Fringe
World’s smallest whisky bar opens for Fringe
THE world’s smallest whisky bar has opened in the Scottish capital ahead of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A former police telephone box on the corner of Hope Street and Shandwick Place has been turned into a tiny bar by whisky bottler Cask 88. There’s only enough room inside for one bartender and one guest. The…
Read MoreFun Lovin’ Crime Writers at the Fringe
THE Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers – a band made up of tartan noir authors – is preparing to play four shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The super group – which consists of Mark Billingham, Chris Brookmyre, Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Stuart Neville, and Luca Veste – play “songs about murder and death”. Its covers…
Read MoreThe show will go on thanks to Fringe funding
FRESH funding for 13 Edinburgh Festival Fringe producers means “the show will go on” this summer. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is distributing nearly £1.3 million through its Fringe 2022 Resilience Fund. The Scottish Government’s Platforms for Creative Excellence (PLACE) programme had awarded almost £1.6m to the society. The remaining £305,000 will support the society’s…
Read MoreReviews: Madhouse
This play, Madhouse, was like being in a student house, chaotic and disruptive. The setting is a kitchen table and the themes explored include the usual travails of student life, pregnancy, sexual orientation confusion, debt, self harm and the ultimate crime of student communal living, sleeping with a fellow flat mate. At times amusing with…
Read MoreReview: Love in the Time of Lockdown
I think the response to this play will reflect what sort of time you had during the height of the lockdown, awful for us all I know, but for some it was less so and for others it was a truly hellish experience. This play reflects the various degrees of hell suffered by us all.…
Read MoreRead our latest reviews from the Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh’s festivals are back with a bang in 2021, having been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak in 2020. As ever, Scottish Field is out and about at various shows, and here we have collected our various reviews from shows in 2021. Madhouse Afterparty Love in the Time of Lockdown Looks Like We Made It…
Read MoreReview: Looks Like We Made It
Looks Like We Made It is a modern musical set to Barry Manilow’s songs. It opens in the year 2020 in a marriage counsellors office where a couple, Mandy (Jackie Kennedy) and Tony (Katie Fay) describe the rather desolate state of their marriage. The show then goes retrospective covering the years between 2005 and 2020.…
Read MoreReview: A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir
Try to imagine Agatha Christie meets Fawlty Towers, well if you can’t you should go and see A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir. If you can imagine that combination, you should also go and see this show as you won’t be disappointed. It is a chaotic and amusing British farce paying homage to yesteryear…
Read MoreReview: Blind Mirth presents Sex and Me
I’ve always had admiration for stand up comics, it’s a dangerous and unpredictable business when you let the audience participate too. Comedy improvisation show Blind Mirth presents Sex and Me consists of a troupe of seven artists, each artist has the skills of a stand up comic but very successful, wittily and amusingly come together…
Read MoreReview: Smile (like you’re happy)
Smile (like you’re happy) explores the impact of social media on individuals and their inter – relationships. But with this huge subject to be covered in an hour there is always the possibility of never quite exploring and doing justice to anyone of the myriad problems that can be associated with participating on social media.…
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