As the hotels, pubs, cafes and landlords reflected on another profitable Edinburgh Fringe, the last of the trains were leaving town packed with performers nursing their losses and wondering whether they could afford to do it again next year.
Andy Moseley
A glimpse behind the glamour of Hollywood
The Girl Who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign (rating 3/5) Based on a true story, this is a one-woman show about Evie Edwards, an aspiring actress dreaming of making it big in Hollywood in the 1950s. It opens with Edwards on the H of the sign, looking down. The question is how she ended up […]
Misery makes for a great one-hour comedy set
Dylan Moran has given up drinking. It’s a new world for him and he doesn’t like it.
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 […]