Jukebox Theatre – the audience pays their money, chooses their show and takes their chances, whilst four young and capable actors guide them through a selection of American short plays. An interesting concept for sure, but with hit and miss results. Three shorts from this evening’s menu of ten are chosen and presented with enthusiasm, [...]

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If you’re walking past the Grindlay Street Garage at around 8pm sometime in the next week, you may be forgiven for having the impression that the sky may be about to fall on your head. Fear not, for it will hopefully just be the sound of ten pairs of feet, thirteen pairs of hands, some [...]

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Trading off slapstick comedy and the fact that it’s okay to make racist jokes if you’re an ethnic minority, especially if they’re about yourselves, the Naked Samoans show is ideally timed and located for big success this summer.
Upon St. Peters refusal to admit them to heaven (“he’s just an overrated bouncer”) the Samoans are shown [...]

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Maryann Devally is a recovering uberfan, a pop stalker in remission, and her one- woman show is part of her rehabilitation. And the therapy seems to be working, as she brushes off her fascination with the purple pop star to take us through her life of infatuation.
Often misquoting lyrics, dancing and singing, Maryann gets carried [...]

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Opening to a bastardised piano medley of soap opera theme tunes, C’s concept improvised soap opera begins its daily life with suggestions from the previous days attendees, featuring star struck barmaids, vindictive love feuds and the obligatory Aussie part time backpacker. Different guests from around the Fringe, enhancing the variety of individual performances, join the [...]

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Tribute Tina C’s top selling show is packing in the crowds, who soon realise that the show has little to do with questionable but hilarious repartee about the events of last September. Instead, we are slowly introduced to an alternative country and western diva with a failsafe means of promoting her material in the wake [...]

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New Zealand’s Rhys Darby has arguably travelled further than anyone to perform in Edinburgh, and thank god for low cost long haul flights, because his residency at Gilded Balloon Cave 3 is one of the hidden highlights of the Fringe. He bounds onstage, full of energy and a desire to please, quickly sets the audience [...]

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Alasdair Satchel paints a scene that most of us know too well. Late for work, for a stuck up loathsome employer, his day at the office going from bad to worse, he creates a series of mental diversions.
Kevin, his invisible friend ups and leaves for an impromptu holiday, leaving our overworked and undervalued employee to [...]

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A small audience is invited into the bedroom of one Sandy Nelson; a wooden panelled circular space, filled with modest musical instruments and huge talent and wit. Sandy proceeds to take us on a journey ridiculing the bland, mundane and downright rubbish of the popular music world. Musical satire has rarely been so good.
Under fire [...]

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The cynic in me thinks that Geoffrey Hayes starts wonderfully by playing, over and over again, Somewhere Over The Rainbow on a painfully lonely glockenspiel, both relaxing the mood and annoying the life and living soul out of the audience. An old man, dressed in black robes relishes the darkness, but reflects that rainbow fans [...]

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