Dance Base provides a glass-clad and stainless-steel-lined sanctuary from the Fringe crowds. What the building promises in terms of "trendy," the shows provide. X Factor Dance Company, winter guests and...
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say” Lifted from Edgar’s final speech in King Lear, these words begin...
After leaving The Riot Showgrrrls Club, I present one of the “labia cakes” I have acquired—that is, a fairy cake decorated with a gumdrop clitoris—to a friend. “Bland, except for...
The Dinner, written by Writers' Guild award winner Moira Buffini, plots an evening in which bitter socialite Paige crafts her guests' downfall with a series of conceptual meals. Each...
With the right atmosphere this could be a really enchanting evening event to set you up for a spirited late night of Fringe festivities. But relying heavily on exuberant audience...
The reason why all adults despise teenagers is announced: we just can’t stand to look at them and remember that we’re old; that we’re never going to be so free...
Kunst ist Scheisse is a cabaret presented by three girls from "The Caravan of Love." Initially asked to locate and poke your spleen, the gland of desire, this show continues...
Adolphe Adams’s nineteenth century ballet explores the alienation and destruction caused social hierarchy. The aristocratic Albrecht falls for the lovely, lithe and nimble Giselle, a peasant girl. However, Albrecht neglects...
Jesus and his entrepreneurial rat pack (Buddha, Ghandi, Jehovah, Lucifer) have royally cocked up Creation. It all began when our unruly messiah spat in a petri dish in a slapdash...
There’s a recurring moral dilemma that haunts the practice of review writing for the Fringe. It concerns the lunacy of being forced to compare fully professional productions with things that...
Billed as “a play about pubs, set in a pub,” My Own Private Submarine’s site-specific monologue, Closing Time, is exactly that – except that the show is sadly not just...
Can a group of boys really be driven to rape a girl out of sheer boredom? In The Magic Tree, the latest play by award-winning Irish playwright Ursula Rani Sarma,...
It’s increasingly difficult to describe Daniel Kitson simply as a comedian. His stand-up work has beco more philosophical and emotional in recent years, performed with the intention of moving his...
The imprisonment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, was one of the defining moments in Tudor history, and has fascinated countless history buffs...
A small closet is the hunting ground habitually designated to actors who wish to furnish the Fringe with a monologue. Whilst some of these dank quarters can provide an enthralling...
Hollywood's merciless obsession with youth is at the heart of Joan Rivers' autobiographical show, Work in Progress by a Life in Progress, in which she recounts her life in the...
This bleak and forceful study of warfare interrupts the jollity of the Fringe
There are only so many things that can be reasonably done in an hour. Unfortunately no-one seems to have informed Pericles Snowdon, the playwright behind Lichentongue – a production which...
Fans, if that really is the correct term, of Ludovic Kennedy’s 10 Rillington Place, or the subsequent film, will be familiar with the story of John Reginald Christie, hanged in...
Serious politics and serious theatre - but do they add up?
