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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6 August 2018
Tom Houghton: The Honourable
A funny, emotional and totally unrelatable show by a charming - and completely fascinating - comedian
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6 August 2018
Richard Todd: We need the eggs
This is a show about the irrational pursuit of the absurd. Richard is amenable and generated some bursts of laughter.
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6 August 2018
Murder She Didn't Write
A promising show with good actors, an enjoyable premise and very much a crowd pleaser.
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6 August 2018
Catherine Bohart: Immaculate
A pleasant hour of comedy as Bohart tells personal stories from her life as a bisexual with OCD.
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6 August 2018
Julia Sutherland: Exposed
Exposed showcases the kind of confessional, conversational humour found at the pub, but an over-reliance on props and audience participation failed to achieve a coherent flow.
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6 August 2018
Suzi Ruffell: Nocturnal
Suzi Ruffell's Nocturnal is a joyous hour of stand-up which manages to create an atmosphere of hopefulness while discussing the dismal state of the world. Confronting internet trolls, pervy monks and the mundanity of hen-dos, Ruffell delivers her material with empathy, expert timing and the ease that only comfy shoes can afford.
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5 August 2018
Roman Fraden: Back in the Closet
I very much doubt his explosive energy can be contained in the closet
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5 August 2018
The Tape Face Show
An hour of real, high-quality, hilarious entertainment by a master of comedy
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5 August 2018
Rose Matafeo: Horndog
A hilarious, mad comedian with more energy than a kid with a sugar rush on Christmas morning
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5 August 2018
Interview with Young Pleasance
I spoke to Kishore, Katie and Eliana from Young Pleasance (YP) about their experiences as young performers at the Fringe and why the arts are important to them
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5 August 2018
Narcissist in the Mirror
An intriguing mish-mash of energetic dialogue and spoken word portrays this often amusing story of an unreliable narcissist who just doesn’t know themselves as well as they think they do.
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5 August 2018
Ivo Graham: Motion Sickness
Ivo Graham is hurtling towards adulthood: he’s engaged, he’s got a mortgage - and he’s finally started buying his own socks. Motion Sickness is a smoothly crafted hour exploring one millenial’s growing pains, and the unexpected anxieties and delights that arise along the way.
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5 August 2018
Pleasance Bytes interview with Jeremy Stockwell
In a series of free interviews, leading journalist Mark Fisher gets inside the heads of some of the festival's finest performers. This time it's Jeremy Stockwell, star of Ken and a Sockful of Custard.
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5 August 2018
Di and Viv and Rose (in an hour)
If you’re looking for vibrant characters and complex issues dealt with in a humanly flawed way, then this is the show for you. It’s thought-provoking, nostalgia building and heart-wrenchingly good.
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5 August 2018
Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show
A show with all the charm and heart you would expect from a six-year-old… and all the inconsistencies .
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5 August 2018
Jacqueline Novak: How embarrassing for her
An hour of unabashedly rude and joyfully crude comedy