Posts Tagged ‘fringe’
Fringe Review: Taiwan Season: Since 1984
Megan Amato reviews Taiwan Season: Since 1984 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I CAN always count on Taiwan Season to bring a thoughtful and outstanding range of acts to the Edinburgh Fringe and #Since1994 proved to be no exception. On the surface, this circus/physical theatre is visually stunning. The strength of each performer is demonstrated…
Read MoreFringe Review: Stampdown Comedy Night
Richard Bath reviews Stampdown Comedy Night at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. SHOCKINGLY shite. Truly execrable. Peerlessly rubbish. In quarter of a century of attending numerous comedic shows at each Fringe, I’ve seen some right old tosh. Yet nothing comes close to matching the sheer teeth-grinding horror of this mind-sappingly puerile waste of time and money…
Read MoreFringe review: Tending
Jeremy Welch reviews Tending at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Normally when the NHS is mentioned it is conjoined to those that want it restructured, those that want more funding and those that think nurses are saints or not. All this narrative is usually underpinned by entrenched political views. So it was with some nervousness that…
Read MoreFringe reviews: The Greatest Show Songs
Jeremy Welch reviews The Greatest Show Songs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. On arrival I was expecting a wide age range of attendees but it would seem that this show has a large groupie following of silver haired West End aficionados. It felt slightly like arriving on a SAGA cruise holiday, which was a shame…
Read MoreFringe review: My Neighbours Are Kind Of Weird
When entering a venue for an hour-long self-proclaimed witty and wry look at millennial culture, with a side salad of hypocrisy and narcissism, one arrives with a heavy heart. One was wrong though. This was a thoroughly enjoyable comedic excursion that fused universally good performances from all five young actors, and some admirably taut script-writing…
Read MoreFringe review: Salty Irina
Jeremy Welch reviews Salty Irina at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is set in some non-defined Northern European city where there have been a series of murders, all the murdered are foreigners, all recent immigrants. Irina, played by Yasemin Ozdemir, arrives at her apartment and the steps are steeped in blood, obviously the result…
Read MoreIl Wol Dang on traditional Korean music at the Fringe
Megan Amato talks to band Il Wol Dang about traditional Korean music, jazz and the message they hope to spread. ‘Do you know BTS?’ asked Lee Ju-hang, her question followed by the immediate laughter of her three band members, manager and myself. Indeed, it would be more of a challenge to find someone who hasn’t…
Read MoreFringe review: Maki Me Laugh
This is one of the more eccentric ideas I’ve encountered at the Fringe (which is a high bar). The idea is that while diners eat at Yo! sushi restaurant opposite the Mound on Princes Street, stand-up comedian Maddy Lucy Dann does her set. There are microphones hidden around every table which measure the level of mirth…
Read MoreFringe review: Mr and Mrs Love
Jeremy Welch reviews Mr and Mrs Love at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was a serendipitous moment when I fell across this cabaret show and I’m delighted to have seen it. The show is a musical rom com combining music as wide ranging as Greig’s piano Concerto in A minor through West Ends show hits…
Read MoreFringe Review: Ctrl Room
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…
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