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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 Power Play Theatre. Staged in a real Edinburgh house, Power Play brings 4 brand new site-specific plays by female writers, including work originally commissioned by the Royal Court.  Featuring themes such ...

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 Owen Roberts. I have let a six-year-old write my show. She writes it and I perform it. Simple right? Wrong. She can’t focus, she can’t spell, and her ideas are wildly ...

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 Ciarán Dowd.  The greatest character comedy show ever written. Easily. By some distance. I reckon. Don Rodolfo is an arrogant, preening, chauvinistic man-child fighting his way around 17th Century Europe, having ...

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. ...