Theatre
Edd McCracken: Clarke Peters has a voice like jazz. It ebbs and flows: now smooth, now rat-a-tat. He talks with the timing of a bebop musician. The riffs start comi...
Honour Bayes: “No one wakes up in the morning and thinks ‘gee I’ll be a ventriloquist when I grow up’... Fuck no!” This is probably tr...
Nick Lewis: The list of characters could be straight from the pages of any manga comic or Capcom video game, and the story might be inspired in part by traditiona...
Ishbel McFarlane: The Edinburgh Fringe attracts metaphors. It is too large and various for formal definition, so it becomes a Leviathan of culture, a Godzilla of t...
Ben Judge: In the bustling, crowded and hugely competitive world of Fringe theatre, standing out from the crowd is a daunting, near-impossible task. No more sta...
Ben Judge: Philip Stokes doesn’t pull his punches. As the creative director of the highly acclaimed Horizon Arts theatre company, he is the man behind some...
Honour Bayes: In 2008 Steve Lambert punched a journalist. The journalist in question, Chris Wilkinson, had refused to participate in The Factory, Badac Theatre's co...
Honour Bayes: Much like his music, Paco Peña’s voice seems to transport you to a place of easy contentment. But while the flamenco virtuoso with ...
Arianna Reiche: Claire Harvey met Ed Wren while he was playing her incestuous father in a student play at Winchester University in 2005. While performing a sex scene ...
Comedy
Jay Richardson: A huge bag of organic apples sits on the table where I’m meeting Arj Barker. The Californian comic has taken a Sikh oath of dietary discipline, ...
