EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: DIVA LAS VEGAS, The Space, 12 Augustby Natalie O'Donoghue - August 14, 2016Diva Las Vegas delivers The Sundaes back to Edinburgh with their boldest show to date. Sassy, sexy and sensational, The Sundaes pay homage to the biggest divas on the planet with their trademark stunning vocals, coupled with a generous scoop of comedy and the outrageous costumes that they are known for. EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: THE BOOKBINDER, Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Augustby Natalie O'Donoghue - August 13, 2016'They say you can get lost in a good book. But it's worse to get lost in a bad one...' From award-winning NZ company Trick of the Light Theatre comes a story of mystery, magic and mayhem - weaving shadow play, paper art, puppetry, and music into an original dark fairytale. EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: A CUP OF TEA WITH LADY C, Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10 Augustby Adam Robinson - August 12, 2016The Australian outback did not know what it was in for when Lady Colin Campbell entered last year. And neither did the vast majority of I'm A Celebrity viewers. Almost instantly she became the favourite with killer one liners and strong opinions. It is this reignited fame which has brought A Cup of Tea With Lady C to this year's Edinburgh Fringe. EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: TWO KITTENS AND A KID, The Space, 11 Augustby Natalie O'Donoghue - August 12, 2016A gay, white, suburban man suddenly becomes 'Mr Mom' to an adolescent, black, urban girl. White-knuckled on a roller coaster of teenage angst, this new parent falls off the precipice into the mystery of black hair, menstruation, boyz, and ultimately mental health and addiction. EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: AFTER THE FLOOD, Sweet Grassmarket, 10 Augustby Amy Hanson - August 11, 2016After the Flood, a devised piece performed by a young cast from Sundial Theatre, is a futuristic drama set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. In the world of the play, civilisation has been all but wiped out by a great flood; the consequence of climate change it is hinted. One tribe of teenagers survive the new world by diving into abandoned buildings for food, taking their lives in their hands for the odd tin of peaches or pot noodle. Trapped by weather with diminishing food supplies on one such voyage into an abandoned hotel, conflicts begin to split the group, exacerbated by the appearance of a boy apparently left behind by Welsh raiders. EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: AGENT OF INFLUENCE, Underbelly, 10 Augustby Natalie O'Donoghue - August 11, 2016'Mid-calf, navy blue day dress with pearl buttons by Victor Stiebel. Dove grey tweed jacket and fox stole by House of Hartnell. Hat by Elsa Schiaparelli. Perfect for luncheons, jaunts around town and spying on fascists'. Lady Pamela, fashion columnist and socialite, is recruited by MI5 to keep notes on Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII. EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: FOREVER PLAID, theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 10 Augustby Amy Hanson - August 10, 2016Four young singers in an American close harmony group - the eponymous Plaids - were killed in a car accident just as their careers were taking off, and as their style of music was about to give way to the British Invasion of the Beatles. The quartet are given the chance to return to earth for one night only to give the concert they never got a chance to perform. This is the idea behind Forever Plaid, a musical revue that premiered off-Broadway in the late eighties, and which now comes to Edinburgh.
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