Have a Gander: CATS 2026 Shortlists Reflect a Theatre Scene in Confident Motion
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Have A Gander at Pantomime in Scotland 2025
It’s that glorious part of the year again — and no, it’s not the Festival Fringe. It’s Panto season. Pull on the heels, coat yourself in glitter and prepare the boos and cheers: familiar dames and mischievous baddies are back to lead the nation’s favourite festive bargain of slapstick, songs and crowd‑pleasing mayhem. Below is … Continue reading Have A Gander at Pantomime in Scotland 2025
Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – The Golden Goose Awards
Presenting: The Golden Goose For one time only (until next year), we ditch our trademark crimson and don the finest of guilded feathers to celebrate our top choices for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We'll be crafting a selection of 'Top Geese' from the flock, with each of the writers submitting their top choice across … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – The Golden Goose Awards
Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Musical Mayhem
With a song in their hearts, it's another year of Scottish, UK, and World premieres, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe continues to be a home for the musically gifted and the biggest entertainers across the globe. Here we take a look at some of the musical highlights of this August's season. From now until August kicks … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Musical Mayhem
Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Top Theatre Trips
Returning with another year of Scottish, UK, and World premieres, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe continues to be at the forefront of the world's home of art and culture. Here we take a look at some of the theatrical highlights of this August's season. Featuring big budgets and familiar names, debut writing pieces, and a few … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Top Theatre Trips
Have A Gander – Scottish Theatre 2024
What a year. From deals with the devil to singing nuns, the blitz to the Appalachian Mountains, and to the end of the world and the emergence of a new one, theatre across Scotland in 2024 was fraught with many difficulties. As we head into a concerning 2025, where questions of funding still hang over … Continue reading Have A Gander – Scottish Theatre 2024
Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – No Place Called Home
https://youtu.be/QlVJcaCk4Is Written and Directed by Seb Elder Review by Gabriel Rogers Greenside @ Riddles Court ★★★★ Third Culture Productions' debut fringe show boldly explores how grief and the climate crisis affect a young family and their friend. No Place Called Home, written and directed by Seb Elder, doesn’t stage the climate crisis at ground zero but instead in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – No Place Called Home
Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vigil
https://youtu.be/WHxFMFv1iOw Created by Tom Bailey Review by Gabriel Rogers Zoo Southside ★★★★★ Tom Bailey’s Vigil is a delicate love letter to the lesser-known and more interestingly named fauna which lives or, rather upsettingly, has ceased to live on planet Earth. The show begins comically as Bailey attempts, with great success, to mimic and clown 26,000 … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vigil
Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Jamie Denbo: Beverly Live!
Review by Gabriel Rogers Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose - The Other Yin: Tickets ★★★★★ In Beverly Live! Jamie Denbo’s alter ego, Beverly Ginsberg, is the outrageously funny Jewish grandmother you always wished you had! The show begins as Beverly strolls onto the Gilded Balloon stage sporting fluorescent pink trousers and a purple t-shirt which spells … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Jamie Denbo: Beverly Live!
Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – A History of Fortune Cookies
Created and Performed by Sean Wai Keung Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Former Women's Locker Room: Tickets ★★★★★ It seems that food as a cultural experience has gained quite a popularity in this Fringe. From Hannah Kahlil’s ‘My English Persian Kitchen’ to Sean Wai Keung’s ‘The History of a Fortune Cookie’, interactive consumption has … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – A History of Fortune Cookies