REVIEW: An Hour With Ify Nwadiwe
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you have never interacted with Nwadiwe’s content before, what an iconic baptism by fire.
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REVIEW: Crying at My Podiatrist
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat makes the piece so compelling is Atkin's ability to find humour in the darkest and most uncomfortable places
REVIEW: Firebrand
Reading Time: 2 minutesJulie d’Aubigny is one of the most scandalous and fascinating characters throughout French history. So it’s only fitting that she gets her theatrical due, presented here as an Act 1 workshop. Written by Merrilea Ettia and Robbie Hébert, this is clearly an ambitious project, and one which requires an abundance of imagination to fill in the gaps.
REVIEW: Mamma Mia!
Reading Time: 3 minutesMamma Mia! at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow is the kind of show that reminds you exactly why musical theatre is so special. It is joyful, energetic and completely unapologetic about having a good time. From the moment the first ABBA song begins, the atmosphere in the theatre changes, and by the end, there was very little chance of anyone leaving without a smile on their face.
REVIEW: Heist: How To Steal A Masterpiece @ Speakeasy at PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesChris Cook brings his new magic show, Heist: How to Steal A Masterpiece to the fringe this year. He frames it as a show he is still figuring out, but it seems anything but that. It is a slick and well put together hour of trickery that keeps you on your toes.
REVIEW: Garrett Millerick: We Tried It Your Way @ Pleasance Courtyard
Reading Time: 2 minutesGarrett Millerick's new show is fairly high concept. It explores the use of AI in comedy and how this can be used to lie to an audience, while terrifying us with the use of it live.
REVIEW: CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation @ Underbelly, Bristo Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesCrime Scene Improvisation returns for its 10th year at the Fringe. This group of performers show their experience, with clever, quickly thought out plots and characters that provide plenty of laughs.
REVIEW: Pecking Order @ Big Belly, Underbelly Cowgate
Reading Time: 2 minutesPecking Order is a one-of-a-kind show, something found only at the Fringe. It describes itself as absurdist, which still fails to prepare an audience for the sheer bizarre nature of the show — in the best way imaginable. Five men — or are they one man? — wearing a bowler hat circulate the setting of a waiting room, which also serves as an interrogation chamber, a surgical suite, a care home, and a dozen other places. Each of them are out of place and out of the scene presented. As the play progresses, they begin to remember fragments of their previous encounters, but to no avail.
REVIEW: unexplained: Live @ TheSpace
Reading Time: 2 minutesRichard MacLean Smith brings his podcast Unexplained to the Edinburgh Fringe in a live demonstration of his considerable storytelling prowess. Turning his attention to the enduring mystery of the Flannan Isles, Smith meticulously revisits the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers whose fate has perplexed generations. When the men vanished one night in December 1900, they left behind little evidence and an abundance of questions. Was it a rogue wave? An accident? Foul play? Something altogether stranger? More than a century later, we may never know.
REVIEW: Between Strands @ Laughing Horse, Counting House
Reading Time: 2 minutesBetween Strands starts with a striking question: Have you ever thought about what your hair holds? Performance company Pebble Theatre certainly has. Aiming, much like a pebble, to show how ordinary objects or things can create ripples through the world, Pebble Theatre’s Between Strands explores one woman’s attempt to deal with the death of her grandmother in Taiwan whilst living in the UK. Drawing on East Asian traditions, Taiwanese rituals, and the universal experiences of grief and loss, Between Strands honours the dead through the living, both connected in this unique, beautiful piece.