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30 August 2019
Life. In Hong Kong
Director Tang Wai-kit, the first Hong Kong student of mime master Marcel Marceau, offers this year’s fringe distressing theatre that uses mime to explore trials and tribulations experienced by his compatriots
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29 August 2019
Henry Box Brown: A Musical Journey
The shining black musical that brings to this year's fringe the radical story of an 1850s Virginia slave who mails himself to freedom in a box
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23 August 2019
Sorry, Harriet Tubman
An effortlessly endearing stand-up about everything, from meeting Michelle Obama to struggling with cowgirl, that also manages to touch on what is wrong with black excellence
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21 August 2019
OUT
OUT by Rachael Young is an extremely powerful physical meditation on the painful, and productive, relationship between blackness and queerness
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21 August 2019
Interview with Saskia Preston
"Most shows go unnoticed - be prepared for that or fight it with cash."
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14 August 2019
Interview with Alex Gwyther
"I don’t look through newspapers and decide to write something. If an idea hits me like a ten ton of bricks and I need to drop everything to tell this story then I know it’s something important."
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14 August 2019
Interview with Jennifer Irons, writer and performer of Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)
"Growing up in an isolated mining community there wasn’t much to see in terms of arts. Every Christmas the Nutcracker would be on CBC television and Mikail Baryshnikov was (still is) INCREDIBLE. Watch that man move. He’s unreal."
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12 August 2019
21: Memories of Growing Up
Emotional and captivating whilst being an important and accessible oral history archive. It explores intensely individual and personal stories whilst also commenting on our diverse and wonderful 21st-century society.
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12 August 2019
The Nights by Henry Naylor
The show is moving, emotional, tear-inducing and gripping from start to finish. Go see it.
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12 August 2019
Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody
It is a wizarding-world extravaganza, flourished with unforgivable curses, witty humour and muggle-worthy entertainment. A must see for Harry Potter fans.
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12 August 2019
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
A long running show that is still exciting, inventive, fresh faced and hilarious as ever
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12 August 2019
Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy
Incoherant and confused, ultimately Alackadaddy failed to deliver and masked Cornwell's usual brilliance.
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11 August 2019
The Delightful Sausage: Ginster's Paradise
Funny, ridiculous and ultimately observant, the double-act delight audiences with their parody of holiday paradise.
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11 August 2019
Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind
A show that shares that it’s ok to change your mind as many times as you want. Raw, emotional yet funny and comedic, Dinerman invites you into her life story and rollercoaster journey to where she is now, a natural stand-up comedian.
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11 August 2019
Searchers
It is energetic, electric, empathetic, explorative and fronted by an incredible vocalist, talented actor and rock performer.
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11 August 2019
Interview with Theo Moore, Red Biscuit Theatre
Red Biscuit Theatre have created a delightful reimagining of a classic childhood story, and are taking The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar up to Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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10 August 2019
Hardeep Singh Kohli: It's Hard to Be Deep
A show with a message, but it gets lost in transmission