Edinburgh Fringe – Archive

The Forest Fringe is set to challenge every convention in sight, from the role of the audience right up to what we can comfortably classify as theatre.

So the Festival Fringe is over, but perhaps its most important task is just beginning. It’s all very well staging thousands of challenging new productions for a month in one city, but what about the future life of those productions,…

In Part 2 I criticised Belt Up’s Women of Troy for promising more than it offered. This was before I realised that Women of Troy is part of something much bigger. C Venues have handed Belt Up the keys to one of…

In 21 years the closest I’ve come to experiencing physical theatre is A Level Theatre Studies and a few ill-informed cracks about interpretive dance. Where better to overcome my ignorance than the Fringe? I mentioned in Part 3 that The…

After spending the majority of my time in C Venues and the Underbelly - most of whose theatre spaces are fairly makeshift - stepping into the Traverse feels a bit like warping back to Theatreland. Unlike C, it’s a purpose-built…

The Edinburgh Fringe is a safe space where the loss of a grand or two equals a successful show and your career isn’t necessarily on the line if your idea doesn’t quite come off.

The annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts the best and the barmiest of companies to show off, experiment and network for three weeks of non-stop plays and parties.

Comedy doesn’t have to be racist, sexist, rude or political to get a reaction. It can simply be gentle, observational, harmless fun and can get just as many laughs, be just as hilarious.