Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today / Scottee: ClassTuesday, 13 August 2019
Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand's New Town Theatre ★★★★★ Darren McGarvey (aka Loki the Scottish Rapper) won the Orwell Prize for political writing in 2018 for his book Poverty Safari, a startling,... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Phil Wang/ London Hughes/ Jack Gleadow/ Mr. ThingTuesday, 13 August 2019
Phil Wang Pleasance Courtyard ★★★Phil Wang used to perform as part of sketch group Daphne, and his new solo show's title, Philly Philly Wang Wang, hints at their sometime schoolboy humour. He starts the standup on the Edinburgh Fringe... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Joanne McNally/ The Crown Dual/ Maisie Adam/ James McNicholas/ Titania McGrathMonday, 12 August 2019
Joanne McNally Assembly George Square ★★★★The area Joanne McNally treads (actually stomps might be a better word, given her fantastically high-energy performance) in The Prosecco Express is not new – she’s 36 and wondering if she should... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Sea Sick / Vigil / When the Birds ComeSaturday, 10 August 2019
Sea Sick CanadaHub ★★★★ She’s not a performer, Alanna Mitchell tells us. She’s a writer and journalist. But what she’s discovered about climate change, and specifically about its effects on the world’s oceans, has... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe reviews 2019: On the Other Hand, We're Happy / Daughterhood / The Shark Is BrokenSaturday, 10 August 2019
On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Summerhall ****This affecting co-production between Paines Plough and Theatr Clywd of Daf James’s play takes a sideways look at adoption.Twentysomethings Abbi (Charlotte Bate) and Josh (Toyin Omari-Kinch) have been... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Clive Anderson / GoodbearFriday, 09 August 2019
Clive Anderson Assembly George Square ****Clive Anderson has obeyed the Fringe comedy gods and given his debut solo show a title and a theme. Actually, Me, Macbeth & I is mostly just him talking very amusingly for an hour about his days in the... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Deer Woman / Pathetic Fallacy / Blind DateFriday, 09 August 2019
Deer Woman CanadaHub ★★★ You can feel the fury emanating from the stage in Tara Beagan’s incendiary solo play. Fury at the thousands of Indigenous Canadian women and girls who have gone missing in recent decades, abducted... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 review: BirthFriday, 09 August 2019
Physical theatre company Theatre Re are virtually Fringe royalty these days, with a several-year history of fine shows under their belts, plus success internationally and at the London Mime Festival. And judging by their assured and richly resonant... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Nick Helm/ Just These Please/ Anna DrezenThursday, 08 August 2019
Nick Helm Pleasance Dome ****What a pleasure it is that Nick Helm has returned to the Fringe after six years away after appearing in television comedies Uncle and The Reluctant Landlord.That’s the straightforward reason he has been a stranger... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 review: Crocodile FeverThursday, 08 August 2019
Chekhov famously pronounced that if you’re going to bring a gun on stage, you’ve got to use it. Is the same true for a chainsaw? To discover the answer, just head along to Meghan Tyler’s wild, over-the-top, gruesome Crocodile Fever at the... Read more... |
Edinburgh International Festival 2019 review: La repriseWednesday, 07 August 2019
Who’d have thought a play about a homophobic hate crime could be so much fun? Well, maybe that’s overstating things a little. But there are certainly lighter moments in La reprise, provocative Swiss-born director Milo Rau’s production with his... Read more... |
Edinburgh Festival 2019 review: Rich Kids - A History of Shopping Malls in TehranTuesday, 06 August 2019
You can’t question Javaad Alipoor’s ambition. Ancient Mesopotamian empires, geological layers of chicken bones, the half-life of polysterene cups, Thomas Gainsborough, Susan Sontag, Iranian political history, gold iPhones, mallwave – all that and... Read more... |
