Christopher York builds a rocket at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Tell me about your show, what it is all about? Build A Rocket follows Yasmin, a teenage badass, who unbeknownst to herself, is armed with an arsenal of powers – not flight, invisibility or anything like that, but resiliency and wit. We follow her over 18 years as she calls the proverbial moon shot; to […]
Dad’s Army Radio Hour comes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? David: Self-trained, got my real first experience of acting with Edinburgh’s Grassmarket Theatre Project 1990-1996 in a series of improvised dramas that all won Fringe First Awards. Then began to create my own work in 1996 with my first solo show Think […]
Bringing the Stage to the Screen
A long tradition exists of bringing stage musicals to the screen as films, but in recent years, the West End has found its way into cinemas in a different way. Thanks to advances in technology, stage productions can now be live streamed to cinemas across the country and even across the world, allowing tens of […]
Aaron Calvert shows people what is possible through hypnosis in DECLASSIFIED at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name: Aaron Calvert Name of Edinburgh show: Declassified Venue: Gilded Balloon at the Museum Performance time: 6:00pm Show length: 1 hour Ticket price: £8-12 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’m Aaron Calvert, I’m a mind reader and hypnotist from Manchester. I originally trained as a doctor but […]
Wrenne talks about saying yes to everything at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name: Wrenne Name of Edinburgh show: I Said Yes To Everything Venue: Assembly Studio 1 Performance time: 3:30 Show length: 1 Hour Ticket price: £11/£12 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’m originally from Utah, from a musical family and a musical theatre background. I came to the […]
I went to the fun home!
Ever since hearing the cast recording of the Broadway musical Fun Home, I have been eagerly anticipating it coming to London – and now it has! The show, which is playing to mostly sold out crowds at the Young Vic Theatre tells the story of a girl coming to terms with her fathers suicide and looking […]
Phoebe Katis talks about bringing Carole King and 007 to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name: Phoebe Katis Name of Edinburgh show: The Carole King Story & 007 Voices of Bond Venue: The Space Symposium Hall & Grand Theatre Performance time: 14:50pm & 18:35pm Show length: 50 mins Ticket price: £13 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I am a freelance musician and […]
Steen Raskopoulos talks about taking refuge in a convent in STAY at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? People get my name wrong most of the time. I usually prefer quite a neutral background, I once carried around a red curtain to hang up on stage. Tell me about your show, what it is all about? It’s about me as […]
Felicity Ward busts a nut at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I started many years ago as a dedicated attention seeker, then I was an unpaid actor (see: barista/dishpig) for years, then fell into sketch comedy and found myself on stage by myself doing stand-up ten years ago. And now I get to […]
David William Hughes brings renaissance, music and comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name: David William Hughes Name of Edinburgh show: Elizabethan Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall Performance time: 3-11 at 12:05pm, 13-25 at 1:05pm Show length: 50 mins Ticket price: £9 full / £7 concessions Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’m a musician and comedian who grew up in […]