EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: THE FROGS, Theatre Bath Bus
by Amy Hanson - August 10, 2018
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.
by Amy Hanson - August 10, 2018
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: SONG OF LUNCH, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2018
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. Set in a Soho Italian restaurant, Costa Award winner Christopher Reid's verse comedy is exquisitely intertwined with glorious animations by Charles Peattie (Alex cartoon, Daily Telegraph) in this bittersweet tragi-comedy of love, loss and Chianti.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2018
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. Set in a Soho Italian restaurant, Costa Award winner Christopher Reid's verse comedy is exquisitely intertwined with glorious animations by Charles Peattie (Alex cartoon, Daily Telegraph) in this bittersweet tragi-comedy of love, loss and Chianti.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TOAST, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018
Nigel Slater's Toast is a new play based on his award-winning autobiography. Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel Slater's childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle and waging war over cakes through to the playground politics of sweets and the rigid rules of restaurant dining, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and... toast.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018
Nigel Slater's Toast is a new play based on his award-winning autobiography. Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel Slater's childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle and waging war over cakes through to the playground politics of sweets and the rigid rules of restaurant dining, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and... toast.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL, Pleasance Courtyard
by Matt Elliot - August 09, 2018
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical makes a return visit to the Edinburgh Festival for its 11th consecutive year. The premise is simple; create a brand new musical from scratch at every performance, the execution is not.
by Matt Elliot - August 09, 2018
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical makes a return visit to the Edinburgh Festival for its 11th consecutive year. The premise is simple; create a brand new musical from scratch at every performance, the execution is not.
BWW Review: ALEX EDELMAN: JUST FOR US, Pleasance Courtyard
by Matt Elliot - August 09, 2018
Alex Edelman won Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe and now returns with his third solo show, Alex Edelman: Just for Us. From the moment he comes out on stage you know you are in for a top class evening of comedy.
by Matt Elliot - August 09, 2018
Alex Edelman won Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe and now returns with his third solo show, Alex Edelman: Just for Us. From the moment he comes out on stage you know you are in for a top class evening of comedy.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANNA MORRIS: BOMBASTIC, Voodoo Rooms
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018
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.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018
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.
EDINBURGH 2018: Tom Lenk
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018
BWW caught up with Tom Lenk to chat about performing in Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018
BWW caught up with Tom Lenk to chat about performing in Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review, ANTIGONE NA H'EIREANN, Paradise in The Vault
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018
The ancient Greek tragedy Antigone is a hugely versatile piece, lending itself well to adaptations to situations far beyond its original Theban setting. In this new adaptation by James Beagon, the play is set in the near future, where Brexit has resulted in a hard border with Ireland and consequent return to sectarian violence. This is a setting that works well with the themes of rebellion, religion and family relationships of Sophocles' original text.
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018
The ancient Greek tragedy Antigone is a hugely versatile piece, lending itself well to adaptations to situations far beyond its original Theban setting. In this new adaptation by James Beagon, the play is set in the near future, where Brexit has resulted in a hard border with Ireland and consequent return to sectarian violence. This is a setting that works well with the themes of rebellion, religion and family relationships of Sophocles' original text.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review, CARD NINJA, Gilded Balloon Teviot
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018
All the way from New Zealand, Javier Jarquin has always wanted to be a ninja. With martial arts lessons proving disappointing and traditional weapons like nunchaku hard to master, Javier instead dedicated his time and effort to adapting playing cards into deadly shuriken. In this show, he attempts to pass through a series of trials that proves he has what it takes to be a true ninja.
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018
All the way from New Zealand, Javier Jarquin has always wanted to be a ninja. With martial arts lessons proving disappointing and traditional weapons like nunchaku hard to master, Javier instead dedicated his time and effort to adapting playing cards into deadly shuriken. In this show, he attempts to pass through a series of trials that proves he has what it takes to be a true ninja.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: MINISTERS OF GRACE, TheSpace on the Mile
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018
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. REDuck Producktions have slapped Shakespearean language, costumes and setting on to the story of disgraced "philosophers" saving the public from the supernatural.
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018
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. REDuck Producktions have slapped Shakespearean language, costumes and setting on to the story of disgraced "philosophers" saving the public from the supernatural.
EDINBURGH 2018: Ian Stroughair and Eliza Jackson
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2018
BWW catches up with real-life besties Ian Stroughair and Eliza Jackson about the shows they've brought to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2018
BWW catches up with real-life besties Ian Stroughair and Eliza Jackson about the shows they've brought to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
CASANOVA DREAMING and VOLPONE Open Today at Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2018
In 2018 playwright-director Martin Foreman returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the fourth time, with two productions featuring famous Venetians - the real-life eighteenth-century libertine Casanova and the fictional trickster Volpone.
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2018
In 2018 playwright-director Martin Foreman returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the fourth time, with two productions featuring famous Venetians - the real-life eighteenth-century libertine Casanova and the fictional trickster Volpone.
BWW Review: MADAGASCAR THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2018
This smash hit musical features all of your favourite crack-a-lackin' friends as they escape from their home in New York's Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien's Madagascar.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2018
This smash hit musical features all of your favourite crack-a-lackin' friends as they escape from their home in New York's Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien's Madagascar.
Caitlin Tipping and Connor Burnett Will Star in THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2018
Caitlin Tipping and Connor Burnett will play Cathy and Jamie respectively in a new production of Jason Robert Brown's musical, The Last Five Years, running at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at PQA VENUES @Riddle's Court (venue 277) from 8 - 19 August at 14:00. The show, about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, is renowned for its unconventional structure - Cathy tells her story backwards while Jamie tells his one chronologically. The two characters meet once only, in the middle of the show.
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2018
Caitlin Tipping and Connor Burnett will play Cathy and Jamie respectively in a new production of Jason Robert Brown's musical, The Last Five Years, running at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at PQA VENUES @Riddle's Court (venue 277) from 8 - 19 August at 14:00. The show, about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, is renowned for its unconventional structure - Cathy tells her story backwards while Jamie tells his one chronologically. The two characters meet once only, in the middle of the show.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: CATHERINE BOHART: IMMACULATE, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she's got a hell of a lot to say about it. Debut show from a rising comedy star.
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she's got a hell of a lot to say about it. Debut show from a rising comedy star.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, Paradise @ Augustines
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Clark Gesner's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown first opened on Broadway in 1967, based on the Peanuts comic strip characters created by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown (Cameron Kirby), Snoopy (Ellie Campbell) and friends are brought to life in this revival by Bare Productions directed by Dominic Lewis.
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Clark Gesner's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown first opened on Broadway in 1967, based on the Peanuts comic strip characters created by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown (Cameron Kirby), Snoopy (Ellie Campbell) and friends are brought to life in this revival by Bare Productions directed by Dominic Lewis.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: MESS, Greenside
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Many have said to a loved one: 'If you need anything, give me a call, any time of day.'. But what happens when a friend actually takes you up on that offer in the middle of the night? MESS is a new musical that follows two best friends over the course of an evening as they counsel and confess to one another.
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Many have said to a loved one: 'If you need anything, give me a call, any time of day.'. But what happens when a friend actually takes you up on that offer in the middle of the night? MESS is a new musical that follows two best friends over the course of an evening as they counsel and confess to one another.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: ARMOUR: A HERSTORY OF THE SCOTTISH BARD, TheSpace
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard is a new musical written by Shonagh Murray and directed by Melanie Bell that addresses who Nancy and the other women featured in his poetry were and what might have happened if they had met after his death.
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard is a new musical written by Shonagh Murray and directed by Melanie Bell that addresses who Nancy and the other women featured in his poetry were and what might have happened if they had met after his death.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: JAY LAFFERTY: WHEESHT!, Gilded Balloon
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
"Wheesht" is a Scottish expansion of "Shh", often used within the phrase "Haud yer wheesht' when telling someone to shut up north of the border. Seasoned Scottish comedian Jay Lafferty returns to the Fringe after being rated one of the top reviewed comedians at the 2017 Fringe Festival.
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
"Wheesht" is a Scottish expansion of "Shh", often used within the phrase "Haud yer wheesht' when telling someone to shut up north of the border. Seasoned Scottish comedian Jay Lafferty returns to the Fringe after being rated one of the top reviewed comedians at the 2017 Fringe Festival.
Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: BRAINIAC LIVE!, Underbelly
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Can you run through plasterboard? How does an electric fence work? How good is your hearing? What is the best way to spin an office chair? All questions that may or may not have crossed your mind but are answered by the Brainiac team live on stage.
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018
Can you run through plasterboard? How does an electric fence work? How good is your hearing? What is the best way to spin an office chair? All questions that may or may not have crossed your mind but are answered by the Brainiac team live on stage.
EDINBURGH 2018:BWW Review: ASHLEY STORRIE: ADULTING, Counting House
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018
Scotland's favourite funny girl and viral internet sensation Ashley Storrie returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show about not growing up. With the world most likely ending quite soon, Ashley believes we should all have a laugh and be a bit more honest particularly about the myth of 'adulthood'... nobody really grows up, we're just great at pretending!
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018
Scotland's favourite funny girl and viral internet sensation Ashley Storrie returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show about not growing up. With the world most likely ending quite soon, Ashley believes we should all have a laugh and be a bit more honest particularly about the myth of 'adulthood'... nobody really grows up, we're just great at pretending!
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: (NO) MONEY IN THE BANK, Sweet Novotel
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018
Thom Bee is a wrestling fan who wants to share his passion for the art of the squared circle with Edinburgh audiences. He does this with the aid of comedy tag-team partner Balthazar Dark (Andrew Marsh), whose career failures have led him to something of an existential crisis.
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018
Thom Bee is a wrestling fan who wants to share his passion for the art of the squared circle with Edinburgh audiences. He does this with the aid of comedy tag-team partner Balthazar Dark (Andrew Marsh), whose career failures have led him to something of an existential crisis.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review, PASSIONATE MACHINE, Zoo Charteris
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018
We are all time travellers in our own way. After all, what else is a to-do list but a message from a past self? But what would happen if you started getting messages from a future version of you? That is the intriguing premise of Passionate Machine, a one-woman show written and performed by Dr Rosy Carrick.
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018
We are all time travellers in our own way. After all, what else is a to-do list but a message from a past self? But what would happen if you started getting messages from a future version of you? That is the intriguing premise of Passionate Machine, a one-woman show written and performed by Dr Rosy Carrick.
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: GARRY STARR PERFORMS EVERYTHING
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018
Theatre, we are informed at the outset of the show, is a dying art. A potentially controversial statement at the Fringe, but luckily for everyone, underappreciated actor Garry Starr is on a mission to save the art form. Over the course of sixty minutes, he will attempt to perform every single genre of theatre in order to inspire his audience to new-found appreciation and enthusiasm for everything from melodrama to maskwork.
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018
Theatre, we are informed at the outset of the show, is a dying art. A potentially controversial statement at the Fringe, but luckily for everyone, underappreciated actor Garry Starr is on a mission to save the art form. Over the course of sixty minutes, he will attempt to perform every single genre of theatre in order to inspire his audience to new-found appreciation and enthusiasm for everything from melodrama to maskwork.
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