REVIEW: SOOZ KEMPNER: MEGA DRIVE (Globe Bar) ★★★★★
Sooz Kempner is a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is always on my must-see list each year. This year she returns with her show Megadrive at the Globe Bar, every day at 1pm as part of the Free Fringe; it does not disappoint! Sooz lands here in Edinburgh supercharged with popularity after recently […]
REVIEW: AN EVENING WITHOUT KATE BUSH (Voodoo Rooms) ★★★★★
Singer/songwriter Kate Bush was the first woman in history to have a self-penned number one single in 1978 with ‘Wuthering Heights’. Since then she has gone on to release twenty-five top forty singles across five decades. Running Up That Hill, Baboushka, The Man With The Child In His Eyes and Don’t Give Up (a duet […]
REVIEW: FOR ALL I CARE (Summerhall) ★★★★
Alan Harris’s play For All I Care comes to Summerhall as part of the ‘This is Wales Edinburgh Showcase’. Written for the NHS70 celebrations, it explores the care system from the points of view of two women; Nyri, a mental health nurse, and Clara, one of her patients. Nyri is managing her uncommunicative teenage son, […]
REVIEW: HENRY BOX BROWN (Gilded Balloon) ★★★★
Henry Box Brown tells the story of a slave from Virginia who was put in a box and posted to his freedom in Philadelphia in 1849. Henry survived to tell his tale, write his autobiography and became an anti-slavery campaigner. His story is told with a mix of Gospel, R&B and spirituals by a cast […]
REVIEW: TINA T’URNER TEA LADY AND FREAKS! (Frankenstein Pub) ★★★★
West End Wilma award nominated comedian Tracey Collins has hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year with her new show Tina T’urner Tea Lady and Freaks! Already an established character act as Tina T’urner Tea Lady (a homage to a Tina Turner obsessed fan who runs a tea shop), Tracey Collins now brings three new […]
REVIEW: WEST END PRODUCER – FREE WILLY (Assembly George Square) ★★★
Amongst the 3,000 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, masked West End theatre and Twitter phenomenon ‘West End Producer’ makes his performance debut with his show ‘Free Willy The Musical’. The anonymous man of theatreland (or ‘WEP’ as he is known), first became known for writing about theatre and then for running two […]
REVIEW: FRISKY AND MANNISH’S POPLAB (Assembly George Square Gardens) ★★★★★
I first fell in love with Frisky and Mannish seven years ago and they were one of the first acts I ever reviewed on this blog. Back then I said “if you don’t fall in love with Frisky and Mannish, then you can’t have much of a sense of humour” and I stand by that […]
REVIEW: FLO & JOAN: BEFORE THE SCREAMING STARTS (Assembly George Square Gardens) ★★★★★
Musical comedy stars Flo & Joan hit the big time in late 2016 with their virtual YouTube video ‘The 2016 Song” in which they poked fun at all the things that had happened in the news that year. In 2018, Flo & Joan graced our screens in a TV advert for Nationwide Building Society, with […]
REVIEW: Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends (Assembly Rooms) ★
Friendsical (a musical based on the 90s sitcom Friends) is the latest nostalgic trip-down-memory-lane show, which is currently so on trend in the world right now. Assuming everyone is familiar with the TV show, the premise for the show is that Ross wants to put on a musical spectacular to celebrate the story of the […]
REVIEW: MISFIT WARRIOR (The Space) ★★★★
Electrifying synths, beats and casual choreography generate Stuart Saint’s resplendent testimonial gig, where Misfit and Warrior collide. His autobiographical story of HIV and Cancer manifest a domino effect of destruction, leaving survivor-in-crisis Stuart rescuing his mortality. On world Aids Day 2017, Stuart Saint posted a video declaring his HIV positive status, which quickly went viral. […]