EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: PICKLE JAR, Underbelly
It's hard keeping it together when your whole life is falling apart.
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EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WEIRD, Pleasance Courtyard
Yasmin feels different, she feels weird.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANGRY ALAN, Underbelly
'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: BOTTOM, Summerhall
Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a top or a bottom? Bottom is about bums, Beyonce and burnt fish fingers.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: REVELATIONS, Summerhall
My best friends, Sarah and Emma, asked me for my sperm.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANNIE, Rose Theatre
The chorus of young orphans are a talented young bunch, and paired with the brilliantly boozy Miss Hannigan (Hazel Beattie), they easily rival recent big-budget tours of the show.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: Gary Delaney: Gagster's Paradise, Pleasance Beyond
As one-liner comics go, you'd be hard pushed to find anyone as close to the top of their game as Gary Delaney.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: Kelty Clippie the Musical, Greenside at Nicolson Square
Juxtaposed against the classic folk melody, upbeat dance numbers feel out of place; perhaps some more traditional folk songs could have helped keep this bus on the right route.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: DON'T TELL ME NOT TO FLY, Underbelly McEwan Hall
Intertwining music with her stories of family, friends and showbiz, this really is a great mix of song and story.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: WAR WITH THE NEWTS, Summerhall
Adapted from Karel Capek's 1930s sci-fi satire, War With The Newts is set on an oyster trawler, en route to a colony of human survivors after the titular conflict.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: PRIVATE PEACEFUL, Underbelly Cow Barn
The ability to hold the attention of the audience in delivering a complex, multi-character script with one actor makes this piece a real treat for audiences.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: SQUARE GO, Roundabout @ Summerhall
Max is hiding in the school toilets.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: NOTFLIX, Gilded Balloon Teviot
There's a growing trend of films and TV shows being adapted for the stage.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: AH DINNAE KEN, TheSpace
Take Shakespeare's star-crossed epic, Romeo and Juliet, and set it in a not too distant future in Scotland when a second independence referendum has been called.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: CHEMO BARBIE, Gilded Balloon Teviot
It is not uncommon for cancer stories to be told by former patients in order to educate others to empathise with those going through treatment.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: THE WEDDING RECEPTION, The Principal
As the peal of wedding bells ring out across Edinburgh's Royal Mile, the sweet smell of success fills the air as Interactive Theatre International bring their riotous farce, The Wedding Reception, back to the Fringe for another year.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: THIRTEEN, Gilded Balloon
A fast- paced, hilarious coming of age musical by Tony award winning composer Jason Robert Brown with book by Dan Elish and Robert Horne.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: THE EGG IS A LONELY HUNTER, Summerhall
A monologue by Hannah Mamalis, The Egg Is A Lonely Hunter is a wry, absurd piece that finds humour in both the mundane and the extraordinary, from talking horses to being overly conscious of one's body.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: THE FROGS, Theatre Bath Bus
Adapted from the comedy of Aristophanes, The Frogs features the god Dionysus, aghast at the state of theatre, descending into the Underworld on a mission to bring back the greatest playwright of all time in a bid to save civilisation through the arts.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review, ANTIGONE NA H'EIREANN, Paradise in The Vault
The ancient Greek tragedy Antigone is a hugely versatile piece, lending itself well to adaptations to situations far beyond its original Theban setting.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review, CARD NINJA, Gilded Balloon Teviot
All the way from New Zealand, Javier Jarquin has always wanted to be a ninja.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: MINISTERS OF GRACE, TheSpace on the Mile
Here at the world's biggest arts festival, creatives and artists from all over the globe are tackling truly important questions, with surely none more crucial than what the result would be if Shakespeare had written seminal 80s classic Ghostbusters.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SONG OF LUNCH, Pleasance
Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Downton Abbey, Toast of London) and Rebecca Johnson (The Trip, The Flood) star in this hilarious and poignant drama of a disastrous attempt to rekindle lost love.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TOAST, Traverse Theatre
Nigel Slater's Toast is a new play based on his award-winning autobiography.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANNA MORRIS: BOMBASTIC, Voodoo Rooms
The award-winning character comedian and star of Channel 4's Lee and Dean celebrates four sell-out shows at the Voodoo Rooms with a mash-up of her favourite creations.
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Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years The Stand 1 (9/23-9/23) |
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Chris Grace: 88% Assembly George Square (8/05-8/31) |
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Sanctuary Pleasance Dome (Ace Dome) (8/05-8/31) |
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Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/30) |
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Parkies TheSpace @ Surgeons Hall (8/07-8/29) |
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Copycat Pleasance Dome (Jack Dome) (8/05-8/31) |
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This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border but never actually getting caught with any drugs) ZOO (Playground 3) (8/07-8/30) |
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Woodcutter Triplex Studio @theSpaceUK (Venue 38) (8/07-8/29) |
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Sapphire McIntosh: Squeaky Bum Time Unerbelly Bristo Square - Daisy Room (8/05-8/30) |