Theatre
Louise Black: Charles Trenet's 'La Mer' echos through the Playhouse, and seven dancers dressed in black begin a synchronised sequence in the darkness. White strip l...
Louise Black: In a comical contrast to the rich tones of the opening piano soundtrack, the dancers of Luxuria scurry impishly onstage and begin to violently thrust ...
Nick Lewis: Told initially through all three eyes of magical forest-dwelling child Mitsume, Death of A Samurai is a kaleidoscopic re-imagining of Love’s Lab...
Sophie Vukovic: The full-length mirrors and artificial lights of a shop fitting room set the scene for Gilmore Productions’ latest dance show One Up, One Down. ...
Hannah Atkinson: Trying to bring the spirit of Rio De Janeiro to a dingy Edinburgh cabaret bar was always likely to end in tears. Particularly when that spirit takes t...
Comedy
Tom Hackett: “Are they all shiny and brown?” “How old are they?” “I think two of them are really muscly, one’s a bit scrawny.&r...
Louise Black: As 1940s music fills the air and flashes of light drench the dancers frozen in tableau on stage, a harrowing tale of murder, love and forgiveness begi...
Louise Black: Laila Diallo creeps onstage in plimsoled feet, her delicate frame encased in a oversided anorak. She then wriggles and writhes out of the jacket, her ...
Theatre | Music
Junta Sekimori: International Fringe tourists behold: here lies the quintessential Scottish experience you’ve been questing for. There’s tartan, there&rsq...
Louise Black: Famous for creating work that is personally engaging, choreographer Liv Lorent continues to find and express an "emotional commonplace" through dance....
Louise Black: All the way from Norway to open up this boisterous bill come contemporary dance piece, 'Balls'. Choreographed in collaboration with visual artist Tor...
Ella Hickson: Dance Base provides a glass-clad and stainless-steel-lined sanctuary from the Fringe crowds. What the building promises in terms of "trendy," the show...
Ella Hickson: Adolphe Adams’s nineteenth century ballet explores the alienation and destruction caused social hierarchy. The aristocratic Albrecht falls for t...
Beth Mellor: Three lean, shaven-headed figures in black hooded cloaks crouch on the stage to play a game of dice. This sinister trio represent fate, and whichever ...
Louise Black: Dubbed as Tokyo's "hottest comedy show," Sushi Tap Show are a kooky and somewhat bemusing trio of Japanese performers making their debut at the Fringe...
