1+ week, 6+ day ago   (80+ words) Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team Crybabies: The ScaringElf Lyons is The Woman on the EdgeJoseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70Milo Edwards: CatamaranSam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage Acid’s Reign Fanny…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (134+ words) Studied haplessness makes for a brilliant, satirical, physical comedy from Geoff Sobelle and co. A graduate from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to the Edinburgh International Festival, for which he’s produced the previous big hits Home and Food, Sobelle brings a…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (504+ words) Alex Franklin discusses her stand-up and musical comedy show Kiss Me x, all about kissing and dating Honestly I got a review for an early work-in-progress version of the show that described it as ‘a pure ray of sunshine’ which…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (825+ words) Comedian Finlay Christie discusses his latest show Champagne Casanova To be honest, I don’t really want to tell people what to expect. I always think that answer sounds a bit artificial. If you’d like to know what my stand-up is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (89+ words) Kate Dehnert’s emotional show explores the fall-out from a ten-year relationship In a culture that’s joyfully embracing the ‘unhinged’, there’s no shortage at this year’s Fringe of radically open comedies featuring performers seeming to be right on the brink. Of…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (563+ words) Fay Guiffo talks to us about Arcana, her debut show which comes to the Fringe as part of the Made in Scotland showcase Born in France, Fay Guiffo is a French Cameroonian musician, performer and author-director based in Edinburgh. Arcana…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (232+ words) festmag.com Rob Copland: ONE (more please) Rob Copland grapples with professional woes and becoming a father in his latest show Rob Copland didn’t want to be at this year’s festival he huffs. Coming hard upon his daughter being born…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (406+ words) Comedian Rob Preston answers our Edinburgh Fringe Q&A in typically tongue in cheek fashion No sorry my mistake, that’s a 1 star review of the 2007 film Wild Hogs. The show is directed by Dan Bishop. We met at a support…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (304+ words) festmag.com Review: Robin Grainger: Lemonade Robin Grainger makes his anticipated Edinburgh Fringe return with Lemonade Born in Aberdeenshire and now local to the Edinburgh comedy scene, Robin Grainger has seen previous successes at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (154+ words) Ed Night delivers a tight set that is as introspective as it is mischievous The big question in the lengthy queue awaiting Ed Night’s new hour: would the once-sardonic outsider be all giddily upbeat after that Best Show nomination last…...