Tag Archives: Edinburgh Fringe

Writer: Romy Nordlinger Director: Katie McHugh Reviewer: Tom Ralphs Alla Nazimova has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was a trailblazing artist who transferred from stage to screen in the 1920s and went on to write and direct several movies as well as hosting parties with guest lists that included the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Rudolph ...

Writer: Sofie Hagen Reviewer: Faye Hadley The title of Sofie Hagen’s latest Fringe offering comes from a series of grim experiments in the 1800s which concluded that a slowly boiled frog would fail to notice its impending doom. This, coupled with trigger warnings placed on seats, suggests a far more gruelling hour than is on offer. While Hagen skilfully tackles ...

Writer: Matthew Hall Director: Ross MacKay Reviewer: Tom Ralphs A slide projector mounted on a collection of notebooks, against a backdrop that includes a video player, diaries and paperbacks is the setting for My Name is Irrelevant. It looks like the bedsit of someone trapped in a 1970s childhood, making it the perfect setting for a piece that deals with ...

Reviewer: David Doyle Two hippos race towards the moon in a bid to be the first hippo on it, in the stage adaptation of the best-selling children’s novel by David Walliams. For ages three and up, it’s a fun morning with an enjoyable story that will delight children even if it relies a little too much on toilet humour and ...

Writer: Enda Walsh Director: Kate Gaul Reviewer: Chloe St George  By the time Laura Marling's Devils Spoke rang out at the end of the performance, some audience members' tears were in freefall. "All of this can be broken, hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground." So goes Marling's verse, rather prophetic of Enda Walsh's Misterman ...

Writer: Alexander Bennett Reviewer: Faye Hadley Alexander Bennett, winner of the 1993 ‘Most Beautiful Baby’s Smile’ competition at Butlins, has had a tough year. These two facts form the basis of his latest stand up show. While the details of why 2016 proved to be so difficult are scarcely revealed, the show remains deeply personal and, for the most part, ...

Reviewer: Faye Hadley As his aptly titled show suggests Thom Tuck is a staple of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This August, like many before it, he is appearing in numerous shows along with his solo stand-up. Embodying the anarchic spirit of the festival his performances encompass everything from indie band tribute acts to sketch shows. In his sixteenth consecutive Fringe and ...

Reviewer: Tom Ralphs The original boyband. For anyone who believes that choreographed dance routines behind microphones began with Westlife and Boyzone, the Other Guys show where they got the blueprint from, and provide an hour of sing-along nostalgia that leaves the audience smiling. Nick Martland, Joe Bishop, Raymond Walsh and Dickie Wood are the four singers, ably supported by a seven-piece ...