Posts Tagged ‘edinburgh festival fringe’
FRINGE REVIEW: IMA (‘Pray’)
Rosie Morton reviews IMA at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. IMA (the Hungarian word for ‘pray’) is a spine-tingling circus experience from Budapest’s multi-award-winning Recirquel Cirque Danse company. It is a mixture of contemporary circus, dance and theatre in which a sole aerial performer takes centre stage. First, you are put into a sensory deprived, blue/grey room…
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Jeremy Welch reviews Ctrl Room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This is an immersive theatre production from Black Hound Productions. Think Crystal Maze and you’ll be along the right track. The scene is the battlefield of the future and the role of artificial intelligence in battle. The audience is separated into two different rooms by a…
Read MoreFringe Review: Everything Under The Sun
Jeremy Welch reviews Everything Under The Sun at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Dear Mother Africa, she bleeds. This play is written and directed by Highland writer Jack MacGregor, it is very well researched and his forensic eyes have turned the situation in Mali into a compelling drama. Mali? Where is it? What is happening there? These…
Read MoreFringe Review: Wiesenthal
Jeremy Welch reviews Wiesenthal at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Written by Tom Dugan and acted by Christopher Gibbs, this production is compelling. It takes place in Wiesenthal’s office just before his retirement. Gibbs plays Wiesenthal perfectly at the later stages of his working life, retiring he may be but the fire and dedication to track down…
Read MoreFringe Review: Warriors
Jeremy Welch reviews Warriors at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This production is outstanding theatre, theatre at its very best. Warriors tells the tale of three soldiers who have recently completed basic training at Colchester and are destined for a six month tour in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. When I first read that this storyline was going…
Read MoreFringe Review: Endless Sunset Oblivion
Jeremy Welch reviews Endless Sunset Oblivion at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This solo performance from Mike Baillie is similar to the Troubadours of France in the 12th Century. It combines poetry, narrative and music to tell the tale of Reuben. Reuben, a talented songwriter, has submerged into the swamp of social media and…
Read MoreFringe benefits: job highlights and horrors from the Edinburgh Festival
As the world’s biggest arts festival kicks off, some of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe performers have shared the lengths they have gone to in pursuit of the dream job. This year’s performers are full of stories and experiences that have helped them take a small step forward in pursuing their dream job at the…
Read More10 hidden gems at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
With the Edinburgh Festival Fringe just around the corner, here’s ten hidden gems that you might have missed from theSpaceUK. 1: Four Letter Words Why Am I Like This? Do you misplace your glasses so often that you now have six pairs so you aren’t trapped inside and half-blind? Follow Nicole on her 30-year…
Read MorePhoebe Waller-Bridge launches Fringe fund
WRITER Phoebe Waller-Bridge has launched a £100,000 fund this morning to help performers at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The fund is supported by individual donors, Fringe sponsor Edinburgh Gin, and Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag for Charity” campaign, named after her popular television series, which began life as a Fringe show. The new fund will distribute 50…
Read MoreFRINGE REVIEW: “Tom Lucy: Melt”
Tom Lucy: Melt – Venue 33 – Pleasance Courtyard – Upstairs – 9.45pm TOM LUCY delivered a very funny, very slick show. His material covered various issues facing a sensitive young man in his 20s, from father issues to appreciation of fine furniture to later life circumcision. There was a lot of family-centred material throughout,…
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