The quantity of dance theatre being showcased at the Fringe has increased notably over the past few years, melding performance with music and rhythm, becoming accessible to a larger audience, which in turn fuels interest in becoming involved. Whilst high profile acts and productions such as Riverdance and Stomp have fulfilled the mainstream audience, smaller [...]

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John Ryan is not your normal comedian. He’s smart enough not to breeze into the Edinburgh Fringe wiv ‘is cockney accent, full of ‘geeza’s and ‘kna wha ah mean’s, and take the piss outta the Jocks. He doesn’t take the stage at 3am to try and placate drunken yobs baying for blood, nor does he [...]

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Les Enfants Terrible portray a self-penned story, a dark and brooding monologue about a bleak future for the worlds population, where a deranged politician attempts to solve the exploding population problem by aging all the children to adulthood.
Peppered with slight musical accompaniment and interluded with black and white film shots, it’s a great example of [...]

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“Yippee Kai Aye Motherfucker!”. I’ve been singing the refrain of Willard Morgan’s Hollywood Cowboy all night, for his Saint Hollywood is full of similarly catchy hooks and phrases that will stay with you long into the small hours.
This pastiche on fame in the US of A looks at the highlights and lowlifes of Los Angeles, [...]

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Pity poor Gordon Southern and his percussive accomplice, for they are the ones who have set themselves the task of moving a drum kit between the Gilded Balloon Teviot and the spectacularly hidden, dark, dank and smelly Caves of South Niddry Street on a daily basis. It would have been very easy (and dull) for [...]

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Suffering from a bit of a misnomer, Mike Hatchard’s musical interlude represents a little escape from the hubbub of South Bridge. His first festival show away from his stage name, the artist-formerly-known-as Marvin Hanglider provides an hour of lounge style, sub-cabaret piano and vocals in several different directions. Tonight, we are treated to some modern [...]

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Take a brief walk around Teviot at 6.30 one evening and you’re sure to see some people with a strange look on their faces. It’s a look of intense concentration, combined with a little bewilderment and shock, but mostly astonishment. These are the looks on the faces of the people who have just witnessed Dominic [...]

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For one awkward initial moment, the audience wonders whether they’re in the right show. A deep, booming voice announces the arrival of Death as a young man steps through the gloom and onto the stage, striking a threatening pose, aided no end by the lighting on stage and some seriously disturbing eye shadow. He holds [...]

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Two New Zealanders take the stage late in the evening, deep in the Gilded Balloon Caves, armed with microphones, guitars, a xylophone, a dancing flower and a back catalogue of tuneful and witty melodies. Yes, these boys are on a mission to entertain, and to use the word ‘folk’ as much as humanly possible.
They begin [...]

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Hairline caught Janey last year as part of the regular line up of Scotland’s Best and Guests in the Underbelly, and despite being a little scared at the time, we ventured back to see her one-woman show, Caught in the Act.
Yes, scared, and probably a bit intimidated also. You see, Janey is a Glaswegian comic, [...]

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