REVIEW: Axis of Awesome: Won’t Ever Not Stop Giving Up (Gilded Balloon, Teviot) ★★★★★
Axis of Awesome are an Australian, rock trio, reminiscent of Jack Black and his band Tenacious D. They have been together for ten years and have released six albums of Musical comedy and jokes set to tunes. Like many people, I was only familiar with the name Axis Of Awesome because of their viral song 4 […]
REVIEW: All Aboard the Marriage Hearse (Gilded Balloon Teviot) ★★★★
All Aboard the Marriage Hearse, a play by Matt Morillo, receives its UK premiere at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play premiered in New York in 2008 and prompted a public debate between Morillo and a renowned marriage counsellor on the institution of marriage. This production sees Morillo return to the director’s chair and […]
REVIEW: SOOZ KEMPNER: A BIT OF A CHARACTER (Just The Tonic at The Caves) ★★★★★
Comedian Sooz Kempner returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the third year running after her critically acclaimed shows ‘Defying Gravity’ and ‘Character Activist’. This year she gives us not one but two separate shows, ‘Queen’ and a revised version of last years show ‘A Bit of a Character’. This show presents four very different people. In-between each one, we […]
REVIEW: LUKE KEMPNER: JUDI DENCH BROKE MY HEART (Pleasance Dome) ★★★★
You may know impressionist Luke Kempner from his successful viral video skit, parodying Downton Abbey, or perhaps from his subsequent TV show on BBC3! Luke has also trodden the boards starring in Les Mis, Avenue Q and South Pacific. Luke returns to Edinburgh Fringe with his new show Judi Dench Broke My Heart. This is […]
REVIEW: DAN SIMPSON: ARTIFICIAL INELOQUENCE (Banshee Labyrinth) ★★★★
Are you worried that your smartphone is taking over your life? Concerned that a computer could take your job? Troubled by all the data you share online and what happens to it? Spend an hour with Dan Simpson, stand-up and poet, as he takes on the machines. Presenting a techy show in a very un-techy […]
REVIEW: DOORS TO MANUAL (Just The Tonic at the Mash House) ★★★
Doors To Manual is part sketch comedy show, introducing us to characters on an aeroplane and part aviation fun fact lesson. Rhiannon Vivian plays six characters on board an aeroplane, plus herself. It is the scenes with herself that we learn about her life, her struggles with a fear of flying and how that fear […]
REVIEW: KATIE BRENNAN’S QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS ( Underbelly, George Square) ★★★★★
2016 has been a great year for Katie Brennan. She launched her Quarter-Life Crisis show as a two-hour cabaret at the AlleyCat Bar in London’s Soho. So popular was it that extra dates were added and it was subsequently picked up by the St James’ Theatre for a resoundingly successful three-show run. Katie, together with […]
REVIEW: PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON (Assembly George Square Theatre) ★★★★
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honnah Lee. His younger brother, Piff, however leads a slightly different lifestyle. A man sized dragon, on stage, performing magic tricks with his handy assistant Mr Piffles, the magic performing Chihuahua! I first saw Piff The Magic […]
REVIEW: SCOTT AGNEW I’VE SNAPPED MY BANJO STRING, LET’S JUST TALK (Gilded Balloon at the Counting House) ★★★
Following his 2012 hit Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Tales of the Sauna’, Glaswegian comedian Scott Agnew returns to the festival this year with his new show ‘I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk’ at the Gilded Balloon Counting House. Scott Agnew bares his soul in this show, with stories of his addictions to drink, drugs […]
Drayton Arms Theatre launch ‘Eddies’ to award the best of Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Furthering its aim to help new and emerging theatre companies to stage their work in a supportive and cost effective environment on the London Fringe scene, the Drayton Arms Theatre has launched the Drayton Arms Eddies – a new award for shows performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, with a top prize of a three-week London […]