by Franco Milazzo | Aug 11, 2014 | Reviews
You there at the back! Sit up and listen. Ursula Martinez’s My Stories, Your Emails isn’t the kind of lecture you want to fall asleep in, trust me. This doyenne of performance art is not an easy one to ignore in the flesh. While some of her ilk create abstract works...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 10, 2014 | Magic, Reviews
Ben Hart is as clever as he is cute – and he is very cute, with his bright eyes and cheeky sideways smile. As a magician, he is a dextrous prestidigitator, adept at misdirection, presenting his illusions with a sense of childlike wonder, rightfully proud of his...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 8, 2014 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus, Reviews
With all the Country-love going round since Dolly Parton’s appearance at Glastonbury earlier this year, Southern glamour-pusses The Wau Wau Sisters go down a treat in this Edinburgh Fringe Spiegeltent. Tragically for them (but luckily for us) they don’t always get...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 8, 2014 | Editorial, Features, Reviews, Spoken WOrd
Edinburgh Festival isn’t all about the bustling energy of Fringe Central and the Royal Mile. Across Princes Street is the New Town district of parks and elegant architecture, and Hendrick’s Gin Parlour with their Carnival of Knowledge. I head over for some high-brow...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 7, 2014 | Reviews
Baby Lame had her quarter-hour of fame some time ago and wants more, more, more. In Baby Lame: Don’t Call It A Comeback, the former child star and mother/manager Moan Crawford take the audience along for a ride back into the limelight. And what a ride: muffins,...
by Sara Cluderay | Aug 7, 2014 | Reviews
A truly creative, artful and emotional piece of music theatre. Quebec’s iconoclastic L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres (LODHO) adapt the music of Kurt Weill for their return to Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, having...
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