Venue: Pleasance at EICC, Lomond Theatre Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Reputedly the world’s longest-running live comedy show, NewsRevue provides an hour of satirical singing, dancing and sketches that garners laughs while remaining on fairly well-travelled comedic ground. The staging is minimal, with scenes established through impressively rapid costume changes. The various segments are held together by the […]
Venue: Underbelly George Square – The Milking ShedRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fringe stalwart production Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns to the Fringe at Underbelly, before its West End debut. Created by double Olivier Award winner Jon Brittain and Matt Tedford, this show is a rip-roaring production delivered in a glossy hi-fi format. The first thing that […]
Venue: Laughing Horse @ 32 Below 3, Venue 442Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It is not often you leave a Fringe show feeling educated and entertained in equal measure, but Alex Farrow: Philosophy Pig is an exception. Starring Alex Farrow himself, an ex-philosophy teacher who threw it all in to become a full-time standup, this show integrates fundamental […]
Venue: theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Garden Theatre) Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s long-running improvisation troupe The Improverts return once again to their Fringe residency, bringing a night of unscripted laughs to the Fringe crowd. The Improverts provide their usual good quality improvisation. The show is heavily focused on audience suggestions, and the players deal […]
Venue: theSpace Triplex – Jenner Theatre (Venue 38) Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Two Ladders Productions brings to the Fringe Embassy Stomp, a WWII-set comedy concerning a war correspondent’s tangled involvement in a plot to assassinate an ambassador. Written and performed by alumni of the University of St Andrews and University of Cambridge, this play is 50 minutes […]
Lockdown has presented unprecedented challenges to the live performance industry, with the sector struggling to remain viable. However, despite these immense pressures, some companies have taken it upon themselves to carry on providing their audiences with entertainment, using challenging and innovative methods. One such company is Scottish Ballet, who on 22 July 2020 premiered their […]
The Royal Lyceum Theatre and Citizens Theatre take on a Brecht comedy classic with Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti, adapted from Brecht’s original by Scottish crime writer Denise Mina. Directed by DOT Theatre Istanbul’s Murat Daltaban, the play attends to drunkenness and class conflict. Mrs Puntila (Elaine C. Smith) is a rich lady of […]
Scottish Dance Theatre’s production Antigone, Interrupted is a marathon display of dedication from its solo performer. Conceived, directed and choreographed by the SDA’s Artistic Director Joan Clevillé and starring Solène Weinachter, this production is all about perspectival shifts and who is looking at whom. The first surprise that this show delivers is the stage set-up. […]