Navigating the Fringe is always a matter of trial and error, so when you find something really special you want to shout it from the rooftops. Unfortunately, I only happened on this show a couple of days before it ends. But its message will stay…
If this site was called ukmusicnetwork.com this would be a music review. But it’s not and, besides, there is so much more to Queendoms Unplugged than just music. It’s a theatrical event, with singer, songwriter and composer Agadez, often bathed in purple light, weaving a…
Wild dancing and hillbilly music sets the scene for this powerful piece by a young company from North Carolina. Or does it? The American West has been ravaged by drought for the last six years and writer, director and founder of Center Heart Theater Company,…
Michelle Collins knows how to do resentful and vindictive. She’s been wreaking havoc as Cindy Beale in BBC’s EastEnders off and on for more than 30 years so she’s well practised.. But in this dark comedy we see different sides to her – as a…
We all know that theatre isn’t just about entertaining. Nor is it just about transporting us into a magical world. It’s a platform for addressing the issues of the day, and for getting people to think differently. In this year’s Fringe there is the usual…
Everyone must be a bit batty to put on their own show at the Fringe! To take the chance of attracting enough of an audience to pay for your venue and your accommodation among 3,000+ other shows is a crazy idea. Victoria Firth has even…
As a singer-songwriter, Karine Polwart has won many awards. But nothing prepared me for her gift as a storyteller. In Windblown she imagines what a palm, which has been contained in a glasshouse at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens for the last 200 years, is thinking…
The press release said this play was about ‘the onrushing climate apocalypse’. So, it’s no longer about climate change or even the climate crisis. It seems we are all doomed! And after seeing Flora Wilson Brown’s production I wonder what that ‘beautiful future’ is. Heaven?…
Lucie Barat began her show by asking for the lights to come back up and then addressed the audience directly. She told us, This is my story. It’s hard. Thereafter she brought forth all sorts of emotions in me? And questions? Was that a theatrical…
I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that Hot Mess is transferring to London after the Fringe. Its music and its performers are worthy of any West End stage. Again, it was no surprise that both performers, Danielle Steers and Tobias Turley, have both had…