Edinburgh Fringe
The biggest arts festival in the world.
Celebrating their 125th Anniversary this year, the Cambridge Footlights (old home of Rowan Atkinson) proved…
Before I begin, let me confess something - ever since someone brought me back a set of castanets from a…
There are times, as a reviewer, when I find myself making a mental note to check afterwards how much the…
This is the second visit to Edinburgh for Lynn Manning’s engrossing one-man show, which tells the story of…
Visitors to this website of more than a couple of years’ vintage will remember that we used to have a scoring…
The Battle of Pots and Pans is based on a battle that took place in l745 in the southeastern Scottish town of…
A new company, Dragonfly, bring to the Fringe a tender-hearted, if rather predictable, story about family…
There are surely times, especially these
days, when "care assistants" and even nursing staff wonder where…
It could be anyone's living room. Less tidy,
with a layer of dust, it could be this reviewer's. In a theatre…
Maria Tarnowska's case attracted
considerable public attention even among the crowded events of 1913.
In her third show at the Fringe, and her fourth year as a comedienne, Maeve Higgins claims that she "doesn't…
With a sell-out show, the heat was on, literally, as Jimeoin managed to skate his way to a hundred laughs or…
From the first enormous strike of the huge red drum, everyone knew that they were in for a unique treat.
"There's an awful lot of tech on that set."
First impressions set up expectations which may or may not be…
Historians will tell you what we know of
the past comes largely from lucky finds; Cameron Stewart's re-…
I know it’s unworthy, but the first thing I thought when I
walked into the Traverse 2 to see this 100-minute-…
Not much of a joker, was he, that George Orwell?
Let’s start with a confession and a promise. The confession
is that, before this, I had never seen anything…
Crossing the River Jordan focuses on three stories involving Palestinian confrontation with Israeli guards at…
Having never really thought much of McIntyre on BBC’s Mock
the Week, I was surprised at how enjoyable his…