to classical ballet) this fascinating show, CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Body Language directed …

The Chosen

How do we face dying if we know we have a terminal illness? And also how do we live in the face of death, imminent or not? Losing several friends in the same year, Kally Lloyd-Jo…

From the Top

A delight, witty but profound exploration of the power relationship between choreographer and dancers, From the Top, choreographed by Hong Kong-based Victor Fung, is a send-up of a…

Taiwan Season: Monster

Monster choreographed and performed by Yen-Cheng Liu of Dua Shin Te Production is a show about the monster within us but the trouble with alienation is that it alienates the audien…

BOBBY WINNER

Taiwan Season: Floating Flowers

Floating Flowers by B.

Another

Another is a quadruple selection of dance pieces by the fledgling company Ballet-works founded by a former soloist of Stuttgart Ballet, Robert Robertson and comprises both contempo…

Steve Reich Project

If this was billed as Music and took place in a concert hall, the MP4 Quartet’s perfomance of three pieces by Steve Reich, Pendulum Music, Different Trains and WC 9/11 would earn…

And the Birds Did Sing

Christine Devaney’s And the Birds Did Sing is a gentle, moving meditation on the loss of her father, expressed through story-telling and some expressive physical movement to an e…

Blizzard

Breath-taking, Blizzard produced by Flip Fabrique from Quebec, is so much more than a circus show.

Stephanie Laing: Quitter

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
1st - 25th Aug 2019

Writer for BBC.

Heroes

What a delight to hear the giggles and laughter, sometimes hysterical, of children, aged four and up in the audience throughout Heroes, a circus, acrobatics and aerial dance show a…

Micky Bartlett: Love It!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

Ireland’s star of BBC’s Blame Game, Monumental, the General Banter Podcast and fluffer for Netflix show Flinch.

She Persisted - [ENB]

A landmark for female empowerment, She Persisted is a trilogy by three female choreographers celebrating female icons.

Scottish Ballet Cinderella

Review
★★★★
Stephanie Green
Scotland
Multiple Venues
11th Dec, 2018

Stylish, elegant and magical, Scottish Ballet's Cinderella, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, at times takes one's breath away.

Wendy and Peter Pan

Rumbustious, fast, furious and funny, yet full of magic and fairy dust, Wendy and Peter Pan will delight all ages: an awfully big adventure and the perfect Christmas show.

Autobiography

Blinding with science comes to mind in Autobiography, choreographed by Wayne McGregor.

Love Cycle: Love Chapter 2

Love Chapter 2 by L-E-V, choreographed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, is a twin-piece to OCD Love, both part of the Edinburgh International Festival.

Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus, by the Philippe Saire company, didn't live up to its initial promise.

Love Cycle: OCD Love

A profoundly disturbing show, OCD Love (part one of Love Cycle) is produced by Israeli L-E-V dance company with original and technically difficult choreography by Sharon Eyal in c…

Tibetan Monks Sacred Dance

Tibetan Monks Sacred Dance is a special experience, not quite a religious rite and not quite a performance show as five Tibetan monks from the Tashi Lunpo Monastery in South India …

Taiwan Season: Bon 4 Bon

This exquisite, delightful show by Chang Dance Theatre riffs on the childhood memories of four boys growing up together and, surprisingly, mangoes.

Jungle

Jungle by the Bernese company Pink Mama under the direction of Slawek Bendraf and Dominik Krawiecki, purports to be about post-colonialism and in particular who survives but how do…

Giselle

This version of Giselle, re-imagined by Ballet Ireland in modern dress is bound to cause controversy between traditionalists and modernists.

It’s Not Over Yet... and How to Survive the Future

It’s Not Over Yet… choreographed and performed by Emma Jayne Park (aka Cultured Mongrel) is a heart-stopping autobiographical show about cancer.

This Is the Title

A dazzling white floor space sets off Nigerian/Finnish Ima Iduozee’s black skin and his grey and black outfit perfectly in This Is The Title, a production in association with Fro…

Taiwan Season: Varhung – Heart to Heart

Varhung- Heart to Heart will touch your heart.

Stephanie Laing: Quitter

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Edinburgh Fringe
Nightcap
3rd - 27th Aug 2018

Fresh from a sell-out run in Australia, Stephanie brings you a fresh hour of comedy about being a massive quitter.

WRoNGHEADED

WRoNGHEADED is a collaborative dance, poetry and film piece produced by Liz Roche Company about the devastating effects of a repressive society in Ireland, particularly on women.

The Spinners

The Spinners is a collaboration between Lina Limosani of Limosani Projekts as choreographer and Al Seed as director.

Single Life

Every now and then a sparkling gem comes bubbling to the surface of the Fringe.

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.

Micky Bartlett: Crucifying Fergal

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot
1st - 26th Aug 2018

Micky never got into trouble at school until one fateful day in 2002, and then he f*cking nailed it.

Taiwan Season: Once Upon a Daydream

Once Upon a Daydream, produced by Sun Son Theatre, bursts with life and colour.

Stephanie Laing: Mad About the Boy

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Adelaide Fringe
The Producers
9th - 18th Mar 2018

Making her Australian debut: Stephanie’s love life has been a rollercoaster, if rollercoasters involve a lot of awkward sex, self-sabotage and therapy.

To Be Me

To Be Me pairs a recording of Kate Tempest’s poetry and live dance choreographed by Julie Cunningham; it’s a risky undertaking which is both fascinating but, at times, teeters …

Lear

It is brave to reimagine Shakespeare, in particular arguably his greatest tragedy but Lear by John Scott Dance is a deeply moving, subtle and superbly performed interpretation of …

Here Comes Trouble

Keira Martin’s Here Comes Trouble contains some impressively executed Irish dancing to music which is a meld of Irish melodies and Jamaican beats in a memorable piece about ident…

Profundis

Profundis choreographed by Israeli-born Roy Assaf, is amusingly and slickly performed by the National Dance Company Wales but is more of a ‘five-finger exercise’ for dance stud…

Folk

Folk is Caroline Finn’s first piece for the Cardiff-based National Dance Company Wales since becoming its Artistic Director two years ago.

Mind-Goblin

Review
★
Stephanie Green
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Base
20th Aug, 2017

Thisis a solo show where the Korean dancer and choreographer Lee Kyung-eun, inspired by the shamanic gut or rite to expel ‘goblins’ or evil spirits, aims to turn this around an…

Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus

A double-bill of extraordinary power and originality, Hope Hunt & The Ascension into Lazarus performed by Belfast-based Oona Doherty, gets beneath the hard exterior of disaffected …

Dollhouse

This is a curate’s egg of a show.

Majuli

Majuli is a gentle piece, beguiling in its simplicity in which the dancer and choreographer, Shilpikda Bordoloi evokes the world’s largest river island, Majuli in Assam’s…

Green Knight

A one-woman dramatic monologue performed with great storytelling skills, Green Knight is an enthralling show.

Taiwan Season: Together Alone

An exquisite piece, Together Alone, danced nude by Zoltán Vakulya and Chen-Wei Lee of Art B&B, is a profound meditation on relationships through a sensitive exploration of the bod…

Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here

Three male dancers perform Company Chordelia & Solar Bear’s Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here choreographed by Kally Lloyd-Jones and cast.

Fall Out

Founded by Avalon Rathgeb, Fall Out is tap-dancing like you’ve never seen before.

Leviathan

Leviathan, inspired by Melville’s Moby Dick is choreographed by James Wilton to a pounding score by Lunatic Soul.

After 4 – Over the Moon

In Korea when somebody dies, people say they have gone ‘over the moon’ or ‘crossed the river’.

Un Poyo Rojo

If you want a bit of light relief from Fringe shows taking themselves too seriously, come to this hilarious, technically mind-blowing piece which calls itself physical theatre but …

The Humours of Bandon

This show is a delight.

Taiwan Season: 038

038 is the telephone code for Hualien, a small city on the east coast of Taiwan and it is the first few numbers the many emigrants to the bigger cities must dial to phone home.

Stephanie Laing: Mad About the Boy

Review
★★
Daisy McConnel
Edinburgh Fringe
Nightcap
16th Aug, 2017

Fellacio, faecal ‘docking’ and physical abuse.

Kokdu: The Soul Mate

Kokdu: Soul Mate is physical theatre with charm, humour and a supernatural frisson inspired by Korean shamanistic rites and belief in the Kokdu, a spirit guide who accompanies the …

Last Clown on Earth

Derevo are a legend.

Taiwan Season: Heart of Darkness

A psychic journey, through physical theatre and music, Sun Son Theatre’s Heart of Darkness explores the damage inflicted on a woman by arranged marriage.

Taiwan Season: The Backyard Story

The Backyard Story, directed by Chen-Chieh Sun with lively music composed by Chien-Hsun Chen, is a charming black-light theatre show for children aged 5+.

Micky Bartlett: Typical

Belfast comic Micky Bartlett is here to deliver a message.

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.

Micky Bartlett: Blissfully Ignorant

Micky Bartlett: Blissfully Ignorant is fast-paced and ill-mannered comedy which successfully integrates an abundance of crudity into an intelligent set.

Stephanie Laing: Nincompoop

Stephanie Laing is Chesney Hawkes’ number one fan.

Jamie Bartlett: The Dark Net

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Assembly Rooms
8th Aug 2015

Bartlett talks about his experience immersed in the internet’s most shocking and unexplored subcultures, from buying cannabis on the Amazon of drugs to hanging with Bitcoin anarchi…

Stephanie Laing: Nincompoop

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Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
7th - 30th Aug 2015

It has come to Stephanie’s attention that she is a very silly young woman.

Micky Bartlett: Narcissilly

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
7th - 29th Aug 2015

Micky Bartlett is back at the Edinburgh Festival with his new show Narcissilly.

Micky Bartlett: Narcissilly

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Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
7th - 31st Aug 2015

Micky Bartlett is back at the Edinburgh Festival with his new show Narcissilly.

Micky Bartlett: Narcissilly

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
7th - 29th Aug 2015

Micky Bartlett is back at the Edinburgh Festival with his new show Narcissilly.

Paul Merton's Impro Chums

Paul Merton and his “Impro Chums”: Mike McShane, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster, have been practising short form improvised comedy for decades and bring their com…

Thinking Drinkers' Guide to the Legends of Liquor

Ben and Tom are the Thinking Drinkers, a pair of sharply tuxedoed bartenders intending to lead their audience’s through their search for history’s best drinkers.

Sam & Tom from TV!

Sam Nicoresti and Tom Burgess used to be on Nickelodeon until “the incident we can’t talk about”, happened.

Jim Higo and Miki Higgins - Never Mind The Pollocks

Jim Higo and Miki Higgins are, in one word, brave.

Mitch Benn - That Was The Future

You may not realise this, but we are in the future.

Al Murray – The Pub Landlord’s Saloon

Al Murray, one of UK comedy’s longest-standing character acts, is classed amongst the biggest names at the inaugural Great Yorkshire Fringe.

Stephanie Blythe

Just off a powerhouse run as the bearded Baba the Turk in “The Rake’s Progress” at the Metropolitan Opera, this magisterial mezzo-soprano and the pianist Warren J…

A Concert for VE Day: Martin James Bartlett Plays Mozart

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Brighton Fringe
Royal Pavilion
8th May 2015

BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014 pianist Martin James Bartlett plays Mozart Concerto No.

Contractions by Mike Bartlett

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Brighton Fringe
The Lantern @ ACT
3rd - 22nd May 2015

What kind of society are we now living in? The Apprentice may be the ‘job interview from hell’ but the polite sadism of the nameless female functionary in ‘Contractions’ gives us t…

Stephanie Laing: Nincompoop

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Edinburgh Fringe
Globe Bar
2nd - 24th Aug 2014

Lovable little weirdo Stephanie Laing realises that she is a very silly young woman.

Micky Bartlett: I'm Not Even Sorry

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Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
1st - 25th Aug 2014

Ireland’s brightest new comedy star from BBC’s Monumental makes his solo Fringe debut.

Stephanie Laing: Nincompoop

The first night of Stephanie Laing’s Nincompoop showed potential and given time this comedy show could be seriously funny.

Lapin Wants Breakfast

Lapin Wants Breakfast is the bilingual story of a hungry rabbit desperate for his petit-dejeuner.

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.

iCroon

Richard Shelton may be known for his role as murderous Dr.

The Card

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2011

The Norfolk Youth Music Theatre present The Card, a musical charting the rise of cheeky northerner Denry Machin from washerwoman’s son to Mayor of his town.

Within Range

Isobel Cohen’s latest production, Within Range, is set in November 1989 at the fall of the Berlin Wall.

DeAnne Smith: Livin' The Sweet Life

When DeAnne Smith entered the stage dressed in an adorable ensemble, picks up her ukulele and started singing a tune that sounded like it had been lifted from the soundtrack of 500…

The Funeral of Conor O'Toole

Conor O’Toole, with a tremendous amount of forethought, has already made plans for his funeral, from the service to the sandwiches.

Fred Cooke: Comfort in Chaos

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
2nd Sep, 2011

Comfort in Chaos is unsure of itself, just as Cooke seems to be unsure of himself.

Influence

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Four students fresh out of sixth-form take inspiration from Philip Larkin’s famous poem ‘ This Be the Verse’ (They f**k you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but t…

John Hastings: UnRelentless

John Hastings’ Edinburgh preview is nowhere near as unrelenting as the title suggests at first glance.

Dave Gibson and Charlie Talbot - Battle of Britain: North vs South

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

The premise of Battle of Britain is very simple and one that has been done to death: which is the better half of Britain, the North or the South? For the purpose of this exercise w…

Jack Barry and Patrick Turpin: Your New Mild Friends

This pair of independent comedians is sure to evoke a titter from even the stoniest of critics.

Nathan Caton - Breakfast at Stephanie's

Review
★★★
Gordon Johnston
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2010

Tall, skinny and full of nervous energy, West Londoner Nathan Caton is here to entertain us with an hour of laughs.

Festive Season

Set over the duration of one Christmas Eve, Festive Season is an abstract exploration of familial responsibility and the loss of loved ones.

Vocal Associates presents: Faybulous!

The Vocal Associates bring distinguished composer Tony Makarome’s musical adaptation of Aesop’s fables to this year’s Fringe.

Evelyn Evelyn

Evelyn Evelyn are two musically talented yet utterly quirky conjoined twins hailing from Walla Walla, Washington.

Alpine Horn with Flange Krammer - Free

Comedian Neil Dagley is Flange Krammer; German Olympic skiing sensation and interminable ladies’ man.

Wet Paint: A Magic Show - Free

Wet Paint is made up of two magicians, Ben Hart and Neil Kelso, with ‘ideas so fresh they’re still wet’.

Hannah Gadsby - Mary. Contrary.

In this show, Hannah Gadsby takes us through an art history lecture covering the developing representation of the Virgin Mary in Eastern and Western art since the 3rd Century AD.

Sweet Charity

Review
★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

Northern Theatre Company take the classic musical Sweet Charity and transpose it into the gay scene of modern day New York with an almost entirely male cast.

Swimming With My Mother

Swimming With My Mother features a real mother and son, Madge and David Bolger, exploring their relationship and mutual love for swimming and dancing through a 40-minute show accom…

Gráinne Maguire: Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun?

Comic and self-confessed ‘try-too-hard’ Gráinne Maguire visits Edinburgh this year with her latest show Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better…

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…

Petrol Jesus Nightmare No.5 (In the Time of the Messiah)

Henry Adam’s Petrol Jesus Nightmare is set in a military hideout against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Musical - Free

Review
★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

The title of this particular show may lead you to expect certain things that the final product fails to deliver in every way.

Graham Rex

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

As always, there are a multitude of comedy sketch shows at this year’s Fringe.

Mr Darwin's Tree

Mr.

Three of Hearts

A mother, lover and cuckolded spouse describe their relationships with an unnamed victim that links them together through rounds of rhyming soliloquy.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

This is the European debut of Anthony J.

Nick Sun: Potty Time!

Nick Sun’s latest show, Potty Time!, is truly bizarre.

The Smoking Boy

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Written by (and starring) Jenn Robbins, The Smoking Boy is the story of an upper middle class family from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1917 amidst America’s entry into the Great Wa…

The I Hate Children Children's Show

The I Hate Children Children’s Show is back for another Fringe and this year, they’re meaner than ever.

Hanks and Conran - Pigs in Blankets

Review
★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

It is surprising to see Hanks and Conran screw up the duo dynamic entirely.

The Ugly Duckling

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2011

C Theatre perform Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved children’s story about the tough life of a little misfit cygnet trying to fit in in a world which only judges him on his oute…

Thinking of you - Free

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

Knot Theory presents a new piece of writing about the decline of a suburban family in a piece of new writing by Niki Orfanou.

Odd Man Out

Review
★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2011

Peter Tate writes, directs and stars in this cacophony of self-indulgence.

Stephen Carlin: Pandas vs Penguins

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

In this show comedian Stephen Carlin claims he can split the entirety of the human race into two separate camps: pandas and penguins.

If Walls Could Talk

The premise of If Walls Could Talk is deceptively simple.

Edward Reid: Living the Dream One Song at a Time

Like a Glaswegian Louie Spence, Edward Reid bounds through an hour of anecdotes and musical numbers with enough campness and glitter to make you think you’ve accidentally stumble…

The Pretender

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2011

A man is preparing for his wedding day and thanks the audience for responding to his ad looking for wedding guests.

Feature
James T. Harding
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2014

Stephanie Dale is a playwright with work produced by BBC Radio 4 and Birmingham REP among others.

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