REVIEWS

Mary Mac – Hail Mary: The Tartan Songstress – Assembly George Square

Scotland’s very own drag superstar, Mary Mac, makes her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Blending gentle comedy and…

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Kirsty Mann: Corpse – Summerhall

Summerhall's Red Lecture Theatre is a particularly appropriate home for Corpse. I always find it a slightly creepy, intimate space, but…

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Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett – Underbelly’s Circus Hub

International cabaret star Bernie Dieter returns to the Fringe with her spectacular line up of performers. Prepare for full frontal…

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Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge – Pleasance Courtyard

Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge arrived with considerable expectation, and for a while I thought I was in…

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Buggers – Pleasance Courtyard

Francis Bacon distorted the human figure on canvas. Buggers asks what happened when that same capacity for distortion entered one of the…

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EXXY – King’s Theatre

It’s quite something when the safety feature at the start of a show is for the audience’s health rather than…

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Mates – The Courtyard Theatre

Four Face Theatre’s ‘Mates’ begins with an appealing comic problem: four friends, based on a misplaced promise, have secured the…

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Maz Pantz – Canal Café Theatre

Created and performed by Mary Redmond, ‘Maz Pantz’ arrives at the Camden Fringe with considerable confidence, promising a character-led sketch…

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Shake It Up! The Improvised Shakespeare Show – Gilded Balloon Teviot

Welcome to the world of improvised Shakespeare!  I have seen Shake It Up! several times before, including in the Birmingham…

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Boogie on the Bones – Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall

Within Theatre Company is an award-winning company, brought together from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine by the reality of their situation…

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