Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019

Anthony Alderson has his own Just Eat bike named specially for him and he arrived on stage this morning on the bicycle at Pleasance Grand to tell us that we should all cycle and...

There are many serious, literary, insightful productions at the Fringe, but sometimes, after a long day, all you want is good undemanding entertainment. In Kurl Up and Dye, Newcastle University Theatre Society (the appropriately abbreviated...

One of the more positive elements of those satellite television channels showing endless repeats of programmes from the 1970s and 80s is that they bring true classic shows from that era to the watching audience today. One...

As part of Army@The Fringe one production deals with the life and work of a Second World War poet.Unicorns, Almost is Owen Sheers’ play about the poet Keith Douglas (played by Dan Krikler)...

Jekyll and Hyde might have Robert Louis Stevenson turning in his grave but he surely would have chuckled.This New Zealand show, with an ever-so-slight twinge of Kiwi under their faux-French accents, is young,...

In East Claremont Street there is a little corner of the Fringe which is all about the Army. This is the Army’s own Fringe venue, at the historic Hepburn House Army Reserve Centre in...

The purpose of the Assembly Gala held at Assembly Hall on The Mound is to give press and critics a chance to see as many shows in an hour and a half as it...

This August, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Palmerston Place is offering a full and varied programme of music, events and exhibitions to entertain residents and locals alike. From concerts to Cathedral tours, photography to Phoebe...

Following their 2018 award winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy’s Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards (‘a brilliantcomedy coupling’ Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.Abigail...

Army@TheFringe in association with Summerhall are using opera to give the unsung heroes of the British Army, the women, their voice.Dead Equal is a pioneering production brought to the Fringe by Palmer &...

Four well-known Scottish musicians are joining forces for the first time for a run at The Fringe.The quartet comprises Edinburgh-based music award-winner Dick Lee (clarinet), who composed the music for Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, Malcolm...

This is the true story of a forgotten Scottish hero, the Reverend Donald Caskie who was known as the Tartan Pimpernel. Born on Islay he became minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris.When...

As part of Army@TheFringe Unicorns Almost will celebrate the life and poetry of Keith Douglas who is widely regarded as the best poet of the Second World War.He had four engagements and died...

Bomb Happy marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day and brings to life first hand accounts of five Normandy veterans. It toured in 2017 and generated many excellent reviewsThese are ordinary lads who find...

Thrillingly spectacular circus skills blend seamlessly with physical comedy, clowning, juggling, theatrical storytelling and slapstick in this colourful, loud and funny show from Lost in Translation.In the show we meet Madame and the charming...

Like trying to fit a guitar shaped peg into a round hole, 19-year-old Paisley singer song writer Lisa Kowalski has been on quite a journey throughout her teenage years, trying to find her place...

Heroes take flight at the Edinburgh Fringe – aerial dance theatre and circusAll or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre and Room 2 Manoeuvre are bringing their new show, Heroes, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 from 01...

Death on the Fringe, the charity-run initiative to get the world’s largest arts festival talking about the one thing that faces us all, returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth year.The mini-festival draws...

With politics moving to extremes and into every aspect of our lives, Erich McElroy (Newsnight, BBC Breakfast, GMB) finds another way. The only true centrist comedian at the Fringe, Erich is rising up to...

Imagination Workshop has a colourful and classy 5-star hub, new for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 in one of the city’s best hotels and hosting 11 amazing acts, including Fringe favourite, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience,...

Faulty Towers The Original Dining Experience returns!- The world’s longest running and most successful tribute to the BBC’s iconic sitcom is back for its 12th Edinburgh Fringe. This one-of-a-kind original is internationally recognised as...

The Trial, StoneCrabs Theatre CompanyPart stand-up, part gig, with a sparkling performance by Inês Sampaio, The Trial tells the story of trans woman Tieta who returns to a village in Brazil in search of justice and...

Award-winning LBC radio presenter, CNN political commentator and For the Many podcast co-host, Iain Dale brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs to the Fringe for the first time.Between 31 July and 11...

HEROES OF THE FRINGE PROUDLY PRESENTS…BRICE: BIN WONDERINGBrice is back but he’s not the same.Still silly, but not the same… After a turbulent year of choices that couldn’t be unmade, and drinks that...

This original, fully immersive comedy opened in September 2018 to rave reviews, both on tour and in a new London residency.  It’s appearing at Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in 2019 and it's...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has an open door policy - anyone can put on a show here. And this was never more appropriate than for the cast of the play The Trojan Women.The women...

After her sell-out 2018 show Trying (a masterpiece,  Voice), which earned her the prestigious Comedians Choice Best Performer Award, star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Lexx brings her latest Edinburgh solo hour -...

A brand new, haunting and uplifting adaptation of Euripides’ great anti-war tragedy, written and acted by a cast of Syrian refugees living in Glasgow, performed in Arabic (with surtitles) and English.  The Trojans opened...

Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love SongsBanshee Labyrinth (Cinema)August 3 - 25 (except 15) @ 17:102019 is the year the protest song makes its comeback.From the ‘outstanding’ (The Times) creator of YouTube smash 17...

Konstantin Kisin, who made international headlines by refusing to sign a ‘safe space’ contract for a university gig, offers a fiercely intelligent, uncompromising look at identity, freedom of expression and ‘wokeness’ in his debut...