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Continue reading →: Kuan-Wen Huang-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.Andrews Are The Worst according to Chartered Accountant and Taiwanese Comedian Kuan-Wen Huang. You have been warned, so proceed with caution into this comedy show if your name is Andrew he will seek you out and ask you to state your case that you’re not the worst! Two of Huang’s…
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Continue reading →: The Political Life of Philomena McGuiness-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.This is a beautifully written and well-crafted story by Joshua King is performed brilliantly by actress and comedian Jasmin Gleason. Philomena is one of the estimated 11% of Irish women who helped Britain during the war effort and in the aftermath. Born in 1918 we are given something of her…
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Continue reading →: Alex Prescot-Edinburgh Fringe 2025.Alex Prescot has had a busy Edinburgh Fringe. He is part of the five-star awarded A Jaffa Cake Musical and performing his solo show Cosy. Cosy comes complete with pillows to make sure the audience are comfortable and remains Cosy throughout the show. Alex begins by explaining that he was…
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Continue reading →: SE Festival is Back for 2025.Engage with us SE Fest is back! SE Fest is a theatre festival based in southeast London to promote and celebrate new writing. It is hosted for the second year by two neighbouring venues, The Jack Studio in Crofton Park and The Bridge House Theatre in Penge, two award-winning theatres with a reputation for supporting and presenting…
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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…


















