https://youtu.be/P4mbfy0ovpk Created by Showman Productions Review by Dominic Corr Underbelly, George Square: tickets ★★★★ Roll up, roll up, you’re never too old for the circus. The greatest shows on earth, the biggest and boldest of tricks all here waiting for eager audiences at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be found at Circus - The Show! … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Circus The Show
https://youtu.be/xL0uPWsQowE Presented by Fishmarket Theatre Co Review by Dominic Corr theSpace@Niddry St: Tickets ★★★ There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. It’s a derogatory term for having a passion for something (usually a television series, comic book, or film) a person places their passions into, while others may snort or raise their eyebrows. It’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Cringe
https://youtu.be/qRGu408hXac Performed and Written by Tegan Verheul Directorial Support by Rosie Nicholls Review by Dominic Corr Assembly George Square: Tickets ★★★★ What is a wrestling ring if not a stage? What is a ‘heel’ if not an antagonist? And what is ‘kayfabe’ if not the equivalent of ‘based on true events’? This Festival Fringe has … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Chokeslam
https://youtu.be/sMYiO_Ex2QI Review by Dominic Corr Pleasance Courtyard: Tickets ★★★ Chess and comedy. Not the two ‘C’ words you would slot side-by-side at the Festival Fringe, but far odder set-ups have occurred. In truth, the crux of North Macedonian comic Vlad Ilich’s Fringe debut is rather brilliant: a mash-up of their love for chess, with a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vlad Ilich: Vladislav Baby Don’t Hurt Me
Review by Dominic Corr Assembly George Square Studios: Tickets ★★★★ You’ll not often find yourself in the max-security wing of a Superdrug on a Sunday afternoon. Well, maybe you do. Holly Stars certainly does. Audiences join the comic and writer right after she’s been nabbed for nicking a load of lipsticks, and her usual tricks … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Holly Stars: Justice for Holly
Written by Sophie Swithinbank Directed by Nancy Medina Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall: Tickets ★★★★ Onstage stands an empty chair as the audience takes their seats in the Tech Cube, awaiting playwright Sophie Swithinbank’s return to Summerhall after the soaring success of last year’s sell-out sensation and collaboration with HFH Productions, Bacon. Behind the chair … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Surrender
Musical Direction by Ed Zander Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★ Sitting in Pleasance’s Queen Dome, aptly the fringe home of a queen of the West End, the audience titters excitedly for Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret, which promises to be an afternoon of song, dance, and a response to the ongoing climate … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret
Produced by Sweet Beef and Pleasance Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★★ Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenue, one and all to the Cabaret Fragile! Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your…lonely self. Crying Shame is a spectacle of cabaret, camp, clowning, and, most importantly, serving a whole evening’s worth of another c-word *censored*. Come … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Crying Shame
Created by Pleasance & Soho Theatre, in association with Tim Whitehead Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - Beyond: Tickets ★★★★ Upon entrance, a booming voiceover warns the audience that the following performance might be dangerously sexy. Suddenly, clad in a fringed pink sparkling bodycon suit and silver cowboy boots, the gorgeous Ginger Johnson scooters … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Ginger Johnson Blows Off!
Written by Nick Hern, Adapted from George Orwell Directed by Sofia Barysevich Review by Eve Nugent Summerhall - Old Lab: Tickets ★★★★★ ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength’. One of the most remarkable quotes from Orwell’s seminal classic 1984 is ominously projected onto the stage’s backdrop as the audience arrives; a tone of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – 1984
