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…Umbrella Man. Your pitch:     Umbrella Man is a Scottish spoken-word story about a man who tries to prove the Earth is flat. Imagine if Phoebe Waller-Bridge tried to write 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 Roaring Girls on their show Beach Body Ready. Your pitch:     Shaving? Tanning? Over exercising? Cabbage Souping? Starving? Don’t bother, we're not! Grab your pals and your biscuits and ...

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 Kit Redstone on his show Passengers. Your pitch:     Max wants to tell you a story. He’s not entirely sure why, or even who he is; savage, peacekeeper or critic...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 Jennifer Irons on her show Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North) Your pitch:     Ever wondered what life is like in Canada’s frozen north? “Intrepid” Jen grew ...

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…Luke Rollason's Infinite Content. Your pitch:     Imagine a slapstick Black Mirror performed by Mr Bean crossed with Inspector Gadget, with advert breaks. The live comedy equivalent of going online to ...

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…Privates: A Sperm Odyssey Your pitch:     Three men dress up as sperm to stage the sexual education equivalent of Saving Private Ryan. But with sperm. All 300 million of them. ...

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…Steve N Allen Your pitch:     Have you noticed how the world is getting worse? Angry eggs on Twitter, body-part grabbing world leaders, bad drivers and everyone rushing to be 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…Being Frank about Sinatra. Your pitch:     If it weren’t for my interest in music, I would’ve ended up in a life of crime – Frank Sinatra What other show shouldn’t ...