Mark Watson wanders onto the stage and picks up a totally unseen script by a totally unknown female writer. It’s coincidence that tonight’s comedian is Mark Watson – there’s a differ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMCamille O’Sullivan is gravelly, gritty and full of angst. She growls through a gorgeous set of songs by songwriters that inspire her – Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen top the list. It starts…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMThe madness of Edinburgh Fringe inevitably breeds a lack of wellbeing and an appalling diet, such is the rush to scamper from show to networking event and back again, ad nauseam. Good thing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMYvette is a story about growing up under the pressure of a broken home and is desperate to fit in with the rest of her school friends. Mum unknowingly despises her; Dad is nowhere to be seen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMIt’s a road trip for Ellen Robertson and Charly Clive as they take to North America after school in the pursuit of John Hancock. He seems like as good a subject as any for their award-winn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMAt ten years old, GG (Naomi Sheldon) is of the impression that in order to be liked, she has to be a Good Girl. She’s at the county swimming championships and her coach is telling her …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMIf you find yourself anywhere in the vicinity of Reuben Kaye when he is performing, run. Run fast and don’t look back. If you make eye contact and the divine devil that is Kaye himself eng…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis is a tale of epic proportions, narrated by a storyteller with epic talent, as part of an epic company that has made their mark on theatre for the last ten years. This is Theatre Ad Infi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMJemima Foxtrot loops lines of verse, sounds and noises around and around, until they build up to an indistinguishable din. It’s the clamour in our subconscious mind, the multiple threads o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMIt’s time to put a German back in charge – not as an homage to Hitler, but someone who is camp as Christmas, bursting with energy and quick wit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPageant is the light-hearted, saccharine, glittery music depiction of the Miss Glamouresse beauty pageant, with all of the contestants having a little more to offer than your usual beauty qu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMUnder John Tiffany’s direction, Road feels terrifyingly present, and still as necessary after over thirty years since its debut.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBentley Browning presents a 12-step Tinder Rehab programme to guarantee you more success on Tinder, helping lonely hearts find love or strengthen an already existing relationship. He describ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04PMAs Lucy (Emma Bentley) grows up, she seems a somewhat unusual kid – keeps her head down in school, a little bit lonely but able to stand up for herself. What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMGuest Review by Isabelle Fernandez.Based on actual events, and set in University College Hospital in London in 1949, Tony Cox’s Mrs Orwell is a depiction of what was to become George O…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMMegan Gogerty pauses for the same amount of time between each joke. Her routine has a very rigid structure – comment, joke, pause, repeat. It’s too prescriptive to allow the laughs to se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMCat Loud stands and delivers a flawless a cappella performance, a bluesy voice overflowing with restrained pain at being eternally damned. Every syllable is subtly tinged with sadness, a res…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMDaisy (Sarah Milton) gets her first flush of success at the swim meet and the endorphin rush is exhilarating. Maybe that’s why Milton talks so fast for the majority of Tumble Tuck, instant…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMAs a comedian, Tamar Broadbent is gorgeously awkward and real. Her brand of musical comedy may not deal with the big social, political or economic issues going on in the world today, but tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM“Who else is menstruating? We can be blood sisters tonight.” Lily Phillips is without her fellow Darlings tonight, but she doesn’t need them – Lady Power has an audience of willing s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMHyperion – a naval ship, a Greek god, a romantic novel by Friedrich Hölderlin. It’s also the setting for George Siena’s one-man, multi-thematic, blended performance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMIt’s a twee, nostalgic tale of a girl who can’t get a job as an actress and contemplates suicide. The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign is Peg Entwhistle, not Joanne Hartstone’s c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMHeather Litteer gives off the impression of a faded starlet. She speaks of her past with bitter nostalgia, recollections that are simultaneously loving and sharp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMRoti stands seem so monotonous in Vines, a never-ending series of the same, robotic movements again and again. It’s the eternal jerk pickled cucumber loop.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMNext up in our Spotlight feature is How To Not Kill Yourself For 30 Days…And The Next 330, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 2 – 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer and actor Annie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is The Nature of Forgetting, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 – 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer and director Guillaume Pigé.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Graham Dickson Is The Narcissist, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 – 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer and actor Graham Dickson.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNext up in our Spotlight feature is DuBois Entendre, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 – 26 August 2017. I caught up with writer and actor Myra DuBois.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Good Girl, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 – 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer and actor Naomi Sheldon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNext up in our Spotlight feature is Woman on Fire, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 4 – 26 August 2017. I caught up with actor Claire Moore.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNext up in our Spotlight feature is When The Going Gets Duff which plays Edinburgh Festival from 2 – 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer and actor Helen Duff.
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