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Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Howard Brenton's iconoclastic historical drama is a hands-down crowd-pleaser

(4 stars)9 May 2012

You can see why the original Globe theatre production of Anne Boleyn sold out, and why Howard Brenton’s iconoclastic re-imagining of Henry VIII’s second wife was subsequently sent on a tour of the UK: the show is a hands down, no-arguments…

HOT 100 2011 - 49 to 1

Hot 100 2011 - No. 49 to 1

The definitive list of Scottish creative talent

16 Dec 2011

The Hot 100 is the definitive list of Scottish creative talent. From fashion designers to performance artists, everyone who has made a sizeable splash in 2011 has a place in this countdown. It’s for people who’ve created a buzz, but it’s also about…

Frances Ruffelle: Beneath the Dress

Frances Ruffelle: Beneath the Dress

Cheeky, sexy and surprising cabaret-esque show

(3 stars)23 Aug 2010

Given Ruffelle’s showbiz background – she’s the daughter of London theatre school founder Sylvia Young and a Tony Award-winning star of West End and Broadway musicals such as Les Misérables and Chicago – it’s unsurprising that her cabaret-esque Fringe…

Lovelace: A Rock Musical

Lovelace: A Rock Musical

Respectful tribute to the Deep Throat porn star

(4 stars)10 Aug 2010

This rock opera goes a long way to rescuing its subject, Linda Boreman, from the ignominy of being forever associated with her screen persona, Linda Lovelace, and the 1972 porn film Deep Throat. The film made history for being the first to become a…

Morecambe

Morecambe

Show-stopping comic tribute

(4 stars)10 Aug 2009

This funny-sad account of the life and death of the man who was dubbed Britain’s ‘comedian of the century’ is already a big hit with Fringe crowds. It’s fair to assume that the prospect of seeing the late, great Eric Morecambe brought back to life on…

Beautiful Burnout - knockout collaboration a success on all fronts

Beautiful Burnout - knockout collaboration a success on all fronts

Raging bulls come to the Fringe

(4 stars)8 Aug 2010

The new play about aspiring young boxers by Bryony Lavery (author of last year’s Kursk and Tony award nominee for Frozen) is a heavy-hitter in more ways than one. It’s a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly that…

Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens

Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens

A rich performance of moving, entertaining tales

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

Having taken his celebrated one-man show The Mystery of Charles Dickens around the world, British thesp Simon Callow is no stranger to the Victorian writer and philanthropist. Here, Callow performs his second solo Dickens show under the sure-handed…

Michael Barrymore

Surviving Spike

The tortured genius behind the inspired comic lunacy

31 Jul 2008

Surviving Spike promises to reveal the ‘tormented character that hid behind the public facade’. Audiences could be forgiven for assuming the blurb refers to the show’s star, Michael Barrymore, whose career was all but destroyed by revelations of the…

The Hot 100 2011: 100-40

The Hot 100 2011: 100-50

The definitive list of Scottish creative talent

16 Dec 2011

100: Gordon Ferris. Kilmarnock crime author makes good. The already packed Scottish crime writing field has finally found a bit of elbow room for another burgeoning talent. Joining the likes of Rankin, Brookmyre, McDermid and co is this Ayrshire-born…

Jus’ Like That!

Jus’ Like That!

Recreates Tommy Cooper's final performance

(4 stars)16 Aug 2011

Eschewing a biographical narrative, this show about stage magician and comedian Tommy Cooper simply recreates his final performance in all its balmy, cheeky glory. It’s a crowd-pleasing celebration of the utterly unique variety show talent, and Clive…

You Once Said Yes

You Once Said Yes

Exhilarating interactive experience

(4 stars)12 Aug 2011

This one-on-one interactive show is initially – and purposefully – disconcerting, but it swiftly becomes utterly thrilling, mysterious, funny and finally really quite sweet. It begins at Underbelly Cowgate, where single audience members are equipped for…

Edinburgh show Snails and Ketchup keeps focus on storytelling

Edinburgh show Snails and Ketchup keeps focus on storytelling

Darkly comic story told through aerial choreography

27 Jul 2011

‘For me the narrative and the characters are crucial,’ says Glasgow-based Singaporean physical theatre performer Ramesh Meyyappan. ‘I’ve got to be able to see how their journeys would work in a theatrical setting.’ Meyyappan’s set himself quite a…

The Virtuous Burglar

The Virtuous Burglar

A clever and lively performance and beautiful design: a winner

(4 stars)11 Aug 2010

This splendid production of Dario Fo’s farce is a joy from start to finish. When a cat burglar breaks into an apartment he unwittingly precipitates a crisis involving himself, his suspicious wife and three adulterous couples. It’s a clever pastiche of…

Wolf

Wolf

Richly atmospheric exploration of human-wolf relations

26 Jul 2010

Inspired by current proposals to reintroduce wolves into the Scottish highlands (the last wolf north of the border was killed back in 1769), the debut production by director Kath Burlinson’s Authentic Artistic Collective (drawing performers from Cirque…

Life studies

Life studies - Biographical shows at the Edinburgh Festival 2009

Five of the best biographical shows at this year’s Fringe

22 Jul 2009

A Tribute – Gielgud’s Ages of Man Experience Shakespeare via Johnny Gielgud in this celebration of the late great actor’s crowning achievement: his one-man recital of excerpts from the best of the Bard. Performed throughout the 1950s and 60s, the…

The Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers

Conquest of flight given lively treatment

(3 stars)16 Aug 2011

An interesting subject is given lively treatment in this show about American bicycle manufacturers-turned-amateur aviators Wilbur and Orville Wright’s conquest of the skies. The story of their protracted attempts to construct a powered flying machine…

2401 Objects

2401 Objects

Remarkable neuroscience story

(3 stars)8 Aug 2011

This piece of devised theatre tells the story of the man with the most famous brain in the world, Henry Molaison, or patient HM as he became known to the international medical community that studied him for decades before he died. Molaison was born in…

Wondrous Flitting

Wondrous Flitting

Absurdist parable that doesn’t quite work

(2 stars)8 Aug 2011

Inspired by Edinburgh College of Art teacher Ed Hollis’ book The Secret Lives of Buildings, Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson’s first play for the Fringe since his much lauded Moving Objects is an absurdist-realist parable that doesn’t quite work.

One Night Stan

One Night Stan

Excellent one-man show based on life of Stan Laurel

(4 stars)8 Aug 2011

This excellent one-man show written and performed by Miles Gallant dramatises the life of Stanley Jefferson aka Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame. With his partner taken ill on the penultimate week of their 1954 UK tour, Stan looks back on his…

One Under

One Under

Energetic piece of devised theatre based on London Underground

(3 stars)8 Aug 2011

Inspired by interviews conducted on the London Underground, this energetic piece of devised theatre looks beneath the sweat and stress of the cramped carriages to unearth the inner lives of people travelling on the tube. Their stories are variously…

Adrian Howells bring May I Have the Pleasure and The Pleasure of Being to 2011 Edinburgh Festival

Adrian Howells bring May I Have the Pleasure to 2011 Edinburgh Festival

Adrian Howells creates exchange between performer and audience

27 Jul 2011

Glasgow-based performer and the Arches artist-in-residence Adrian Howells has two shows debuting at the Fringe this year: May I Have the Pleasure...? and The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding. In the first, Howells muses upon the irony of…

Too Middle Class for Chlamydia

Too Middle Class for Chlamydia

Fairly pedestrian – not to mention misogynist

(2 stars)25 Aug 2010

Curiously, this one-man show in which a young middle class lad recalls the variously difficult girls he’s been romantically involved with is delivered as a comic monologue, though the material is probably better suited to a stand-up routine. A few…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Critical commentary on mankind's hypocrisy

(4 stars)23 Aug 2010

Writer/actor Pip Utton follows his challenging one-man shows Adolf, Chaplin and Bacon with another deftly scripted and vividly performed drama, this one about Victor Hugo’s deformed Parisian bell-ringer. Taking the form of a monologue delivered by…

Naked Live and Never Again: My Last Discourse on Dramatic Method

Naked Live and Never Again: My Last Discourse on Dramatic Method

Witty monologue about an acting guru

(4 stars)23 Aug 2010

Andrew Hawkins (son of veteran British actor Jack, star of Zulu and Ben Hur) gives a terrific performance in this witty monologue. Hawkins plays an acting guru named Jack Treadwell who, having had enough of coaching celebrities and politicians, is…

The Flat

The Flat

Spirited if amateurish production

(2 stars)16 Aug 2010

The typical domestic dysfunction endured by a group of young people sharing a flat in London explodes into something altogether more disturbing with the arrival of a new flatmate, an apparently shy Goth girl who has some serious anger management issues.

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