REVIEW: Mark Simmons: Jokes At Noon @ The Liquid Room
Reading Time: 2 minutes“There is no great meaning to pull out from this tight hour - it’s just very funny.”
Category Edinburgh Festival Fringe
REVIEW: Pierre Novellie: OK, One More Then Bedtime @ Monkey Barrel 3
Reading Time: 2 minutesPierre Novellie’s sharp, incisive observations see him performing two distinct shows at this year’s Fringe: a best-of compilation, and Okay, One More Then Bedtime, which explores the wedding and Japanese honeymoon that bookended his packed tour schedule over the last year.
REVIEW: Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes @ Underbelly
Reading Time: 2 minutesAidan Greene’s big heart and warm laughter make him a firm favourite on YouTube’s The Try Channel, eating, drinking and playing games on-camera.
REVIEW: Good With Faces @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutes'This claustrophobic confrontation between a mother and social worker has a few too many twists to be believable but is most compelling when it forces the audience to sit with its moral ambiguity.'
REVIEW: Sitting (In Silence) @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesSitting (In Silence) opens with a spiritual gong, which reverberates around the beautiful old anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall.
REVIEW: After Party
Reading Time: 2 minutesMorna Young’s newest play about assisted dying dives headfirst into a sticky spider web of a topic but doesn’t get far with its surface-level characters. Vivienne Blackwood decides to die on the night of her 80th birthday…
REVIEW: Sauna Theatre: Aufguss x Nils Frahm
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre at its best. For one, I’ve now had the immense privilege of seeing, within the span of just a few days, the work of several Aufguss masters in the Sauna Theatre at Summerhall Arts. As such,…
REVIEW: Casey Filips: What A Character
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniquely bizarre energy that challenges the audience and brings the laughs As soon as Casey Filips comes onto the stage we know we are in for something totally unique. We meet four characters throughout the show: a…
REVIEW: Steffen Haanes: The Master
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is indeed…Spooky The Master is a masterclass (no pun intended) in performance art and clowning. It follows a spooky vampire who needs to drink the blood of an audience member before the end of the hour.…
REVIEW: We Have A Dream
Reading Time: 2 minutesHilarious, Heartfelt, a Wonderful Story about Boys Learning to be Men Fast Snail Productions deliver We Have A Dream under the guise of four friends desperate to see Scotland play at the 2024 Euros. What we see,…