REVIEW: Black is the Color of My Voice
Reading Time: 2 minutesApphia Campbell beautifully pens a raw unpacking of her admiration to the life and trials of Nina Simone without getting too close to her likeness.
Category Edinburgh Festival Fringe
In Conversation with Anatomy for Accountants
Reading Time: 4 minutesSacha Copland of Java Dance Theatre presents
ANATOMY FOR ACCOUNTANTS
Summerhall - Anatomy
In Conversation with: Cathrine Frost
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn overnight smash-hit success in Norway with an ever-growing cult following and Finalist for the Hedda Award 2023 as Best Theatre Play, award-winning Det Andre Teatret brings their hilarious and existential theatre show Good Luck, Cathrine Frost! to the Festival Fringe 2024 to talk philosophy, birth, and public health.
FEATURE: TravFest launch
Reading Time: 3 minutesTraverse Theatre has announced its programme for TravFest24, it’s yearly festival of Fringe Theatre running in accordance with the Edinburgh Fringe, from Thursday 25th July to Sunday 25th August.
FEATURE: First shows revealed for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
Reading Time: 6 minutesToday, Thursday 22 February 2024, the first batch of shows that will be staged at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been revealed. All shows will be available to view on edfringe.com from 12:00 today. The 276 shows span…
PREVIEW: No Spray No Lay
Reading Time: 3 minutesNo Spray No Lay was created by friends Kat Dobell and Lara Dunning after a night out at the ballet, a few wines and a run in with a pervy DJ.
REVIEW: A Terrible Show for Terrible People
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Terrible Show is equal parts burlesque, pantomime and mime – a practically wordless array of absurd, blatantly sexual physical comedy.
REVIEW: Blood on the Clocktower: Live
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom the team that brought us Werewolf: Live. I was thrilled to see another 'social board game' live show. The concept: five of your favourite comedians playing the game observed. Boring you think? You'd be wrong. Blood on the Clocktower is a game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception.
REVIEW: How to Be Dumped: A Sort of Magic Show
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSam Lupton is all of us. Looking for a ways to deal with a break up of a relationship, through escape, feelings, blocking, dating and clearing out. Only Sam decided to write his story into an Edinburgh fringe show.
REVIEW: Pleading Stupidity
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInspired by an incredible true story dubbed ‘Dumb and Dumber Bandits’, this madcap caper is the perfect fringe evening. We meet Brad and Chad on their gap year when they decide to rob a bank on a whim. We then follow their journey from their escape, capture and sentencing to their release. With verbatim dialogue we also touch on the victims' experience of the process and recovery, giving the piece dramatic weight alongside the sheer stupidity.