Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Eric Rushton / Mark ThomasWednesday, 07 August 2024
Eric Rushton, Monkey Barrel @ The Hive ★★★★ Eric Rushton tells us he has enough cash on him to return the price of one person’s ticket if they don’t like what’s about to follow. No one takes up the offer, although I suspect a few in the... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: The Mosinee Project / Gwyneth Goes SkiingTuesday, 06 August 2024
The Mosinee Project, Underbelly Cowgate ★★★★In May 1950, a small US town awoke to hammer-and-sickle flags hanging from lamp-posts, its local newspaper transformed into a Soviet propaganda journal, its citizens’ firearms confiscated and handed... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Anna Akana / Elliot Steel / Rosco McClellandTuesday, 06 August 2024
Anna Akana, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ If you like morbid humour, you’ve come to the right place. Asian American comic Anna Akana, a YouTube star making her Fringe debut, dives in at the deep end with It Gets Darker, which deals with, inter alia, her... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Jin Hao Li / Sian DaviesMonday, 05 August 2024
Jin Hao Li Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Jin Hao Li was born in China, raised in Singapore and studied English at a Scottish university. So it’s perhaps not surprising that, in drawing on so many cultural sources, his brand of comedy should be so... Read more... |
ECHO, LIFT 2024, Royal Court review - enriching journey into the mind of an exileSaturday, 20 July 2024
The Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is many things, some seemingly contradictory: a) a clever, poetic playwright who uses high-tech elements in his work to inventive effect; b) a mischievous presence who likes to appear in his own highly... Read more... |
Baby Reindeer, Netflix review - a misery memoir disturbingly presentedFriday, 19 April 2024
Richard Gadd won an Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2016 with material about being sexually abused by a man, in a set called Monkey See, Monkey Do that he performed on a treadmill with a gorilla at his back. He followed that with another piece of... Read more... |
Gunter, Royal Court review - jolly tale of witchcraft and misogynyTuesday, 09 April 2024
Many an Edinburgh Fringe transfer has struggled when it moves to the big city, but the Dirty Hare company’s Gunter, sensibly embedded in the Royal Court’s intimate Upstairs space, has settled in nicely, thanks.Originally staged at the best Fringe... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 review: Ahir ShahMonday, 28 August 2023
Ahir Shah, Monkey BarrelAhir Shah is a fast talker, but then in Ends – which deservedly won best show in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards – he has a lot to say. It's a show about multiculturalism, family, identity, fitting in, and encompasses modern... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: CHOO CHOO! / Blood of the LambSaturday, 26 August 2023
CHOO CHOO! (Or... Have You Ever Thought About ****** **** *****? (Cos I Have)), Pleasance Dome ★★★★Nye and Duncan seem to live a charmed life. Clad in primary-coloured dungarees, they begin their days with a song, and see what adventures... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Distant Memories of the Near Future / Soldiers of TomorrowFriday, 25 August 2023
Distant Memories of the Near Future, Summerhall ★★★★About three decades into the future, love has been "solved" – with (what else?) an algorithm, and a healthy splash of AI. It’s so successful, in fact, that states worldwide officially... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Janine Harouni / Paddy Young / Ian SmithFriday, 25 August 2023
Janine Harouni, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Names and identity feature heavily in Janine Harouni’s new show, Man’oushe, itself titled about where her family nickname comes from. Heavily pregnant (the reason why she is ending the show’s Edinburgh... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 reviews: Dark Noon / Concerned OthersWednesday, 23 August 2023
Dark Noon, Pleasance at EICC ★★★★★If there’s a more ambitious theatre production than Dark Noon at the Fringe this year, I’ve yet to see it. That’s ambitious in terms of its staging: during the course of the show’s 100 minutes (yes, it’s a... Read more... |
