All happy families are alike; each vampire family are vampires in their own way. In the new dark comedy The Radleys, Euros Lyn directs Kelly Macdonald as Helen Radley, and Damien Lewis as Peter Radley, recovering vampires who are forced to reveal the family illness to their children after one of them goes full Christopher […]
Erin Murray Quinlan
Writer for FringeReview
When I attended A.C. Grayling’s talk about his new book, Who Owns the Moon, I was hoping to hear something astrological, something that might be wondrous and expand my understanding of space and our place in it. Unfortunately for me, Grayling is far too savvy for that. He’s seen what humans are capable of, and […]
Tell us a bit about who you are and what you have at the Fringe. We are TPTC, a female and queer-led theatre company who formed during their time at university. Our goal is to create politically-focussed work that has female voices at the core. This year, we’re bringing our new play COVENANT to the […]
The Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon refers to a cognitive bias wherein an observer learns something new and starts seeing it everywhere. For example, I recently noticed a Rowan tree for the first time, and now the world seems to be overrun with scarlet berries and feathery leaves. I imagine if one had just learned the term ‘Neurodiverse’, […]
The new documentary *smiles and kisses you* follows Chris, a thirty-something gas station employee living in North Carolina with his girlfriend, a real doll called Mimi he communicates with through an AI app. I spoke with director Bryan Carberry about this strange relationship, and how far away any of us are from needing the same […]
“Patron Saint is an hour of stand-up about spirituality, sexuality, virality and why anyone is funny. More specifically, it’s an hour of stand-up by Kelly Bachman, a comedian and rape survivor who found herself with sudden notoriety after encountering serial predator Harvey Weinstein at a comedy show in New York. Kelly was then asked to […]
Emily Wilson is a rockstar the likes of which we have never seen. The tattooed professor of classical studies, shod in metallic gold sneakers, commands the room with her hands outstretched, her deep voice invoking the Muse in Ancient Greek. It’s not unlike Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel warning Frodo about what would happen if she took […]
Beowulf: The Musical had its premiere at Greyfriar Kirk at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 15th August. I sat down with its writer and composer, Umay Acar-Sümer, to talk about the source material and why she feels it was ready for a musical adaptation. What made you decide to write a musical version of Beowulf? I […]
In her new one-woman show The Day My Sugar Daddy Dumped Me, Becky Goodman talks and sings about her relationships with older men, particularly married ones. The expanded version of the show includes her experience as a sugar baby for a surprisingly sweet man called Sal, and the surprising connection that made last year’s show […]
James O’Brien is quite optimistic about the youth of today. A woman has stood to ask him what is to be done about a generation perceived to only care about lip injections and Kardashians, but O’Brien- gently- isn’t having any of it. Complaints on the apathy of youth go back to time immemorial, and anyway, […]
“Five hundred words please,” Thomas Hart’s editor tells him in the opening chapter of Sarah Perry’s newest work Enlightenment, “and six if the night is clear.” The night is clear, folks. It hadn’t occurred to me that a discussion with Sarah Perry at the Edinburgh Book Festival would require Perry to actually read from the […]
In this series of interviews, I sent several questions to couples who are bringing shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe together. In this edition, Stephen Smith and Stephanie Van Driesen talk about how to work through annoyance at each other, what they’ve learned working together, and the morning routine that keeps them going. Who are […]
In this series of interviews, I sent several questions to couples who are bringing shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe together. In this edition, Sarina Freda and Nicholas Webster of no no no please no god no, never mind I’m fine talk about sound design, crystal math, and the TV show we should all be […]
It is the 180th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol, the 30th for Gerald Dickens’ one-man stage adaptation, and the 15th for bringing it to Nashua, New Hampshire as a guest of Fortin Gage Flowers and Gifts. The great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens spoke with us about the endurance of the Christmas classic, […]
