Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.
Theatre
As I write this, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is sprawling across my TV screen, making me…
Athol and Morna, brother and sister, haven’t spoken in fourteen years. Morna’s son, Joshua (Josh to his Uncle…
The last time I saw an audience as glamorous as the one at High Tease, was at a Bryan Ferry concert. Say no…
Hungering is not what it used to be. Time was when a hunger artist at the top of his game could earn a very…
It seems to me that the best horrors have a recognisable sense of reality. The world is as real as the one…
Picasso is attributed with the saying “Good artists copy, great artists steal”.
Two men find themselves castaways from life as a huge flood engulfs the UK. Seemingly trapped by the…
As its title suggests, this new play by Bill Dunlop has more than just a soupcon of the French about it. Set…
Not much of a joker, was he, that George Orwell?
February 2012, the life of Ollie Dabbous is transformed overnight: from unknown chef at his new London…
I have just seen one of the funniest things on the Fringe - unfortunately, it wasn't this show.
Beryl runs a discrete little cross-dressing service but is about to find out what it is like to walk in…
"There's an awful lot of tech on that set."
First impressions set up expectations which may or may not be…
The Usher Hall was full for this ingenious presentation of a much-loved and legendary operetta. There was an…
If it saves time, you are only likely to enjoy this show if you are under 23, preferably male and think that…
“What wind blew you here?” asks Miss Havisham as she sits at her dressing-table, frozen in time, preparing…
Enter with caution and an open mind as your every move is under the magnifying glass at the mercy of the…
Edinburgh has had its fair share of drug addicts. We buried Thomas De Quincey the self-confessed opium…
Endearing, charming and sympathetic – not terms usually used to describe the rock star of American Literature…
A touching outpouring from a young girl drenched in grief.