Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 41

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ALGORITHMS, Pleasance Courtyard
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 19, 2019

Algorithms is a feel-good show, comic and gently moving. It's written by Sadie Clark who developed the play through the Soho Theatre's Writer's Lab....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: HOTTER, Underbelly
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 19, 2019

Mary Higgins and Ell Potter interviewed women and trans people from the age of 11 to 97 about what gets them 'hot', and then made a wonderful verbatim piece of theatre....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CRYSTAL RASMUSSEN PRESENTS THE BIBLE 2, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 20, 2019

After a swift rise to fame with her Nobel-nominated book Diary of a Drag Queen, DENIM's Crystal is back. Bringing her pages to life through song, dance and writhing around in a children's swimming pool. A tour-de-force show of a lifetime, 108-year-old Crystal reveals how to escape shame, escape the ...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 20, 2019

This daring new play uses a blend of verbatim interviews, Methodist hymns and original songs to investigate the lives in and around Miracle Village, a rural American community for sex offenders buried deep in Florida's sugar cane fields....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: JESSICA FOSTEKEW: HENCH, Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 20, 2019

Absolute powershed and regular host of The Guilty Feminist, Jessica Fostekew explores her big strong strength. Have you ever watched a feminist try and take 'hench' as a compliment? It's like watching a snake eat but funny. In preview, Hench was nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festiv...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: LADYBONES, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 20, 2019

Archaeologist Nuala unearths a skeleton and her ordered life starts to unravel. Digging into the mystery of the bones, can she handle the chaos of what she discovers? Based on personal experience, this is an uplifting and compelling story about OCD, dungarees and being weird but not a weirdo....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ON THE OTHER HAND, WE'RE HAPPY, Roundabout @ Summerhall
by Emma Ainley-Walker - August 18, 2019

Josh and Abbie decide to adopt. When Josh has to continue alone he meets his daughter's birth mother and lives are changed....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SPLINTERED, Bedlam Theatre
by Adam Robinson - August 18, 2019

Not fully stand up, not fully a play. Nor a sketch show or pure physical comedy. Splintered is a little bit of everything. A collection of calypso cabaret, all mixed up, reminiscent of the Caribbean itself. It explores and shares the voices of LGBTQI+ women in Trinidad and Tobago....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CRUEL INTENTIONS: THE 90S MUSICAL, Assembly George Square Gardens
by Emma Ainley-Walker - August 18, 2019

The bent to film adaptions and Jukebox productions in new musical theatre does not fill everyone's hearts with joy. Where are the original narratives? But Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical combines both of these elements with perfect pitch. It is pure nostalgia and escapism, the night of entertainme...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: DARIUS DAVIES: PERSIAN OF INTEREST, Just the Tonic at The Tron
by Amy Hanson - August 18, 2019

In a selfless act of public service, Anglo-Iranian comedian Darius will show you how easy it is to beat the system and avoid media manipulation in our agenda-driven, technology-obsessed, modern society....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: COLIN CLOUD: SINFUL, Pleasance Courtyard - The Grand
by Adam Robinson - August 18, 2019

After five years at the Fringe, and a transatlantic turn on America's Got Talent, for which he was invited back for the Champions series, Colin Cloud returns to Edinburgh with new show Sinful....

BWW Review: RED DUST ROAD, Lyceum, Edinburgh
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 18, 2019

Growing up in 70s' Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossomed into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decided to find her birth parentsa??...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: BROMANCE, Assembly Rooms - Music Hall
by Adam Robinson - August 18, 2019

The art of circus skills involves trust, talent and intimate physical contact. In a social landscape where the gender stereotypes of what it means to be a man, and what are acceptable public interactions keep changing, how does this effect male acrobats?...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: JENNY BEDE: THE MUSICAL, Just the Tonic
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 18, 2019

Classically trained in musical theatre, comedian, writer and actor Jenny Bede is tired of waiting around for her perfect role. However, much like nationalism and Greggs, musical theatre is having a bit of a moment. Naturally, Jenny wants in on the action....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: JAMES BARR: THIRST TRAP, Underbelly, Cowgate - White Belly
by Adam Robinson - August 18, 2019

James Barr has had a glittering career on the airwaves for the past few years on stations such as Heat and Hits Radio, plus working for MTV. He has taken his fame and following to dip into the stand-up comedy pool, and this guy can truly swim....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: FISHBOWL, Pleasance Courtyard - The Grand
by Adam Robinson - August 18, 2019

After winning the esteemed French theatre award, the Moliére, for Best Comedy Play, Fishbowl brings its slapstick physical comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: FATTY FAT FAT, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 18, 2019

Ever feel like your body takes up too much space in a world that doesn't want to make any room? Katie is fat. Pretty much always been fat, and will be fat forever. Join her in the Cha Cha Slide, munch on some crisps, and have a listen to what it's like to live in a body that people can't help have a...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ROSE MCGOWAN: PLANET 9, Assembly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 17, 2019

Best-selling author, actress and activist Rose McGowan makes her debut at the Fringe. Through memoir, music, storytelling, projections and performance Rose creates a new world of possibilities: Planet 9. She invites the audience on a healing journey of discovery to this new planet. The antidote to a...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ABORIGINAL COMEDY ALLSTARS, Assembly George Square Studios
by Joanna Trainor - August 18, 2019

Deadly: Excellent/amazing/really good to Aboriginal people. MC Kevin Kropinyeri explains this definition at the top of the show. It's important to know for the rest of the hour....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CHRIS PARKER: CAMP BINCH, Assembly George Square Studios
by Joanna Trainor - August 19, 2019

This show has everything - big Broadway tunes, wigs, exceptional childhood haircuts and enough energy from Parker to power the whole of Edinburgh....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: TONY SLATTERY: SLATTERY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE, The Stand
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 17, 2019

A manic mash-up of memories from his career, Tony Slattery is asked questions by his good friend Robert Ross....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: BRYONY KIMMINGS: I'M A PHOENIX, BITCH, Pleasance Courtyard
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 16, 2019

I'm a Pheonix, Bitch is an autobiographical piece which chronicles a deeply horrendous time in Bryony Kimmings' life through the years 2015-16 with the loss of her relationship, her mental health, and, nearly, her child. ...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: RAY BADRAN: EVERYBODY LOVES RAY, MAN, Pleasance Courtyard
by Joanna Trainor - August 17, 2019

Ray Badran has come up with the best ending to a comedy show, perhaps ever. Fight your way to get a seat on the front row. because you'll want to be a part of it....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ZOË COOMBS MARR: BOSSY BOTTOM, Monkey Barrel Comedy
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 16, 2019

Zoë Coombs Marr's 2016 show Trigger Warning was the bonkers brainchild of a comedian fed up with the tribulations of being a woman in comedy. She toured as a bloke called Dave for a few years which, as she puts it, 'did wonders' for her career.  This time around, she claims she will do 'a normal com...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: PHOEBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN, Assembly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 15, 2019

Best known as the co-creator and co-star of hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, interviewing the likes of Jon Stewart, Tig Nataro and Michelle Obama to name just a few. Phoebe is also a New York Times best-selling author of You Can't Touch My Hair & Other Things I Still Have To Explain and her second book Ev...