Review by Annie Aslett Assembly Rooms: Tickets ★★ Improv comedy is a difficult skill - the best improv comics make it look easy. Unfortunately, today's production of Spontaneous Potter reminds us how tricky this medium really is. The premise is solid gold: take suggestions from the audience for a new show, Harry Potter and the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Spontaneous Potter: The Unofficial Improvised Parody
Review by Annie Aslett Pleasance Courtyard: Tickets ★★★★ It is often with trepidation that one enters a stand-up comedy debut at a tiny Edinburgh Fringe venue – too often, audiences are pity-laughing because silence in such proximity would be so much worse. With Hannah Platt’s show, there’s no need to worry. Well-written, subversive jokes get … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism
https://youtu.be/8qlmiKqW4Ic Directed by Joe McNeice Written by Nora Brigid Monahan Music and lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen Review by Annie Aslett Underbelly, Cowgate: Tickets ★★★★★ Tickets for Diva: Live From Hell are a hot commodity, as rave reviews for this returning show pack in the punters. Heat is also the first thing you're hit with as … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – DIVA: Live From Hell!
https://youtu.be/SPwHbJ1XP24 Review by Annie Aslett George Square Studio Gardens: Tickets ★★★★ Forget the chicken and the egg; anyone attending a Reuben Kaye show at the Palais du Variété must wonder whether the grand, sultry circus tent inspired the performer, or whether hosting Kaye’s wicked glamour is this venue’s raison d’être. So at home is Kaye … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Reuben Kaye: Live and Intimidating
Created by Dylan MarcAurele Directed by Joe McNeice Review by Annie Aslett Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose: Tickets ★★★★★ An interesting concept. Genuinely funny jokes. Truly great original songs. Slick staging. Even one triple-threat cast member. Most musicals at the Fringe are lucky to have two of these ingredients. Pop Off, Michelangelo proudly boasts all five … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Pop Off, Michelangelo!
Written & Produced by Sam Cochrane Arrangements & Musical Direction by Rob Gathercole Directed by Ali James Review by Annie Aslett Pleasance Courtyard: Tickets ★★★★ A Jaffa Cake Musical is well packaged and presented, but there are questions about its substance. Ring any bells? The creative team at Gigglemug are no strangers to an original, branded musical, with … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – A Jaffa Cake Musical
Created by The Hairy Godmothers Review by Annie Aslett Assembly George Square Studios: Tickets ★★★★ Disney is no stranger to a drag reinterpretation. Drag performers in various Disney guises are hardly a new sight. However, no one is doing it funnier or filthier than the Hairy Godmothers’ production of Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a Parody
Created by Yaron Lifschitz with the Circa Ensemble Directed by Yaron Lifschitz Original Music by Ori Lichtik Review by Mhairi Sime Underbelly Circus Hub: Tickets ★★★★ Yaron Lifschitz’s Circa brings audiences the most mesmerising hour at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Located in Underbelly’s iconic Circus Hub at the Meadows, the acrobats transport the audience from … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Circa: Humans 2.0
https://youtu.be/7FJUfje8e7Y Created by ComedySportz UK Musical Direction by Felix Janeway and Laurie Freeman Review by Annie Aslett Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters ★★★★ 'Confessions of a Hotel Cleaner: The Musical' is weirdly not the most niche musical title at this year's Fringe. The Totally Improvised Musical team puts on a brand new show every … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Totally Improvised Musical
Directed by Dominic Lewis Musical Direction by Finlay Turnbull Review by Dominic Corr Paradise in Augustine : Tickets ★★★★★ Occasionally, the best parts of the story – or, in this case, the review – aren’t reserved for the tale’s ending. So, reversing the traditional happy ending, we’ll begin with a happy beginning: Into The Woods … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bare Productions: Into The Woods
