EDINBURGH 2023: Review: OLLIE HORN: NOT MUCH, Just The Tonic at The Mash House
What’s the worst gig you’ve ever had? I bet that Ollie Horn has had one much, much worse than you.
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EDINBURGH 2023: REVIEW: JINGLE STREET, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose (Big Yin)
Some shows make you smile instinctively, and Jingle Street is one of them.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: THE LAST SHOW BEFORE WE DIE, Roundabout @Summerhall
With rolling around on the floor, confetti, a paddling pool, and a toothbrush, The Last Show Before We Die is one of the most bizarre shows of this year’s festival.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: BACON, Summerhall
In Sophie Swithinbank's award-winning Bacon, friendship and love are inextricable from danger, anger, and hurt.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: GUNTER at Summerhall
Gunter is an energetic, subtle, genuinely amusing, hard-hitting piece that ties the effects of violence and suspicion to the patriarchal structure and all its demands.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: HIGH STEAKS, Summerhall
It’s a visceral, truthful, moving performance.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: HEAVEN, Traverse
Jim Culleton directs Andrew Bennett and Janet Moran as they take turns to open up in conversational confessional style.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: WAITING FOR A TRAIN AT THE BUS STOP, Summerhall
The poet and director crafts a poignant exploration of manipulation, coercive control, and domestic violence, infusing it with poetic interludes that are the definite highlight of the project.
Review: THROWN, Traverse Theatre
Five wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit to compete in the obscure art of Backhold Wrestling.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: KEVIN QUANTUM: MOMENTUM, Assembly
Epic scale stunts and mind-blowing magic in a spectacle that swings from edge-of-your-seat astonishment to belly laughs.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: THE BLACK BLUES BROTHERS, Assembly
After thrilling the world, with more than 500,000 spectators and astonishing appearances at the Royal Variety Performance and Montecarlo Circus Festival, 'best circus show 2022' (TheatreWeekly.
Review: MADELEINE HAMILTON: PIPING HOT, Just The Tonic At The Caves - Just The Wee One
Madeleine Hamilton blows.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: BREAKING OPEN, The Space
Why would a woman leave her career as the lead singer of a multi-platinum band? Was it fate, family, or something else? When she hears a compelling voice within her closet, urging her to leave her marriage, Oskar must make a choice, stay and continue as is or take a bold step to find her voice and m
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: KIERAN HODGSON: BIG IN SCOTLAND, Pleasance Courtyard
With Big in Scotland Kieran Hodgson proves that he is not just one of the greatest comedians of his generation but one of the best to have ever performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: POTTY THE PLANT, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose - Doonstairs
Potty the Plant welcomes you to Little Boo Boo’s General Hospital, home to three haphazard nurses, a day-dreaming cleaner, a suspicious doctor - and a singing, dancing plant.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: OLGA KOCH: PRAWN COCKTAIL, Monkey Barrel Comedy (Monkey Barrel 1)
Olga Koch's latest show doesn't provide one of the smoothest hours at this years Fringe but does solidify Koch's place as one of the best on the comedy scene
Review: BONNIE & CLYDE, Original West End Cast Recording
The Original West End Cast Recording of Bonnie & Clyde is a tense, cinematic treat.
Review: HENRY VI, Bard in the Botanics
Henry IV has won the crown from Richard II but his country faces rebellion and his own health is failing.
Review: HEATHERS THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, Glasgow
Westerberg High’s Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day.
Review: THE GREAT REPLACEMENT, Oran Mor
Fi and and her daughter Lu have never seen eye to eye but Lu’s ovaries are Fi’s last remaining hope of a grandchild.
Review: BLOODBANK, Oran Mor
Priya and Caris have an arrangement, a somewhat risqué arrangement for a Tory MP and an NHS nurse to have.
Book Review: DRAMA GAMES FOR EXPLORING SHAKESPEARE, by Alanna Beeken
Must-have, dip-in, flick-through book to help make Shakespeare's plays fun for actors, students, directors and teachers
Review: THE STAMPING GROUND, King's Theatre, Glasgow
When together-forever couple Euan and Annie return home, they’re seeking a fresh start for their teenage daughter.
Review: MEET ME AT THE KNOB, Oran Mor, Glasgow
1920s Broomielaw in Glasgow was ruled by a little-remembered and little spoke about gang called the White Hats.
Review: STRICTLY BALLROOM, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Directed by Britain’s best loved TV Judge, Craig Revel Horwood, Strictly Ballroom: The Musical follows arrogant, rebellious young ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings (Kevin Clifton).
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