Edinburgh Fringe

The biggest arts festival in the world.

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of seeing a French production of Molière's play Le Malade Imaginaire by…
Full steam ahead is the message for The Danish New Works Development Center after seeing one of only two…
Alfred Jarry's original production of Ubu Roi in 1896 caused riots on its opening night and has since shaped…
Tailors have had a tendency to be men, but it is generally women who do the sewing at home; the making and…
The only point of reference I had of Scott Capurro before seeing him this year, was his performance in the…
This powerful new musical is a heady mixture of very serious stuff lightened by a very remarkable circus!
It is an extraordinarily shameful admittance, particularly as a Welshman, but until last night I had no…
Apophenia: the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things -…
This is braw. As the eponymous character of Willy Russell’s ‘Educating Rita’ finds when she reduces her…
The Battle of Pots and Pans is based on a battle that took place in l745 in the southeastern Scottish town of…
“I wanna be a man, mancub And stroll right into town And be just like the other men …”
Vendetta Mathea, during a residence at La Manufacture, experimented, designed and developed both the physical…
Amidst strewn cardboard packing boxes, the cast gradually regain consciousness. “What a night!” groans Tom,…
If ever a show illustrated that prodigious talent alone is not enough to create a top class show, this is it.
I was curious how EatTheBaby was going to pull off A Clockwork Orange. It has been done many times before by…
Nurturing is at the heart of this year’s flagship play in the Traverse Theatre’s Festival programme, Milk.
There aren’t many shows when the performer comes out to the queue as a kind of personal warm up act, but that…
Issy van Randwyck is a star of the musical stage: a triple Olivier Award nominee for various West End…
Tony Cima, a well-known singer-songwriter himself, shares his enthusiasm for the work of Jake Thackray.
With a business-like desk and bulletin board with map, photographs, a bran flakes packet and fairy lights, we…