Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 44

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: BURGERZ, Traverse Treatre
by Emma Ainley-Walker - August 08, 2019

In 2016, someone threw a burger at performance artist Travis Alabanza. No one did anything....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: GUY MONTGOMERY: I WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM BEFORE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT, Assembly George Square Studios
by Joanna Trainor - August 07, 2019

I thought it important to confirm that there is absolutely no pissing at any point during Guy's set. Sorry if that's what you came to see....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: DREAMGUN: FILM READS, Underbelly, Bristo Square
by Christiana Rose - August 07, 2019

Dreamgun's Film Reads rewrites films scripts for comic effect...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: NICK HELM, PHOENIX FROM THE FLAMES, Pleasance Dome
by Christiana Rose - August 06, 2019

Nick Helm's Phoenix from the Flames is an electric blend of comedy and musical performance. His show is verging on riotous, but surprisingly uplifting....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SUPER SUNDAY, Underbelly's Circus Hub On The Meadows, Lafayette
by Christiana Rose - August 06, 2019

Super Sunday is a circus show by Race Horse Company, known for their uncompromising contemporary vision....

EDINBURGH 2019 BWW Review: MY DARLING CLEMMIE, Assembly, Drawing Room
by Christiana Rose - August 06, 2019

A one woman play telling the story of Clementine Hozier's life with Winston Churchill....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CREAM TEA AND INCEST, Gilded Balloon, Rose Theatre
by Christiana Rose - August 05, 2019

Peracals Productions presents writer Benjamin Alborough's Cream Tea and Incest in a revival, featuring an all-female cast of four in a Jeevesian tale....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: JUST CHECKING IN, Gilded Balloon
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2019

A once-glamorous Scottish hotel is being sold to Donald Trump. Eccentric staff and celebrity guests conspire to prevent the sale. But first, if they are to succeed, a menacing mystery must be investigated...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: Maria Shehata: HERO, Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
by Joanna Trainor - August 05, 2019

Do you ever worry about how a comedian is doing? Maria Shehata's 2017 Edfringe show finished with an uncertain future for a relationship she had moved across the world for, so I wanted to check in and see how things were going for her....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: TOM LENK IS TRASH, Assembly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2019

In 2016, SAG Award-winning, middle-aged scene-stealer Tom Lenk (Buffy, Tilda Swinton Answers..., Transparent, HBO's Room 104) accidentally achieved what millennials and wannabe social media 'influencers' desperately crave: Instagram superstardom. Using 'household junk and sly humor' (New York Times)...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: LAURA LEXX: KNEE JERK, Gilded Balloon
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2019

Star of Live at the Apollo, Laura Lexx is a 'bouncy, bubbly stand up star' (Telegraph) shining a hilarious light on how hard it is to be a good person these days. Can you change the world without offending anyone?...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: WEST END PRODUCER - FREE WILLY, Studio 2 @ Assembly Studios
by Fraser MacDonald - August 04, 2019

On his first foray in front of the curtain at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, West End Producer unveils his brand new project - Free Willy: The Musical - and invites his audience to audition for their own role in the production....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2019

Grab your Bag for Life, stick your pound-shaped keyrings into the trolley and step inside The Supermarket for a freshly baked musical treat. Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area is an original comedy-musical from Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society (SiX, Hot Gay Time Machine) by Laurence T-S...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SPONTANEOUS POTTER, Gilded Balloon, Rose Theatre
by Christiana Rose - August 04, 2019

Spontaneous Potter is a playful, inventive piece, joyfully tapping into a generation of Potterhead's love of the franchise...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: TONY LAW: IDENTIFIES, Monkey Barrel
by Christiana Rose - August 04, 2019

Tony Law is wild, utterly absurd and magnetic in his new show 'Identifies'...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SUCH FILTHY F*CKS, Pleasance Dome
by Daniel Perks - August 04, 2019

Oli Forsyth expertly writes and directs Such Filthy F*cks, a show that questions why porn and porn addiction is still taboo....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: BLODEUWEDD UNTOLD, Pleasance Courtyard
by Christiana Rose - August 04, 2019

The story of Blodeuwedd Untold is about a woman created from the flowers, but her passion has a devastating effect...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: DEAD RINGERS LIVE, Pleasance EICC
by Christiana Rose - August 04, 2019

Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens and Duncan Wisbey thrill audiences with their quick wit and wonderful impersonations of politicians and public figures. Hilarious, clever, inventive....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SOOZ KEMPNER: MEGA DRIVE, The Globe Bar
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2019

Following 2018's Super Sonic 90s Kid, award-winning comedian Sooz Kempner is back with a brand-new hour, Mega Drive: a show about the video games that defined our youth and the ambition they helped create. Sega, childhood, songs a?" this is for anyone who remembers the 90s and had big dreams as a ki...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: STEPHEN BUCHANAN: BABY DOVE, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2019

Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe. Expect sharp storytelling and offbeat observations, as the 27-year-old delves into the reality of living at home with his mum and a refuge...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ENOUGH, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2019

Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants. They're here for your safety, your comfort and your pleasure. Or so you think. But 30,000 feet below them their seemingly perfect lives are rapidly unravelling....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: VIKKI STONE: SONG BIRD, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2019

Multi award-winning comedian and musician Vikki Stone returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show of her trademark comedy songs and stand-up. Whilst in previews, Song Bird was nominated for Best Musical Show at the 2019 Leicester Comedy Festival Awards....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: AARON SIMMONDS: DISABLED COCONUT, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2019

Join the BBC New Comedy Award finalist and wheelchair enthusiast as he tells you about how his first paid gig led to him performing on BBC2 a year later, and what happens when you are being trolled online for not being disabled enough. Aaron is far better at stand-up than standing up and his unique ...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: GODLEY ON THE FRINGE, Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
by Fraser MacDonald - August 04, 2019

Janey Godley's stand up material really is second to none. She boasts some of the best one-liners of the Fringe, distilling decades of Glasgow patter and delivering her material in a way that no-one else can....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ASHLEY STORRIE: HYSTERICAL, Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
by Fraser MacDonald - August 04, 2019

In her one-hour set at Edinburgh's Counting House, she brings a fresh perspective to dating, crime and autism with a brand that is most definitely her own....