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Continue reading →: Colours Run-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.Ruaraidh Murray as Pongo is a brooding and violent Hibs football casual who may or may not have just murdered a rival hearts supporter. Murray, with his closely cropped hair and Stone Island jumper delivers a believable performance that becomes more unsettling as the play goes on. There has to…
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Continue reading →: A Bad Taste Show-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.A Bad Taste Show offers a selection of comedy sketches that border on and crossover into bad taste. Although apparently on the day I saw it the audience was quieter than in previous ones. I thought they appreciated the “bad taste” humour and were laughing. The selection is funny and…
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Continue reading →: 1902-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.It’s a Saturday night in Easter Road, and various Hibs supporters are filing into the Hibernian Supporters Club. While football plays are becoming more common at the Fringe in recent years, it’s fair to say that 1902 remains a standout. I first saw it several years ago at the Wee…
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Continue reading →: When We Were Young-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.Based on a true story When We Were Young is set in Glasgow during the 1990s where crime and gang culture were rife. Families and friends were left heartbroken by the devastating impact that knife crime had on them and the rest of the community. When We Were Young starts…
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Continue reading →: Make it Happen-Edinburgh International Festival 2025.An elderly Edinburgh woman filing her way into the Festival Theatre is describing Fred Goodwin as “Scotland’s Gordon Gekko” referring to the vile character played by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987). Sandy Grierson is excellent as Fred Goodwin, drawing on the banking villain’s Paisley roots. Ferguslie Park…
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Continue reading →: The Ego-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.Zoo Playground played host to actors Verona Verbakel and Anemone Valcke performing The Ego. It isn’t a conventional production and at first I thought it was about their “ego” oh how wrong I was. The duo shared stories about the industry and the abusive situations they found themselves in under…
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Continue reading →: Flat 4-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.The Outhouse Bar Loft room was part of the PHB Free Fringe. It’s not a typical Theatre space, it is exactly what Fringe Theatre is about. The writer, director and producer of this incredible piece of theatre is Isabel Songer. University is meant to be a coming-of-age life-changing experience. Students…
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Continue reading →: MJ Hibbett-Interviews for Lambeth Fringe.Caught up with MJ Hibbett ahead of their show ‘Data and Doctor Doom’ at Arch 555 @ Silly Towers on Saturday 11 October. What was the inspiration behind your show? ‘Data and Doctor Doom’ is a musical adaptation of my PhD thesis, which uses Marvel’s Doctor Doom as case…
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Continue reading →: Del Valle: A true tale of sex, drugs, rock n’ roll…and redemption-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.The Sex Pistols are currently enjoying a successful tour without frontman Johnny Rotten and the late albeit, iconic Sid Vicious. The bass player has become iconic since his death in 1979. Tall and cartoonish with his black spiky hair, snarling lip, and drainpipe jeans, Vicious has become the ultimate image…
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Continue reading →: Sex and God-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.Four Door Theatre brought Sex and God by Linda McClean to the Edinburgh Fringe. A powerful and moving play that is designed to be thought-provoking. Everyone will know one of these characters as attitudes haven’t progressed as much as they should. The cast of four ladies brings a different story…
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