Fringe Review – Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (rating: 5/5) This is an improv show where the audience is invited to suggest, settings, themes and styles for a musical that hasn’t yet been written. MC Dylan Emery, who has a 15-year pedigree in performing and directing improv and also chairs Radio 4’s Showstoppers’ series, sets things […]
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How I lost my way in the corridors of power
Rab McNeil’s Week I like to keep abreast of developments at the old Scotsman building on Edinburgh’s North Bridge, where I spent many years in grinding toil leavened by moral relativism and existential doubt. Here, I first discovered that there was no god. All that aside, we read on this very website that the old […]
Vlad’s top tips: six must-see comedy shows
Double Scottish Comedy award winner Vladimir McTavish offers his tips for comedy shows to see in Edinburgh this weekend RAYMOND MEARNS Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, Grassmarket 6pm Raymond Mearns is one of the most inventive and consistently funny comedians on the Scottish comedy circuit, and a Fringe stalwart since the turn of […]
Rock ‘n’ roll stroll through a classic catalogue
Fringe review: Movin’ Melvin Brown – Chuck Berry Lives! (rating: 3/5) Growing up in racially-segregated America, Melvin Brown used his music to help break down social barriers. In the process he became a huge admirer of another talented musician who took the same route out of the ghetto: Chuck Berry. Berry wrote mainly about women […]
Classic dancing with a comedic twist
Fringe Review – Tutu (rating: 4/5) Ballet is not for everyone but I love the athleticism, and these six guys are finely tuned dancers. They are classically trained but they totally take the P out of dancing. This is a show which capitalises on the discipline, but incidentally makes comedy out of it. In any […]