Consider yourself at home with this lot; from famous-revenge tales to cute-potted plants (hiding terrible secrets) to a punk-rock icon and Gods of old, there’s a veritable maelstrom of music in the city this August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What better way to mark the year than with a song in your heart and … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023: Musicals
Encore, encore. Come one and all for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s greatest and most successful as we Have a Gander at some of the many returning shows for 2023. Some have been staples of the Fringe for years; others became tremendous successes only last year. But there’s one thing they all share – they’re back, … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023: Returning Shows
Ah yes, the other side of the coin. The misery to the laughter. The performance to the wit. The theatrical underbelly of the Festival Fringe to that of its Comedic alter-ego and larger sibling. All the world's a stage, and we are merely the audience. Something like that, yeah? There’s no question that the comedy … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023: Theatre
https://youtu.be/faH-Pp1Sll0 Written & Directed by Rogue Rubin Australia/2022/76mins ★★★★ There’s something remarkable about the King of the Jungle. For one, you’d never find them in a Jungle. But the Lion, the cultural hegemonic symbol of the animal kingdom depicted in sculpture, art and literature as a persistent and encompassing symbol for centuries finds their existence … Continue reading Lion Spy – Review
https://youtu.be/e8GUE_SExvM Written and Associate Direction by S. Shakthidharan Director and Associate Writing by Eamon Flack ★★★★★ Without a steady foot on the ground, two young lovers’ cross paths one late night/early morning – neither with any roots within their place of study in New South Wales. Sat beneath the still warm night sky, under a … Continue reading Counting and Cracking – Lyceum Theatre
https://youtu.be/MgRjB8PEDkM Written & Directed by Adam Elliot Australia/2009/92 Mins ★★★★★ A two-fold coming-of-age narrative ‘Mary and Max’ (2009) charters the progression of Mary, a young, ‘chubby’ and socially anxious Australian, into a woman, friendship with Max, a middle-aged Atheistic Jew in America. Pen pals, a support system, their friendship grows as Mary seeks an escape … Continue reading Mary and Max – Retrospective Review
