Edi 2022 in Review (15-21st Aug) – Alec Snook Well, my first Fringe, but absolutely the first of many to come. Edinburgh chewed me up and spat me out, directly into the lap of a passing angel… Despite a sociopathic, accommodation-based episode, I managed to complete all my spots for the week, performing to several […]
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Guest blog at Edfringe 2022: Mark Saltveit’s first Edinburgh Fringe adventure
Why did I think it was a good idea to create my first Fringe show at age 60? That’s easy: it’s an adventure. I started a “zine” about palindromes in 1993, before web pages existed, and it got out of hand, creating a worldwide (though very small) network of palindrome writers. (You know, palindromes like […]
Every ten years or so, our relationship with technology is revolutionised. Just thirty-odd years ago, mainframe computers dominated the landscape; since then, we’ve raced through desktop computing, the internet, smartphones and the explosion of social media. Will the next revolution be in voice computing and conversational AI? The uptake of this new technology is happening […]
Guest Blog at Edfringe 2022: Russ Pollard: The taste of the fringe
We are delighted to welcome Russell Pollard as a guest blogger. Watch his show trailer. DAY 6 – 27th August 2022 Day 6 at the fringe – Renewed afresh Last chance to see me is 14:00 today. The reality is that while I might do the fringe again, it will not be such a personal […]
Guest Blog at Edfringe 2022: Jenson Parker-Stone from Game Night: “We have arrived!”
We have arrived, and it’s a feeling like no other! The city is alive, and you can feel the passion from each artist radiating in every step.’Game Night’ has been in the works for a few years. We’ve been met with a few roadblocks, time outs, the longest Monopoly ‘Go to Jail’ sentence that at […]
Guest blog: Creating Floodgate – science fiction theatre at the Fringe
“It’s 2061. A coastal town is quiet, deserted by those seeking higher ground. As three siblings clear out their grandma’s belongings, they find a diary left behind that will change everything. Locked within are journals and love letters set amidst a world of climate chaos. With the audience’s help, the family secrets are spilled. When […]
Pat Silver’s a Cappella shows to see in the last week at Edfringe 2022
Innovative, entertaining, and fun – that’s a cappella at this Fringe This year the Fringe is sporting at least 23 a cappella shows, ranging from barbershop to choral to contemporary a cappella. My original story profiled the genre and some of the upcoming shows. / Now at the Fringe, I had a chance to review […]
In 2019, I was at a Fringe Festival in Canada and I realized I had a story I had to tell. I wrote a synopsis and sent it to a few venue producers in Edinburgh, because if you’re going to do the show of your life, why not do it at the best Fringe Festival […]
Performing in at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time has so many facettes.The theatre I am in is the Roman Eagle Lodge which is called at the Fringe C aquila temple right at the edge of the Johnston Terrace.When you enter the foyer… there are chandeliers. Then you go all the way upstairs and […]
Guest Blog at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022: Eleonora Saravalle share’s her gritty flyering wisdom
We are delighted to welcome Eleonora Saravalle as our guest blogger who brings her new piece, Dried Apricots to the fringe. I am reporting from Edinburgh, where I’ve been giving out flyers to attract audiences to my solo show. It’s my first time and I’m learning fast and spotting some patterns. The Scam: People in […]
You’ve probably seen the fact that endometriosis is as common as diabetes plastered over billboards, newspapers and the TV recently. If you haven’t I’ll fill you in. Endometriosis is as common as diabetes and Channel 5 have recently decided to create a 4 part documentary to better equip menstruators with information that they may need. […]
We are delighted to welcome guest blogger Dylan Perera producer for the impronauts at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. I just spent a week performing an improvised reality TV Edinburgh Fringe show, Keeping Up With the Kimprov. And it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had”. I’m on the 10am train from Edinburgh to London, reflecting […]
The Acts v. The Hacks – How I survived the Edinburgh Fringe’s Meet the Media event
by David Visick Thirty minutes into the queue for the Meet the Media event at The Speilgeltent I realise I’m wasting my time, but that’s okay, because I have time to waste. The cast are speedrunning lines for tonight’s opening show and at times like this it’s the writer’s job to go away. A long, […]
“Verbatim is a type of documentary theatre constructed from the words of real people responding to a particular theme or a real event. These words might be taken from interviews or testimonials, or even from media or news footage.”. (Naomi Joseph) There are always verbatim theatre productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and, if you haven’t […]
We love new writing. It isn’t that we don’t like old writing, but we do love new writing. Fresh Fringe is like fresh vegetables at a market stall, newly arrived from a local farm. New writing, when ripe for picking means it is ready for the stage and we love to find it and see […]
There are 253 results in a search for shows and events at this year’s Camaden Fringe. Bursting with new writing, experimentation and radical creativity, celebration and entertainment across a range of gengres, Camden Fringe has been a viable alternative for theatre makers and audiences for quite a few years now. Here are our recommendations going […]
Improvised performance tends to be mostly comedy-based at the Fringe. Yet there is also a smattering of improvised music and theatre as well. There are news shows on offer each year and the quest for a novel angle is always at the forefront as compnaies and performers try to win the audience battle. There are […]
I have to admit I am disappointed at the lack of science-fiction at this year’s Fringe. Despite it being a comeback fringe with less shows, there are still well over three thousand to choose from. Could it be that our worst sci-fi nightmares have arrived in the present, with environmental catastrophe and AI Hell already […]
Theatre maker, musician, clown and reviewer Pat Silver shares her thoughts on this popular fringe niche. NEW! Pat Silver’s shows to see in the last week for Edfringe 2022. Aca-cool! “But where is the music?” “ I don’t see the drummer but I hear one.” “I sing in a group. Is it ok if we […]
Making sense of life: Age is a Feeling From Haley McGee, a new show, that is different every day, inspired by interviews with hospice workers, interactions with mystics and trips to the cemetery. Age is a Feeling is a story about the glorious and melancholy unknowability of human life that charts the seminal moments, rites of passage […]
I’m very happy to be back at the ‘Fringe’ this August with my camera for FringeReview after a couple of years absence. Looking back Enjoyable as it is, this will be very different time for me, because my good friend, the well known fringe performer, “Lynn Ruth Miller” will never be with us again. Sadly, […]
Now that Edinburgh Fringe is back, here are some of my comedy highlights. My apologies for the length of the list, there is so much good stuff to see! I haven’t posted show links; if you’re reading this, you will already know where to find them. The shows are in no particular order. Paul Currie […]
