https://youtu.be/ZqDwf7RKWJQ Co-created and Performed by Louis Abbott, Louis McCraw, Kim Grant, Jo Mango & Solareye Directed by Liam Hurley Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly Roxy: Tickets ★★★★★ For such an early morning show, it’s safe to say that Liam Hurley and Jo Mango’s devised piece does not hold back. Packing an emotional punch, Claire Halleran’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – A Giant on the Bridge
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!
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
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
https://youtu.be/FKd4iXJcUpY Hosted by Alba Flamenca Review by Marina Funcasta Alba Flamenca: Tickets ★★★★★ Referring to their show as a “flamenco fiesta”, Alba flamenco could not be closer to the truth. A party in every sense of the word, the collective filled the intimate room with effervescence. On the edge of our seats, looking around, it … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Flamenco Fiesta
Created by Todd Almond Directed by David Cromer Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Main Hall: Tickets ★★★ Promising from the outset, I’m Almost There was truly unlike anything I had ever seen before. A story set to music, with no visual cues except for Almond’s occasional turns to the audience, this play is not … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – I’m Almost There
Review by Marina Funcasta Underbelly, George Square: Tickets ★★★ Bringing a dance-comedy show to Fringe, Stephanie Laing could definitely be called the spearhead of her genre. Bridging the topics of her stand-up through the physical sequences, Laing embraces a disjointed fluidity for the sake of creativity. Refreshing, it is nothing like any comedy show I’ve … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Stephanie Laing: Rudder
Written and Performed by Laurel Brae Review by Marina Funcasta Greenside @ Riddles Court : Tickets ★★ With a flower crown, green linen dress, and rocks in her pocket, Laura Thurlow’s River Time! is a pagan’s dream. Evoking the wild woman from ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves’, Thurlow’s histrionic tale about rejection and suicide … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – River Time
