REVIEW: A History of Paper

Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Gareth Williams and Oliver Emanuel, the 2024 Fringe First Award-winning show, A History of Paper, makes its way to Tayside in this Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Dundee Rep production.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Gareth Williams and Oliver Emanuel, the 2024 Fringe First Award-winning show, A History of Paper, makes its way to Tayside in this Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Dundee Rep production.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Durham Review returns to the fringe with a new show, seemingly aiming to move from sketch into a long-form type of show about Indiana Jones. The only issue is, Indy hasn't made it yet. This leaves the team of performers to fill the time with what they know best, some good old sketch comedy.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEleanor Morton seems to have been around for ages, and while she has received plenty of acclaim has also managed to fly under the radar given the consistent quality of her material.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTemi Wilkey’s Lover Girl, staged at Pleasance Courtyard for the Edinburgh Fringe, is a riotous, razor-sharp dissection of modern romance, queer sexuality, and the exhausting pursuit of self-worth.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten and directed by Cora Bissett, with music and lyrics by beloved Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, The Singer is an hour and a half of not only great music but also top-notch storytelling.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a void inside Edith Alibec. She doesn’t know what to fill it with, but perhaps you will… Embodying something between a dance and a violent writhing, Alibec enters the stage.

Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Detective Heartbreak’ comes to the Edinburgh Fringe through the University of Glasgow’s Student Theatre at Glasgow society, directed by Lewis Cooper and starring Jake Thomson, Daniel Parrett, Tilly Mearns and Kathryn Kennedy.

Reading Time: 2 minutesTom Neenan brings his new hour of comedy to the Fringe.

Reading Time: 2 minutesEva Seymour is an outstanding performer and an inventive writer.

Reading Time: 2 minutes“It’s a lightning-in-a-bottle show where everyone spends a whole lot of time laughing, even though you don’t always know why.”