Featured Stories
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Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
27 November 2011 3:35 PM | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen.
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Review – Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
27 November 2011 2:15 PM | 1 CommentA couple of years ago the idea of Lenny Henry as a Shakespearean actor was a joke. No longer.
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Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
22 October 2011 9:50 AM | 4 CommentsA guest blog (guest blog!)
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Review – Simon Callow in Tuesdays at Tescos, Assembly Hall
20 August 2011 9:28 AM | 1 CommentWhat an embarrassing title. I'm embarrassed by it, and I'm not even Simon Callow. ★★
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Review – The Wheel, Traverse Theatre
14 August 2011 10:05 PM | No CommentsInteresting and technically excellent, but lacking in characters to care about. ★★★
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edfringe Archive
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Review – Daniel Sloss: Teenage Kicks, Pleasance Dome
Posted on September 3, 2009 | No CommentsRemember Family Fortunes? Well, we asked a hundred fringegoers on the Royal Mile what they knew about Daniel Sloss, and our survey saaaid: He’s 18 This is his third year at the Fringe Frankie Boyle thinks he’s funny But that’s not all. He’s also from... -
Review – Rhod Gilbert and the Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst, Pleasance Courtyard
Posted on August 31, 2009 | 1 CommentRhod Gilbert It won’t come as a surprise to Rhod Gilbert afficionados (Gilbertados, as they are known) that it hasn’t been a good year for the comic. After his 08 Fringe show, he was accused by the critics of focusing on daily annoyances at the... -
Edinburgh Fringe Picks – Part the Second
Posted on July 12, 2009 | No CommentsThe number of theatre shows has stayed broadly flat since last year’s fringe, but there’s once again been a sharp increase in the number of comics, with a staggering 775 acts performing this year. My thoughts below. Rhod Gilbert at Pleasance Courtyard The superbly funny... -
Edinburgh Fringe Picks – Part the First
Posted on July 6, 2009 | 1 Commentedfringe logo The Fringe. Where to start? 2098 shows, every young theatre company and comic in the country if not the world, descending on the Forth for an entire month, a festival of theatre and music and comedy and drunkenness. What to pick? A programme...
