EDINBURGH 2023: Review: BREAK UP WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND, Pleasance Courtyard
Breakups are never fun… but they do lead to fun theatre.
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EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MATTY HUTSON: DON'T HOLD BACK, The Pleasance Courtyard
Hutson is musically multi-talented, a master of a myriad of instruments, including a digital sampler, a vocal transformer and various egg shakers and tambourines.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MAMOUN ELAGAB: WHY I LOVE WHITE PEOPLE, The Pleasance Courtyard
Mamoun Elagab is a geek-chic comedian, with a passion for slang-interpreting, whilst musing the implications of his identity and roots.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: THE COLLIE'S SHED, Gilded Balloon
Based in a Men's Shed in East Lothian, The Collie's Shed follows four retired miners as they discover how a review into the policing of the '80s mining strikes and a potential Miners' Pardon Bill by the Scottish Government suddenly affects them, their friendships and their relationships.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MARI CRAWFORD: BIPOLAR BADASS, Paradise In The Vault
The performance has a short run-time but it’s powerful, and something Crawford should be incredibly proud of.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: THE HUNGER, Assembly George Square Studios
The Hunger provides enough detail to shock and withholds just enough to let the audience’s imagination run to its worst conclusions.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHEVALIER: HOBBYHORSE CIRCUS
An irresistibly charming homage to the magnificent circus horses and the silent movie era.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: LUCY AND FRIENDS, Pleasance Courtyard
Watching Lucy and Friends is how I imagine a halluncinatory drug trip.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ... AND THIS IS MY FRIEND MR. LAUREL, Pleasance Courtyard
Over 100 years after Stan & Ollie were first paired on screen together, Jeffrey Holland celebrates the lives and laughs of two of Hollywood's funniest men.
EDINBURGH 2023: THE ROYAL EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO, Edinburgh Castle
This August, set against the spectacular backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, we will welcome local and international audiences to its new Show, Stories.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: POLKO, Summerhall
As teenagers, Emma, Joe and Polko thought they’d never grow apart.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: STUART MCPHERSON: LOVE THAT FOR ME, Monkey Barrel
Stuart McPherson uses his latest hour of stand up to hilariously explore self love and why his generation (and himself) find it so hard to love themselves.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TAMSYN KELLY: CRYING IN TK MAXX, Pleasance Courtyard
Tamsyn Kelly provides not only a solid hour of stand up but also the best show title of the Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: THE WAY WAY DEEP, Underbelly Cowgate
Fresh from the Soho transfer of his last show Colossal, Patrick McPherson is back at the Fringe with a new one man show.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: WE'LL HAVE NUN OF IT, Underbelly Cowgate
Derry Girls meets Spring Awakening in this absolute triumph of new musical theatre writing.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: HORATIO GOULD: SWEET PRINCE, Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker 3
What do “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus and the Taliban have in common? According to Horatio Gould, it's more than you might think.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MICHELLE BRASIER: REFORM, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Dining Room
Have you ever used Marketplace to buy something? Have you ever been scammed by someone on there? Have you ever befriended the man who has scammed you, changing the course of your life for the next year? Michelle Brasier has, and she’s ready to talk (and sing!) about it.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING . . . EARNEST?, Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Beyond
Have you ever been sitting in a theatre as an audience member, watching a show, thinking, “I could do better than that!” If you have, The Importance of Being .
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: GAIL PORTER: HUNG, DRAWN AND PORTERED, Assembly
Gail can laugh at her life now she's won a BAFTA for 'being mental' (Being Gail Porter, 2020).
Review: EDINBURGH 2023: REVIEW: ALAN TURING - A MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY
Early Morning Productions bring Alan Turing’s story to life in this piece written by Joan Greening with music by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: FREYA PARKER: IT AIN'T EASY BEING CHEEKY, Pleasance Courtyard
Freya Parker's latest show may get laughs but very rarely more than a chuckle.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: EIGG THE MUSICAL, Greenside
Situated in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, the Isle of Eigg has a fascinating history of sovereignty.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SAD, Summerhall
Exceptionally convivial and inclusive, the performances are relaxed and explained ahead by Brigitte herself.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TEMPORARILY YOURS, Underbelly Bristo Square
Italian performer Greta Zamparini takes extracts from Concita De Gregorio and creates a complex solo show about the commodification of the female body.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TOMORROW'S CHILD, Assembly Checkpoint
Innumerable sounds of all kinds create a 360-degree retro journey to the future.
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