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
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
Created by Alexander Tait Directed by Ivan Hamshaw Thomas Review by Marina Funcasta The space @ Symposium Hall : Tickets ★★★★★ A story about identity, friendship, guilt and the power of connection, ‘Kev Campbell was he’ is filled to the brim with emotion and vitality. Something you possibly wouldn’t expect from the title; acquiring an … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Kev Campbell was He
Created by Pam Ford Review by Marina Funcasta Laughing Horse @ City Cafe: Tickets ★★★ Making her yearly return to the Fringe, Pam Ford’s one-woman biographical show is filled to the brim with honest Australian charm. Detailing stories of her childhood flicking between Birmingham and Melbourne, it is clear from the onset that the power … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Pam Ford AKA SPam Ford
