Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe: Mies Julie/Loretta Maine/Foil, Arms and HogThursday, 16 August 2012
Mies Julie, Assembly Hall **** Miss Julie is pretty full-on at the best of times but in Yael Farber’s striking new version, Strindberg’s themes of class and gender are given a shocking modern makeover. In transposing the action to present-day... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Flap!, The Famous SpiegeltentTuesday, 14 August 2012
Towards the end of a ridiculously easy and enjoyable hour spent in their company, Flap!’s singer and ukulele player Jess Guille described “Rock in Space” as “jazz-folk-disco” – and, you know, it kind of was. A bawdy, slap-happy five-piece from... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Rosie WilbySunday, 12 August 2012
Rosie Wilby: How (Not) to Make it in Britpop, Bongo Club *** In the 1990s Rosie Wilby was lurking on the outer edges of Britpop with her band Wilby, whose giddy career highlights included opening for Tony Hadley (he evacuated the entire room... Read more... |
Tom Allen's Society, Udderbelly Festival LondonTuesday, 22 May 2012
The purple cow has taken up its summer residency on the South Bank in London before making the journey to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. As ever, the line-up of performers is extensive: last night comic Tom Allen performed his chat show with the... Read more... |
Cardinal Burns, E4Wednesday, 09 May 2012
It's always a pleasure to watch comics first seen and enjoyed playing a tiny room at the Edinburgh Fringe make their television debut; it's an even greater pleasure to see two immensely talented comics make such an accomplished entrée as Seb... Read more... |
Derek, Channel 4Friday, 13 April 2012
Ricky Gervais doesn't make it easy for critics or viewers. He has always pushed the boundaries of modern comedy with a cast of unlikeable characters, starting with his 11 O'Clock Show inquisitor to deluded fool David Brent in The Office and failed... Read more... |
Udderbelly London 2012 opensMonday, 09 April 2012The giant inflatable cow is open for business on London's South Bank and continues until 8 July. Many of the comedy, cabaret and circus gigs on its schedule are previews of shows going to the Edinburgh Fringe and among those appearing are Tim... Read more... |
Finnish exchange programme hits theatresMonday, 09 April 2012The Pleasance Theatre and Finland’s ACE Production are collaborating on an exchange programme for British theatres. ACE first came to Britain for 2010’s Edinburgh Festival and began talks with Anthony Alderson, director of The Pleasance Theatre,... Read more... |
Benet Brandreth, Soho TheatreFriday, 30 March 2012
Storytelling, they say, is an almost lost art. Well, not while Benet Brandreth is around, it's not. Brandreth, Sandhurst graduate and a lawyer by day, studied Philosophy at Cambridge and has packed rather a lot into his life, real or imagined. He... Read more... |
Alex Horne, Soho TheatreWednesday, 14 March 2012
In Seven Years in the Bathroom, which he premiered at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, Alex Horne attempts to shoehorn the average man's 79-year lifespan - in which he says a remarkable seven years is spent in the bathroom - into an hour's comedy. It's... Read more... |
Watson & Oliver, BBC TwoTuesday, 21 February 2012
Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver, purely by dint of being female, have a burden of expectation before they even open their mouths, as the ghosts of French and Saunders stalk the corridors of the BBC. It's horribly unfair to saddle the newcomers with... Read more... |
Adam Riches, Soho TheatreSunday, 19 February 2012
The journey from the Edinburgh Fringe to a UK tour or London residency can be a fraught one. What works in the context of the world's biggest and best arts festival, where even in established venues there's often a whiff of “let's do the show right... Read more... |
