EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TABARNAK, Underbelly Circus HubAugust 14, 2018A celebration of Heaven and Hell and everything in between! Cirque Alfonse, the creators that brought you the five-star, Fringe 2015 sell-out hit Barbu, return with a brand-new show. Daring, raucous, eccentric and downright fun, Tabarnak combines edge-of-your-seat circus with crazy cabaret acts and a heart-thumping live score.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: PICKLE JAR, UnderbellyAugust 13, 2018It's hard keeping it together when your whole life is falling apart. But the pressures of teaching, Tinder and outrageous Irish best mates are a lot to juggle, especially when you're stumbling through the maze of trying to be a grown-up. Stranger danger, heartbreak and piña coladas are on the syllabus in the hilarious debut play Pickle Jar, written and performed by Maddie Rice, the critically acclaimed star of the smash-hit Fleabag UK and international tour.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WEIRD, Pleasance CourtyardAugust 13, 2018Yasmin feels different, she feels weird. She longs to be normal like everyone else but that's proving difficult... Based on the writer's experiences, WEIRD explores the highs and lows of what it is like for a sufferer, and a sufferer's family, to live in the shadows of obsessive compulsive disorder. Moving one-woman play about the effects of one person's mental health on a whole family. Sell-out Arcola show, winner of Slam-Soaps 2018.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANGRY ALAN, UnderbellyAugust 12, 2018'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?' Roger thinks the world's gone mad. He hates his job, his ex-wife torments him and to top it all, his girlfriend just discovered feminism. Roger's about to lose his shit. Until he discovers Angry Alan: online activist and 'voice of reason'... A darkly comic new play about masculinity in crisis from award-winning Penelope Skinner performed by Donald Sage Mackay.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: BOTTOM, SummerhallAugust 12, 2018Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a top or a bottom? Bottom is about bums, Beyonce and burnt fish fingers. Join Willy for a queer coming-of-age remix, as he questions if 'bottom' in the bedroom means 'bottom' in life - and whether Beyonce can help put his love on top.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: REVELATIONS, SummerhallAugust 12, 2018My best friends, Sarah and Emma, asked me for my sperm. This is the tale of what happened after I gave it to them. A storytelling show about love, faith and trying to do the right thing. Made with Daniel Goldman and set in the same universe as Team Viking and A Hundred Different Words for Love.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: THIRTEEN, Gilded BalloonAugust 12, 2018A fast- paced, hilarious coming of age musical by Tony award winning composer Jason Robert Brown with book by Dan Elish and Robert Horne. Evan Goldman's parents have split up and he is forced to leave the buzz of New York for the 'lamest place in the world' in rural Indiana. Will he find his place in the popularity pecking order? With an unforgettable rock score and a young, talented cast this is sure to be a fringe hit.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Q&A- The Worst Little Warehouse In LondonAugust 10, 2018When 12 people live in a converted warehouse in north London, what could possibly go wrong? In this hilarious and off-the-wall cabaret, Lala Barlow and Robbie Smith are two wide-eyed koalas fresh off the boat and looking for the perfect place to call home. Relive their year living at Daisy Mill as they discover high ceilings, bathroom baskets and very thin bedroom walls. Directed by Sarah Redmond and starring every housemate you've ever lived with, it's a celebration of the joys of shared housing.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SONG OF LUNCH, PleasanceAugust 10, 2018Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Downton Abbey, Toast of London) and Rebecca Johnson (The Trip, The Flood) star in this hilarious and poignant drama of a disastrous attempt to rekindle lost love. Set in a Soho Italian restaurant, Costa Award winner Christopher Reid's verse comedy is exquisitely intertwined with glorious animations by Charles Peattie (Alex cartoon, Daily Telegraph) in this bittersweet tragi-comedy of love, loss and Chianti.
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TOAST, Traverse TheatreAugust 9, 2018Nigel Slater's Toast is a new play based on his award-winning autobiography. Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel Slater's childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle and waging war over cakes through to the playground politics of sweets and the rigid rules of restaurant dining, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and... toast.
BWW Review: MADAGASCAR THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, GlasgowAugust 8, 2018This smash hit musical features all of your favourite crack-a-lackin' friends as they escape from their home in New York's Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien's Madagascar.