Reviews
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FestivalsBoosters @ Zoo
At the end of Boosters, solo performer Hannah Smith explains to her Fringe audience what Echoes Theatre’s play is. It’s a collection of true stor... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
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Merry Christmas, Ms Meadows @ Pleasance Dome
Merry Christmas, Ms Meadows is activist theatre gone right. Belarus Free Theatre combine urgency and innovative production design in a play that is both a th... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
FestivalsMenSWEAR Collection: Spunk @ C Nova
Lights Up Entertainment bring the topics of sex and disability to Edinburgh Fringe with MenSWEAR collection: Spunk, set around the life of James who fe... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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Ubu and the Truth Commission @ Edinburgh International Festival
Based on the revelations at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the harrowing atrocities committed by the South African apartheid regime, ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
FestivalsMock Tudor @ Pleasance Courtyard
If Mock Tudor were a school play and your child were in it, it would be a charming thing to see on a Tuesday evening. As a play about present-day Tudor imper... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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The Greatest Liar in All the World @ Pleasance Courtyard
Every now and then, you come across a play that seems to ignore the lines between children’s and adults’ theatre, comedy and tragedy, circus act ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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The Hemline Index @ Pleasance Courtyard
Fringe virgins Portmanteau present a neat little comedy about being 24 years old, female, and doing a bit of shopping on your lunch break. Set in two dressin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Civil Rogues @ Pleasance Courtyard
The Pleasance’s Civil Rogues is an old-fashioned comedy with old-fashioned jokes and old-fashioned characters, set at the time of Cromwell’s old-... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Green Snake @ C Venues
Watching two exquisitely dressed women perform a dialogue in a language one cannot begin to imagine to dream to understand two words of, is an interesting ex... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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The 56 @ Underbelly, Bristo Square
FYSA Theatre provide an untold look into the Bradford City Fire in The 56 through a verbatim performance using interviews from three survivors. The title si... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Frank Sent Me @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Em-Lou Productions brings Edinburgh Fringe dark comedy in the form of Frank Sent Me, unravelling the tale of Howe, a mafia enforcer who knows his boss Frank... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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I’m not Pale, I’m Dead @ Assembly Hall
One-woman show I’m not Pale, I’m Dead is a simple piece that unfolds from a single premise: what would you tell an Edinburgh Fringe audience if, ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Wingman @ Pleasance Dome
Seeing Wingman is like witnessing a hilarious adult rendition of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, and Richard Marsh adds to that the ch... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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The Zulu @ Assembly Hall
Mbongeni Ngema challenges his audience’s ears in The Zulu: an oral history of the Zulu kingdom and its political turmoils, culminating in the battle of... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Keeping Abreast @ Assembly George Square Studios
City Theatre Dublin would like you to fondle your breasts. Go on, put your hands on them. Not having breasts is no excuse. Now have a squeeze. Found somethin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014