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Next up in our annual series of Fringe preview Q & A's it's the turn of Marcus Monroe. In one sentence tell us about your show.  It's a true story about my quest to become your favourite juggler and I'm not giving up on my dreams and nothing can stop me. What made you decide to bring a show this ...

It's time for our annual series of Fringe preview Q & A's. Here we talk about new show Tom and Bunny Save the World. In one sentence tell us about your show. A black comedy with folk music following a group of Brits travelling from London to Yorkshire in the zombie apocalypse. What made you decide to bring a show this ...

It's that time of year when we launch our annual series of Fringe preview Q & A's. Andy Edwards talks about his show Scribble. In one sentence tell us about your show. Bran Flakes, anxiety and gravity: Scribble is about we share our mental health with each other. What made you decide to bring a show this year? We had just presented Scribble ...

It's that time of year when we launch our annual series of Fringe preview Q & A's. Alison Skillbeck talks about her show The Power Behind The Crone. In one sentence tell us about your show. In this serio-comic celebration of Shakespeare's older women I play Artemis Turret, Professor, let down at her final lecture in a series by her star ...

It's that time of year when we launch our annual series of Fringe preview Q & A's. This time it's the turn of Hot Brown Honey. In one sentence tell us about your show. Hot Brown Honey is where rebellion brews, defiance stews with a dash of taboo, we are here to interrogate all your views. What made you decide to ...

Book: Patricia Resnick Music and Lyrics: Dolly Parton Director: Ken Alexander Reviewer: Mark O’Neill Equality for women is sadly still an issue in today’s society but thankfully times have changed considerably since 1980 when Patricia Resnick wrote the film9 to 5. Having now become regulars at the Fringe, entertaining audiences for over a decade, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland are ...

Writer: Penny Ashton &Robbie Ellis Reviewer:Mel Duncan ‘A man in possession of good fortune, well, wants to keep it’ Penny Ashton presents a more worldly view through the eyes of Jane Austen in this hilarious hour long gallop based on the infamous novels. We join Miss Elspeth Slowtree and a bevy of her family and general acquaintance as they navigate ...

Writer: Jim Cartwright Director: Anthony Banks Reviewer: John Roberts Assembly and Riverside Studios have commissioned Jim Cartwright to produce a new play for this year's Edinburgh Fringe. The result is Raz, a 50 minute monologue looking at the weekend lifestyle of a modern thirty-something male and his friends during a typical night out in Manchester. Raz is nothing groundbreaking, it's ...