Edd Hedges: For Eva, From Forever Ago (Rating 4/5) Depending which statistics you read, the average Fringe audience is four people. On the second Thursday of the Fringe proper, Edd Hedges is playing to an audience only slightly above average. It’s the smallest crowd he’s played to, and it’s a great shame. Hedges is a […]
Memorable hour as Foot pushes the boundaries
Paul Foot: Image Conscious (rating 4/5) There are many comedians trying to do something different. Often the attempts at unique delivery come at the expense of the material, disguising weak jokes or half-formed routines. Paul Foot is an exception, and his show is one of the most memorable hours of stand-up on offer. It doesn’t […]
Powerful story of Jewish athletes at Hitler’s Olympics
Games – (rating 4/5) Henry Naylor has been called one of Britain’s best new playwrights, nominated for 33 international awards in the last three and a half years, several of which he has won. Games is his new play and it looks likely to increase his tally. It focuses on two athletes preparing for the […]
Shifting mood underplays tragi-comic tale
Come Die With Us (Rating 3/5) This one woman show, written and performed by Gillian Skye is about Laurel, a woman who does not realise she’s dead. The play begins with an interview for a job in a funeral home, and then moves through Lauren’s story told by Lauren, before a relative fills in the […]
A mysterious death with few theories explored
3000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae (Rating 2/5) The fundamental problem with Andy Paterson’s one-man show about anti-nuclear campaigner and SNP activist William MacRae, lies in the title. It suggests that the play is about MacRae’s death. The information in the fringe programme adds to this. By posing the question: ‘Was his death […]