Christmas has come early this year, and what a gift Johnny McKnight is giving us! McKnight has been a pantomime dame for more than 20 years and, in association with the National Theatre of Scotland (which is itself an endorsement), he takes us on an…
Marianne wants to be taken seriously, Hattie just wants to get drunk and Emma wants a husband, but when arrogant aristocrat Chester arrives they decide to hold a fake seance, with unexpected results. It’s fun but a little exhausting, especially as some of the dialogue…
For producer and champion of new writing Ellie Keel’s debut play stars not only Dawn Steele, star of the long-running TV series Monarch of the Glen, Wild at Heart and Holby City, but also James Robinson, whose first acting role was as the young William…
Ella’s life is a mess. She doesn’t take responsibility for anything. But deep down she wants to do the right thing, and when a plastic bottle from her schooldays turns up in Malaysia, doing the right thing includes recycling single use plastic. But in a…
The blurb said this show was about the Amazon rainforest and the generations of women who have fought to protect it, so I was expecting to hear about indigenous activists standing up to the corporations stripping their land for profit. But Gael Le Cornec’s solo…
Drawing From Life is on at 2.10pm (55 mins) until Aug 9 at theSpaceTriplex (Studio). www.thespaceuk.comPhotos: © Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society
That’s the message award-winning producer turned performer Mark Ashmore is bringing to this year’s Fringe. It’s a serious message, but before you stop reading, Ashmore’s not talking climate change. He’s talking about how we can adapt to it – because it’s already here. For the…
A Year and a Day is the story of Nathan, a man who, struck by a mysterious light, only lives for one day before being transported to the same date a year later. And so the pattern is repeated until, in reality, while he would…
What a thrill it was to see that Titan of stage and screen Brian Cox performing in Scotland once again. As the 18th century philosopher and economist Adam Smith’s somewhat playful ghost he was not on stage as much as I would have liked, but…
This ghostly tale, based on a true story, is tailor-made for the haunted city that is Edinburgh. Scotland is famous for its folk tales and superstitions and audiences get plenty of that in Ali Milles' supernatural thriller. Incantations, selkies (seal-human shapeshifters), talk of witches and…