REVIEW: Bloody Knees @ The Space, Surgeon’s Hall
Reading Time: 2 minutesBloody Knees is wonderfully written, accurately capturing the bleak and blurry lifestyle of a ‘self confessed terminal layabout’.
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REVIEW: Simon Evans: Shadow Play @ Just The Tonic
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Evans’ cynical, acerbic deconstructions of modern culture have made him a fixture of both television and radio schedules for years
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: Tchaikovsky Child of Glass
Reading Time: 2 minutesA thorough and touching exploration of the famed Russian composer Even to modern-day audiences, the name Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has a newfound relevance, with his music dominating social media trends in consistent cycles. Audiences will also recognise…
REVIEW: I Think I’m Turning Japanese (I Really Think So, NOT!)
Reading Time: 2 minutesA work-in-progress tribute to Japan and romance Sam Joseph is an English up-and-coming comedian who has spent the past thirty years alternating between life in Britain and Japan. In his 50-minute set, which he says is a…
REVIEW: The Girls I Look Up To
Reading Time: 3 minutesWell acted and thoughtfully staged, though a little heavy-handed with its sincerity Four women, one birthday, three decades. Evelyn (Jess Dix) is turning something across childhood, adolescence and adulthood with every version of the party played out…
REVIEW: Milo Edwards: Catamaran @ Cabaret Voltaire
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt feels overdue to call Milo Edwards - thrice nominated for Best Comedy Show at previous Fringe festivals - a rising star, but Catamaran exudes the requisite energy, creativity and comic zeal.
REVIEW: John-Luke Roberts @ Monkey Barrel
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat I Talk About When I Run About Talking is a polished hour of stand-up built around therapy, mental health, mortality and the prospect of facing down death.
REVIEW: A Cat In A Box @ The Space
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTom Nemec is a brilliant storyteller. Within minutes, he makes you forget you are in a small studio theatre and instead you feel you are sitting together with the audience around a campfire, listening to a relative’s life story.
REVIEW: Rory Marshall: Thank You for the Opportunity
Reading Time: 2 minutesRory Marshall’s latest stand-up hour Thank You for the Opportunity adds a ripe bunch more to the list.