One Man Musical by Flo & Joan review – Andrew Lloyd Webber gets ‘a show about me!’ | Edinburgh festival 2024
‘I“Is this show a legal minefield? Yes, but let’s carry on.” So begins musical comedy duo Flo & Joan’s one-man musical, a more heretical adventure that places Andrew Lloyd Webber at the centre of his own autobiographical show. Is mingling with the communists and hippies of Edinburgh a sign that Lord Lloyd Webber is desperate […]
I Am the Boss review – squabbling siblings’ hijinks at Edinburgh fringe | Edinburgh festival 2024
‘DIn family-friendly circus shows, children are often warned, “Don’t try this at home.” But… This prank Age 3 and up Taiwan Season The problem is that most of the action is based on familiar domestic pranks but taken to acrobatic extremes: fights for cushions, races to claim the sofa and grudging tidying up – all […]
Precious Cargo review – Vietnam’s ‘operation babylift’ orphans look back | Edinburgh festival 2024
TThe narrator’s accents say it all: you hear Southern English, Australian English, American English and Hebridean English. What they have in common is that they are the adult voices of orphans who were flown out of South Vietnam as part of Operation Babylift at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Placed with families […]
Edinburgh art festival review – haunting return of the railway that robbed Africa | Edinburgh festival 2024
Time is a round-trip ticket to Ibrahim Mahama’s ‘Songs About Roses’ exhibition at the Fruit Market Gallery – the best show of the year. Edinburgh Arts FestivalMahama’s detailed yet poetic charcoal drawings of rail-hauling youths leave one wondering: are they laying or removing track for the British Empire’s Gold Coast Railway? My attention was immediately […]
Natalie Palamides: Weer review – an outrageously entertaining one-woman romcom | Edinburgh festival 2024
debtFollowing the trajectory of mavericks over the past few years has been as much fun as that of Natalie Palamides. From her 2017 Best Newcomer Oscar win to the brilliant cross-dressing comedy “Nate” (available on Netflix), the outrageously bold L.A. clown’s new show is now a must-see event. And say what you will about “Weir,” […]
Hannah Gadsby: ‘The Edinburgh fringe might make your dreams come true – or it will give you scurvy’ | Hannah Gadsby
TWhen I took my first show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, I slept in a closet, performed to fewer than 100 people during my stay, got hit by a golf ball at The Meadows (that’s not a euphemism), lost an exorbitant amount of money, and cried in public three times. Coming second in […]
Main Character Energy review – boudoir cabaret deconstructs Temi Wilkey’s inner celeb | Edinburgh festival 2024
Temi Wilkie is literally chasing the spotlight, rushing to grab it when it threatens to slip away before her “groundbreaking one-man show” begins. Fluffy white rugs, velvet banquettes and feather-trimmed pink outfits give the space the feel of a showgirl’s boudoir. Wilkie says the show is a showcase for her talent and impeccable resume, and […]
La Pasión Según San Marcos review – Golijov’s riot of rhythm and colour gets Edinburgh off to a thrilling start | Classical music
oh“La Pasión Segun San Marcos” by Svard Golijov Commissioned in 2000 as one of four new Passions to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, the work is now nearly 25 years old, but it’s still striking in its treatment of the Gospel. A riot of rhythm and color, weaving together a variety of Latin […]
Risk, reward and trigger warnings: Edinburgh fringe chief on his ‘balancing act’ | Edinburgh festival
and others“Edinburgh Arts Festival is a hugely successful, global arts festival,” argues Anthony Alderson, the man behind the city’s annual Fringe festival. “The West End is the source of much of this fast-growing sector of the economy and is vital to the development of much talent.” Yet he feels that the UK does too little […]
Edinburgh’s Summerhall arts venue saved after owners grant new lease | Edinburgh
Summerhall, one of Scotland’s best-known arts venues, has been given a reprieve after securing a new lease on the eve of its planned sale by the site’s owners. After it emerged in May that the building’s owners had put the vast site up for sale, arts and culture leaders expressed concern about the future of […]