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Edinburgh Fringe
Set in a swing park, adult actors from Grid Iron recreate one summer when most of them were nine, too wee for…
Having briefly worked in a call centre and able to remember the almost unbearable agony of pre cigarette…
The Edinburgh-based Barony Ensemble performed their unusual, colourful and virtuosic programme in St Andrew's…
Tailors have had a tendency to be men, but it is generally women who do the sewing at home; the making and…
It's always good when performers enjoy giving us a brief introduction to what they are about to play.
Kristin Hersh cuts a slight but forbidding onstage figure.
Last week I passed The Old Quad, the inner courtyard of Edinburgh University’s most magnificent building. On…
Freckles create the feel good effect. Despite a slightly uncertain start, this new musical by Lawman, Finch,…
In the decrepit splendour of a chaotic old sideshow known as Riley’s Odditorium, we meet Riley’s family of…
The clowning genius of Clout is back! Once again the Demonstration Room at Summerhall is graced with the…
This is the easiest review I have had to make so far this Fringe because it's one of those glorious hidden…
This, or something like it, has existed since the Fifteenth Century, says Sarah while examining a world globe…
One lonely building in the heart of Scotland’s wilderness. Four lost souls with a shared history. Only one…
Anyone who walks into the grand, imposing halls of the Assembly Rooms might wonder if the performance to…
There are some things that should never have found their way onto this good green earth.
“The domino effect;
You understand it as leading to catastrophe
But learn its secrets
And it can also lead to…
Spent too much time watching the cosy and safe street theatre of Edinburgh's Royal Mile?
“I have a degree in shitology,” says Tolu, not a claim many of us would want to make.
Motherwell, “Surf City” the Bondi Beach of Lanarkshire, Malibu of the North - even though it’s 25 miles from…
Tipped to win this year's Perrier (but so is
everyone), Lucy Porter’s chatty humour about the little things…