Voicebox: Edinburgh Fringe
Every year since 2014 we have been travelling up to the Scottish capital every August to review the largest arts festival in the world.
This is where all the content we've created over the years gets filed. This Voicebox contains reviews, interviews, opinion pieces and blogs. Enjoy!
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7 August 2023
Let the Bodies Pile
Henry Naylor is truly one of the great playwrights of our time, taking inspiration from the big sociopolitical events and distilling them down to an hour of thought-provoking theatre.
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6 August 2023
Siân Docksey: Pole Yourself Together
Existential millennial dread, hanging from a pole, for your entertainment
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6 August 2023
Kirsty Mann: Skeletons
Kirst has a secret. Something she's kept from her friends for over 10 years, and it's causing her to live a double life…
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6 August 2023
Patrick Susmilch: Texts From My Dead Friends
“An exploration of grief in the digital age”
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30 July 2023
Interview with actor, podcaster, and martial artist Darrel Bailey
"I don’t come from much- a struggling family growing up, but they were all very serious about me gaining an education and educating myself about the world, its history and my place in it."
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30 July 2023
Interview with comedian William Thompson
"This is probably the last interview I do before my full descent into madness. The next you hear of me, I could be living in the woods, feeding off Salmon and trying to get mobile data so I can stream GB News."
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29 July 2023
Interview with Matthew Greenhough, Creative Director of Wound Up Theatre
"People are being priced out, which is disgusting, and it’s increasingly exclusively a platform for posho’s launching their careers. But at its heart it still aspires to give little greebo no-hopers like me a chance. That’s special."
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29 July 2023
Interview with Natasha Sutton-Williams, award-winning queer, disabled writer and actor
Natasha's new show, 'Clown Sex', will be at Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August.
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29 July 2023
Interview with comedy writer & performer Brendan Murphy
"Before you commit to making a show to the fringe, it’s important to ask yourself *why* you’re doing it. What do you want to achieve? What is it that you’re hoping to buy up there? "
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29 July 2023
Interview with alternative comedian (and maths teacher) Cerys Bradley
"When I’m trying to write or paint or otherwise make physical things, I can get a block because of their permanence. But when you’re performing live, when it’s over it’s over and all we have left are memories which are malleable and imperfect."
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29 July 2023
Interview with Zach Zucker, host and creator of Stamptown Comedy Night
"All I could think about as I was laying facedown was how nice those $400 Australian Dollars would feel landing in my bank account."
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29 July 2023
Interview with comedian Aaron Simmonds
"A good week on the circuit, you’ll gig 5 times for 20 minutes. That’s just over an hour and a half total on stage and probably 15-30 hours in the car. At the fringe, you do an hour every single day, minimum."
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29 July 2023
Interview with the surreal, sketch, circus troupe Laser Kiwi
"We accidentally performed in a strip club in Canada... We thought it was going to be a variety show. I think we got paid $8 profit share and were slow clapped onstage by a father and son duo who were definitely not our target market."
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28 July 2023
Interview with Angela Beevers, writer, producer, and comedian
"I went to what’s known in the US as a charter school, which is code for very weird and strange theatre kid school where no one does any sports and instead all must be in band or choir and learn Latin, the most useful language of all."
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28 July 2023
Interview with Annabel Marlow, musician, comedian and actor
"I’ve been dreaming of taking my own show to The Fringe ever since I first went in 2017. Also, last year whenever I was out, I’d make myself say to people I met ‘well yeah I’m taking my show next year’ and get people excited, so now I like…have to."
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28 July 2023
Interview with Clementine Bogg-Hargroves and Zoey Barnes, Please Love Me
"Our show is a fairground ride in the rain that’s going a little too fast before a handbrake turn takes you to Banksy’s Dismaland. But you’re finding it funny and you’re wanting to dance."