Fringe
Johnnie Walker is just the ticket for the Fringe
With the countdown to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe well and truly on, Johnnie Walker is going to make the experience even more special for lucky festival-goers. From today (Wednesday 31 July) those who purchases Fringe tickets online or via telephone will be in with a chance of winning a host of Johnnie Walker and Fringe-themed…
Read MoreMusical show in a venue made entirely from pianos
A new musical theatre show is to premiere at the Fringe – in the world’s first amphitheatre built entirely out of pianos. I Piano is a new music theatre show for kids (ages 4+) that freely interweaves drama with virtuoso piano playing, and spell-binding shadow puppetry with audience interaction. It premieres in a China-UK joint…
Read MoreWhen DNA, Brexit, history and diversity collide
Debuting at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is TERRAtory, a dual timeline modern play with a tribal twist. Essex girls with DNA tests results, tribal chiefs and conquistadors coming ashore at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Writer Elissa Nicholson’s TERRAtory is set in a 21st century Essex laden with political bias, campaign trail ethnic and cultural…
Read MoreThe Shark is Broken tells the untold story of Jaws
The world premier of a play based on the diaries of film star Robert Shaw about the making of Jaws is to take palce at the Fringe. The late movie star’s son Ian and Joseph Nixon have written The Shark Is Broken, a hilarious snapshot in a behind the scene look at Steven Spielberg’s career…
Read MoreTwo Hearts on the Comeback Tour at the Fringe
New Zealand’s most bombastic musical comedy duo, Two Hearts, are back for a comeback tour – at the Fringe Festival. With a brand-new arena pop concert (not in an actual arena, it’s more of a leaky bridge temporarily converted into a small theatre), The Comeback Tour is jam-packed with more world-changing sex jams, more distractingly…
Read MoreA fun show which will appeal to families
A mad-cap adventure story for all the family is coming to the Fringe in Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency. When Dexter’s mum is sent to jail for getting mixed up in a jewellery robbery, it’s up to Dexter and Winter to get her out. On their journey to uncover the truth and free mum, their…
Read MoreGrime, hip hop and theatre in Canary and the Crow
What’s it like to be a working class black kid at a prestigious grammar school? It’s the subject of a new grime and hip hop-inspired show from the award-winning Middle Child, heading to the Paines Plough Roundabout at Summerhall this August. The Canary and the Crow is lyrical, semi-autobiographical gig theatre from performer and debut…
Read MoreA tale of two sisters at the Fringe
The story of two sisters who make different choices in life feature in Daughterhood at the Fringe. One sister stayed at home to care for their dad, the other set out to ‘make a difference’. Reunited under their childhood roof, Pauline and Rachel unearth more than the 10 years between them. It’s a huge gap.…
Read MoreNational Museum of Scotland’s fringe benefits
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back at the National Museum of Scotland. Three fun-filled Friday nights of Fringe entertainment, the return of Gilded Balloon at the Museum, daily live pop-up music performances and this summer’s five-star exhibition Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland will feature in a packed programme of Edinburgh Festival Fringe events…
Read MoreIssue of Class at the heart of Scottee’s Fringe show
Critically acclaimed playwright, actor, broadcaster and activist, Scottee, has announced his forthcoming new show Class. It will make its debut at Assembly during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August before heading to HOME in Manchester this October. Class is the third and final show in a triptych of works which began in 2013 with The…
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