Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh 2013: Carey Marx/ Sam Lloyd: Fully Committed/ BaconfaceWednesday, 14 August 2013
Carey Marx, Gilded Balloon **** Carey Marx couldn't come to the Fringe last year, because of the small matter of having a heart attack. But, looking on the bright side, the experience has given him his new show, Intensive Carey, in which the... Read more... |
Edinburgh 2013: Gyles Brandreth/ Airnadette/ Benny BootMonday, 12 August 2013
Gyles Brandreth, Pleasance Courtyard ***This is an agreeable hour of theatre and political anecdotes that former MP and now BBC presenter Gyles Brandreth tells with great aplomb. He drops a lot of names, but he's very good mimic – John Gielgud,... Read more... |
Edinburgh 2013: Ban This Filth!Sunday, 04 August 2013
If the past week or so has proven anything, it’s that feminism in 2013 has lost none of its power to inspire, anger and enthrall. Given the nature of the abuse meted out to those who raise their voices above the chorus, for Alan Bissett to turn his... Read more... |
Black Cat CabaretThursday, 10 January 2013
A new Friday-night cabaret club opens tomorrow at the fabled Café de Paris in London's Leicester Square. The Grade II-listed venue's subterranean ballroom, where Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra and Noël Coward once performed, will be home to Black... Read more... |
Michael Mittermeier, Soho TheatreFriday, 12 October 2012
There must be something on the air; a few foreign comics (including Edinburgh Comedy Awards newcomer winner Daniel Simonsen) were performing in English at this year's Edinburgh Fringe and now one of them, Germany's Michael Mittermeier, has brought... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: James Acaster/David Trent/Daniel Simonsen/Ben TargetSaturday, 25 August 2012
James Acaster: Prompt, Pleasance Courtyard *** James Acaster has certainly been studying his craft since he made his Fringe debut with an unmemorable show last year, and it shows in Prompt. Lots of comedy tropes are utilised, some of them to... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Tony LawFriday, 24 August 2012
Tony Law: Maximum Noonsense, The Stand Tony Law, Canadian by way of Trinidad and Tobago, has been kicking around the comedy circuit for several years with a style of madcap humour that many have delighted in but others have found self-... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Alfie Moore/Eddie Pepitone/Claudia O'DohertyWednesday, 22 August 2012
Alfie Moore: I Predicted a Riot, Pleasance Courtyard **** There can't be many serving police officers doing stand-up comedy at the Fringe, so that makes Alfie Moore an unusual beast. Actually he's a one-off, a wonderfully engaging bloke in a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: I, Tommy/Josie Long/WitTankTuesday, 21 August 2012
I, Tommy, Gilded Balloon **** Everybody will be familiar with Tommy Sheridan's story, and not necessarily because they closely follow Scottish politics at their most internecine. Rather because the Glaswegian socialist went from being barely a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Jigsy/Pappy's/Joe LycettSunday, 19 August 2012
Jigsy, Assembly Rooms **** Les Dennis may have started his career as a comic, and then as a presenter of cheesy, family-friendly television game shows, but of late he has been plying his trade as a very decent actor. And so it proves again in... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Magnus BetnerSaturday, 18 August 2012
Magnus Betner, Assembly Rooms **** Here is the news: dismemberment, suicide bombers, industrial-strength Japanese porn, paedophilia and the descent of Julian Assange from hero to zero. The son of a priest and a superstar in his homeland,... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Liam Mullone/Sarah Kendall/Iszi LawrenceFriday, 17 August 2012
Liam Mullone: A Land Fit For Fuckwits, Stand 4 **** Liam Mullone might perform his hour of clever, quietly simmering stand-up flanked by a faithful toy raccoon called Mr Eek, but there’s nothing fluffy about his material. Mullone targets... Read more... |
