Corpus Christi retells the life of Jesus Christ and whilst it does not lose any of the meaning or passion of the original it successfully adds new layers of humanity. This humanisation of the divine is where the controversy surrounding this play lies as Jesus, or Joshua (James Brandon) as he is renamed in the [...]

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It happens once a year: we all gather around in one room, with our flags and our badges, knowing that what we are about to see is a show full of European pop-trash, over the top campness and sarcastic comments from the one and only Terry Wogan. It is the Eurovision Song Contest, and as [...]

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The Big Filling is an intriguing children’s play that is very enjoyable and full of completely off the wall ideas. It is a wonder how writers Ben James and Steve Pretty came up with the idea of combining film noir motifs such as the femme fatale, the smoke filled side walks and gangsters with the [...]

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Unlimited Theatre are the proud winners of last year’s Double Fringe first awards. Returning for only six very popular performances at the Underbelly, they spend the next hour explaining the future scientific possibilities that are available to the human race and just how we may grow to abuse them.
Director Jon Spooner, due to colleagues’ illnesses, [...]

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Andrew Maxwell is something of a comedy veteran, having won a string of awards and filling up his Fringe venues to maximum capacity for two years in a row. Well known as a staple fixture of the BBC’s Never mind the Buzzcocks’, he makes a triumphant return to the festival.
As he walks out he is [...]

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Craig Hill comes out on stage while Scissor Sister’s I Don’t Feel Like Dancing is playing on the sound system. He dances like Shakira, Vogues like Madonna, does some Scottish dancing, sings some tunes from Oliver and Evita and he does his own rendition of Petula Clark’s Downtown. They don’t come more camp than Craig [...]

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There are dozens of sketch shows littered through out the fringe, but Aeneas Faversham Returns is well above the competition. Aeneas Faversham Returns is a warped mix of the more unusual elements from The League of Gentlemen and stirring it into the Victorian world of mummy’s and the British. It’s an intriguing combination but it [...]

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Judging by the predominantly German audience our hosts are already preaching to the converted about the uniqueness of the German sense of humour and the fact that most British people assume they don’t have any. In saying that, it is an intriguing premise and also sort of a success. Henning When explains in his odd [...]

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Des Clarke might not be easily accessible for the international crowds. With his fast speech, strong Glaswegian accent and Scottish-based jokes, he might be hard to follow by the foreigners that populate Edinburgh during the summer. On the other hand though, he is pure joy for the Braveheart descendents.
His sharp tongue and cheeky humour are [...]

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Wil Hodgson is something of an acquired taste: young, overweight and sprouting a bright pink Mohawk with an overly tight fitting leopard print jacket, he walks onto the stage and complains about the rain and how it agitates him. It must have too, because Hodsgson then launches into his routine and without any regard to [...]

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