REVIEW: JESS ROBINSON: IMPRESSIVE (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★★
When you think of female impressionists, two names come to mind. Broadway actress and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco and Jess Robinson. Jess is best known for playing the multi voiced character LV in the UK tour of Little Voice. In the show she impersonates a plethora of different voiced divas, from Judy Garland to Julie […]
REVIEW: EXACTLY LIKE YOU (Underbelly) ★★★★
Exactly Like You is a one woman show written and performed by actress and spoken word artist Lotte Rice and directed by Fringe First award winner Kirsty Patrick Ward. It’s a tale of a young woman’s experiences of life, work, love and loss told through clever wordplay and the songs of Nina Simone. Rice tells […]
REVIEW: LET’S TALK ABOUT TAX (Gilded Balloon) ★★★
Dominic Frisby has come to the Edinburgh Fringe to tell us about tax. He knows what he’s talking about as a MoneyWeek commentator, Bitcoin expert and writer for financial websites: “taxation is what holds society as we know it together, and yet there is a dearth of media on the subject”. Frisby has taken it […]
REVIEW: SOOZ KEMPNER – QUEEN (Underbelly) ★★★
I love Sooz Kempner. Her hilarious musings on Facebook brighten up my daily life and I can see us sitting in a pub together, laughing at all the bizarre things about life. Sooz the comedian returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with her five star sketch show A Bit Of A Character and also […]
REVIEW: TAMAR BROADBENT: GET UGLY (Espionage) ★★★★★
If Tamar Broadbent has noticed her YouTube hits spike dramatically over the past few weeks, then that will be have been me binge-watching the music video to her comedy song “The Tube Ride of Shame”. Tamar is a musical comedian who recently shared a bill with the excellent Four Femmes on the Thames at the […]
REVIEW: PANTI: HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES (Traverse Theatre) ★★★★
Panti Bliss is a well known head on the Irish gay scene. A national treasure you might say (and she does). She even has her own Cabaret bar in Dublin called the Pantibar. I went along expecting an hour of comedy and lip-synced songs but what I actually got was a very interesting look into […]
REVIEW: BRIEFS (Assembly Hall) ★★★
I love Briefs (they’re so comfortable) lol. I see it every time it is in London and even their children’s show Bratz: Kids Carnival (which is the polar opposite of their late night raunchy show) is brilliant. So seeing the show at this years Edinburgh Fringe was a no brainier. Described as an Aussie Cirque du […]
REVIEW: DEAL WITH THE DRAGON (C Venues) ★★★★
Deal With The Dragon is a one man show written and performed by Kevin Rolston. It comes to Edinburgh after being selected as Best of the San Francisco Fringe. The play is a modern take on the traditional ‘deal with the devil’ and follows what happens when Hunter, a talented and fragile artist, strikes up […]
REVIEW: IMPROMPTUNES – THE COMPLETLEY IMPROVISED MUSICAL (Underbelly Med Quad) ★★★
The Impromptunes are an Australian theatre troupe that combine improvisation with musical theatre. They debuted at Melbourne Fringe in 2013 and have since taken their production to Perth Fringe World, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe throughout 2014 and 2015. In 2016 they bring their one-hour show to Edinburgh Fringe. The format is simple […]
REVIEW: MARGARET THATCHER QUEEN OF GAME SHOWS (Assembly George Square Gardens) ★★★★★
Following the last year’s successful show of Maggie’s transition into an international cabaret star, the Iron Lady is back; this time to revive and conquer the world of Saturday night light entertainment and “take back Saturday nights like I took back the Falklands”. In Matt Tedford’s latest incarnation of Margaret Thatcher, the incumbent Conservative government […]