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Continue reading →: Weather Girl by Brian Watkins.
Weather Girl offers an upbeat and over glossed impression into the life of the Californian Weather Girl Stacey played by the multi-talented Julia McDermot. The heat is rising and the sun is shining. Life under the polished veneer image that Weather Girl attempts to portray is a life being fuelled…
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Continue reading →: Wish you were here by Without Compromise Theatre.
Wish You Were Here written by Michael Johnson looks at relationships, life choices and drug and alcohol addiction. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe by new Scottish theatre company Without Compromise Theatre the play focuses on the damage these do to people’s lives and the struggle to remain clean once you…
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Continue reading →: Journey to Long Nose by Rachel Pollock.
A heartwarming verbatim performance written and performed by Rachel Pollock in Journey to Long Nose. A heartfelt look into her journey of discovery. She defies anyone in Edinburgh to have a longer nose than hers and is happy to be proved wrong. Pollock questions where are we really from? Who…
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Continue reading →: Joe Thomas:Rule Breaker.
For fans of the popular television comedy series The Inbetweeners catching one on the four main characters doing live is great. Joe Thomas: Rule Breaker offers an insight into his everyday life and touches on the video diary the cast were asked to make during the filming of The Inbetweeners…
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Continue reading →: The Duchess of Buckingham Regrets to Inform You That Her Husband is Dead by Ruckus Theatre Company.
The audience are transported back to August 1815 and the Duchess of Buckingham has an announcement to make about her husband in The Duchess of Buckingham Regrets to Inform You That Her Husband is Dead. However, this news is met with delight by most of the family, who appear to have…
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Continue reading →: And I’ll Blow Your House Down by Georgie Steele.
Georgie Steel enters on stage as a Fairy Godmother to grant all your wishes but very soon reveals the Georgi behind the costume: a mother of 2 sons with disabilities, unpaid carer for 19 years. To quote Georgie’s own words “Fairy Tale or Pigging Nightmare”Via the telling of The Three…
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Continue reading →: Singin’ I’m No A Billy He’s A Tim by Des Dillon.
Jade McDonald in the role of Celtic Fan Tim finds herself banged up and waiting for her release money to hopefully be paid. With all the other cells full, Rangers supporter Dionne Frati, Billie has put into share a cell with Tim in the well-known Scottish play Singin’ I’m No…
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Continue reading →: Birthday Fish by Erin Hughes and Stephanie Burnell.
Birthday Fish offers a dark horror based physical performance, where two friends disappear together upstairs to take a breather from the party downstairs which from the sound in the background is in full swing. Erin Hughes and Stephanie Burnell work closely together on stage. Their rapport is especially tight during…
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Continue reading →: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical … and Helen.
The Coilly Dart Theatre Group brought their musical about the life and works of Helen Carte with the Gilbert and Sullivan production company to the Edinburgh Fringe. Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical…Helen is a tribute to the work of an almost forgotten person in the famous musical franchise, who…
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Continue reading →: Bake Off: The Great British Pantomime.
It’s Pantomime time at Greenside at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. What better choice than Bake Off: The Great British Pantomime the popular television show that has inspired the panto, four places are set for the bakers to start the final with pastry week In traditional Bake Off style, the…











