Comedy | Feature
Interviews by Ariadne Cass-Maran and Siân Bevan: Scott Agnew on winning HaHa Comedy’s Scottish Comedian of the Year Until September I'd only ever won one thing in my life - a Blue Peter annual...
Dermot McMorrow: Braws: Cereal My first morning in Edinburgh I was eating cereal for breakfast and there was milk left over, I added more cereal and more milk and at...
Theatre | Feature
Gareth K Vile: As the years go on, the Fringe has become more of a comedy festival, with even plays bending to the twin commands of brevity and wit. Thankfully, a fe...
Des Clarke: It is finally over. This Edinburgh festival 2008 has ceased to be. It is a late Fringe. This year’s full monty is a deid parrot, climaxing more...
Gareth K Vile: Sometimes, it becomes impossible to know what the Fringe will serve up next. I have seen magic shows disguised as meditations on human nature (thank y...
Des Clarke: A Fringe performer’s day off at is about as rare as leftovers on Rik Waller’s dinner plate, and about as surprising as a call to his agent...
Comedy | Review
Emma Lennox: Squeezing between the burly armed men of George Street's Standing Order pub, I spot a hand written sign in green marker. It is scrawled in straight fo...
Emma Lennox: The blood balloons out of the finger and is sucked into the plastic stick, it then seeps into the calculator; 6.1 it beeps. Comedian Karl Spain fiddle...
Theatre | Review
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Des Clarke: They used to say that being a Scottish performer at the Fringe was a bit like the story of Sting’s song ‘An Englishman in New York’....
Diet of Worms: Braw: The delightfully odd woman who came to our show last week and cried, wailed and sniffled all the way through because apparently Rory somehow rem...
Gareth K Vile: The third of Dancebase’s mixed bills features a long work from Norway’s Odd Johan Fritzoe and a jittering remix from Rosie Kay. Both of th...
Agata Maslowska: There is nothing complex in the director’s approach to Philip de Gouveia’s play about the psychedelic counter-culture guru Timothy Leary a...
Steve Mould & Gemma Arrowsmith: Problem #1: “I was walking down the Royal Mile when a sudden downpour meant my laptop is now waterlogged.“ Mould & Arrowsmith sugges...
Robert Duffin: Everyone has a George W. Bush joke. Not since a certain ex-President forgot to hand his assistant a Kleenex to dab her dress has a Commander in Chief ...
Theatre | Review 
