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 Monkey Barrel Comedy HIVE: Tickets ★★★ A double-meaning, the ‘Meanings of Life’tagline is used cleverly by Yoriko Kotani to demonstrate double standards and cultural confusion in moving from Japan to the UK to often hilarious consequences and anecdotes. A charming set-up, one which would spoil the entire performance to reveal Kotani’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Yuriko Kotani: The Meanings of Life
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
https://youtu.be/Qfa86liTwVc Written by Sophia Simmons Directed by Claire Glenn Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ There’s a peculiar ‘no-no’ attitude towards discussions of Artificial Intelligence at this year’s Festival Fringe. Shows which feature AI are using it as the butt of a joke, toying with it’s comedic properties, or manifesting it as a throw-away gag character. … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Only Human
Written by Sam Edmunds Directed by Sam Edmunds & Vikesh Godhwani Review by Dominic Corr Summerhall - Demonstration Room: Tickets ★★★★★ Thumping house music, an off-brand bottle of gin (never Gordons), and a thirst for life that only youth can hold, Sam Edmunds’s The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return is an … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return
Written by Adam Rapp Directed by Matt Wilkinson Review by Dominic Corr Traverse Theatre: Tickets ★★★★ Nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play, the buzz surrounding Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside was deserving before its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Traverse Theatre’s cracking TravFest season. Its intense, unflourished … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Sound Inside
https://youtu.be/J3tK6wBXa8A Directed by Grace Morgan Dramaturgy/Original Material from William Dunleavy Review by Dominic Corr Buccleach Terrace: Tickets ★★★★ It all feels like a touch of cloak and dagger. Beginning like a PSA in teaching kids to avoid strangers, the site-specific You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) leaves a single audience member alone on the pavements below the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – You’re Needy (sounds frustrating)
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
Written by Yilong Liu Review by Dominic Corr The Pleasance Courtyard - Below : Tickets ★★★★ When the only surviving keepsakes of someone you deeply care for passes are their 179 hyper-critical, lyrical, and downright inspirational (for us lot) restaurant Yelp reviews, there will be a draw for those left behind to fill in the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Book of Mountains and Seas
Written by Douglas Maxwell Directed by Gareth Nicholls Review by Dominic Corr Traverse Theatre - Traverse One : Tickets ★★★★★ There are few other things distinctly Scottish than having your pals over for a takeaway. Catching up, sharing stories of the ‘old days’, and putting the world to the right. But what leading playwright and … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – So Young
