Edinburgh Fringe
The biggest arts festival in the world.
Palace of the End is a play about Iraq. It is a set of monologues involving three characters who have been…
It pays to read EdinburghGuide reviews. Had I looked at those of previous Young Pleasance shows I could have…
The last time I saw an audience as glamorous as the one at High Tease, was at a Bryan Ferry concert. Say no…
Nikolai Gogol's radical short story The Overcoat was first published in 1842 and tells the story of Akakii…
It must be a pain doing a show at 11pm. Surely, once you were done, you would just go out til 5am, sleep all…
Having reviewed and interviewed the Idiots of Ants boys at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I was…
When a play has the Masterson seal, it very rarely disappoints. After surviving nineteen
years on the Fringe…
This promised well, with an on-stage combo, backing group and what certainly looked on paper great lyrics.…
After a string of award winning stage plays (After the End, Osama the Hero, and Love and Money) as well as a…
If this show was a newspaper then it's definitely a tabloid and not a broadsheet. This is a show by…
In a Soho night club, in the early Eighties, a small but ruthless team of orange cretins hatch a rather lazy…
Words with A. L. Kennedy in the Assembly Rooms' Drawing Room? Who could resist? Certainly not this reviewer,…
The star lit room with a dark glitter ball spinning creates a decadent atmosphere in the already glamorous…
Three theatrical trunks of a certain age dominate the space, from behind which Sian Williams emerges in quasi…
I never really thought that much of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It had a few "eerie" moments in it, but…
To say that I felt a little out of place ten minutes into Birthing The Crone would be a huge understatement.…
Machismo. Men all over the world strut around with it, so why can't women have it too? This is Lyons' main…
Following sell out success, rave reviews and Most Promising New Musical and Best Lyrics at the Musical…
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), the avant-garde American writer was inspired by European culture and from 1903…
The ad hoc environment of the Fringe has always been a loaded forum for shows to react to global events, and…