Scotland Reviews

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of Fringe Wives Club.  Fierce, feminist and furiously funny, the disco-dazzling comedy-cabaret power trio unleash their hit debut show. Direct from winning best cabaret at Adelaide Fringe and picking up a nomination ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of The Last One. The Last One is brutal physical theatre and a call to arms to preserve Epic Beauty. The metaphysically anxious thoughts of a dying, anonymous pigeon mix with the ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of The C Bomb. Chloe discovers that she has chlamydia, and in the interests of economising, decides to throw a party to share the news with her ex-lovers. The only Fringe play ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of Frau Welt. My show is a one-hour spectacle of my life in the theatre, from Weimar Berlin to the bright lights of Broadway. Expect song, dance, smoke and scandalous anecdotes. But ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of Pigs in Blankets. Like Pigs? Love Blankets? Come watch a play about an oppressive government. It’s ham-packed with highbrow humour about the struggles two subjects face in overthrowing the ADAM dictatorship. ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of Larry Dean on Bampot. My show is about being a gay, Glaswegian who was brought up in a Catholic family, along with being sent to therapy as a kid. It’ll be ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of Solarplexus. Every day, solar fires descend to Earth and light the land on fire. Only activist-vlogger Ellen can stop the corporation that's causing it. Powered by a self-generating bicycle and scored ...

With time being precious during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe we challenged this year’s acts to deliver a 50-word elevator pitch for their show. This time it’s the turn of Flushed. Flushed is a comedy-drama set in the female toilets that focuses on two sisters and how their relationship is affected by Premature Menopause. It touches on issues of fertility, family ...