Lucy Porter: Pass It On (rating 4/5) Lucy Porter is a comedian who knows her audience. Now officially a fringe veteran, she continues to draw large crowds and keeps her audience fully emerged in her reflections on day to day domesticity, the changes that middle age brings and how it will seem like a golden […]
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Razor sharp drama out of a political crisis
Brexit (rating 5/5) The gap between satire and reality can be dangerously close at times and watching Brexit it is easy to start feeling as if you are sitting in on high level Cabinet discussions with only the names changed to protect the guilty. It is set in a near future where the Ma(y)tron has […]
Interview: Brian Corcoran, Turing Festival
The basement floor of the EICC was teeming with activity, mainly t-shirted young things with the fresh-faced enthusiasm of a freshers’ week gathering.
Gospel tribute to Scots who fought US slavery
Fringe musical: Henry Box Brown New York gospel singers and Broadway actors from a new Edinburgh Fringe musical gathered around a statue of Abraham Lincoln and sang Amazing Grace in tribute to the Scots who fought against slavery in the American Civil War. Henry Box Brown is a musical based on the true story of an American […]
Tattoo reaches for the sky in celebration of flight
Military Tattoo: The Sky’s The Limit The Royal Military Tattoo will this year celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force and, for the first time, introduce laser technology to the showpiece event. More than 1,200 cast and crew will take part in nightly performances on the Castle Esplanade taking the audience on a journey […]