I’ve been making it a point to watch Seann Walsh at the Festival for a number of years now. It’s safe to say that the size of the venue he fills has grown incredibly in just a short period of time. However, his style of humour, which is deeply personal, hasn’t changed and remains just […]
Review of Adam Hills: Mess Around, Fringe 2012
How do you review a comedy show for which the comedian does not do a show? I sat down in the Rainy Hall, off the Mound, expecting to enjoy a set from the Australian talent Adam Hills. My expectations were quickly dashed; Hills announces, straight off, that there is no show. Hills has discovered that […]
Review of Domestic Science, Fringe 2012
I enjoyed Domestic Science even though, for a short while, I had a hairy man wiggle his butt in my face. Don’t worry; he was fully closed, it didn’t last long and he was pretending to be the sun. It all makes sense. Domestic Science down in the basement of The Canon’s Gait in the […]
Review of Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress, Fringe 2012
The last time I saw Stephen K Amos at the Festival Fringe was in a large and boiling hot chamber in the Pleasance. Work in Progress is in a far more humble arena; the boiling hot basement of the Stand 3 & 4 building. It quickly became apparent that Amos was all too aware of […]
Review of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Fringe 2012
The Festival of the Spoken Nerd was supposed to end tonight but it has been extended by two nights. If you are very quick and very lucky you might be able to grab a ticket for the remaining shows. This is a show worth catching. It’s worth fighting for a ticket. Fire and biscuits. Doctor […]
Review of Piff the Magic Dragon in … Jurassic Bark, Fringe 2012
Piff is probably the only magic dragon with a Chihuahua assistant in the Fringe festival. I caught his show last year and his star has subsequently grown. Last year I queued on a grimy flight of stairs between apartments in order to get my dose of dragon – this year I waited in line to […]
Review of A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, Festival 2012
A young cast giving it their all in one of the most popular and Shakespeare classics. Notice not only the speed of the costume swaps, fast enough to pay homage to the magical art of the quick change, but the slight of hand involved in the administration of fairy potions. The wrapper for this play […]
The mystery of the Assembly Rooms Internet wifi, Fringe 2012
There will be confusion about the Assembly Rooms in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. The Assembly Rooms are still the Assembly Rooms but not part of Assembly. Edinburgh City Council own the Assembly Rooms building but it was closed for significant refurbishment. William Burdett Coutts, who has run Fringe shows in the building for […]