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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13 July 2024
Interview with comedian and actor Dr Jo Prendergast
"From my 3-week Melbourne Comedy Festival experience, I found comedy shows become like castles. I start staring at them with a glazed expression after the first dozen!"
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13 July 2024
Interview with comedian Gearoid Farrelly
"One year at the fringe a very drunk couple in their 70s were snogging in my front row. It was adorable but also really unnerving. Things started to escalate and I had to put a stop to it."
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13 July 2024
Interview with comedian and musician Jaz Mattu
"I got a review that said I needed to figure out what my comedy offered audiences. That stayed with me. I have always done art for art's sake. However, what is art if it's not viewed by anyone?"
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26 March 2024
West End Actor Interrogates Stereotyping Faced by Latinx People in Soho Theatre Solo Show
Guido García Lueches and MarianaMalena Theatre Co. present Playing Latinx at Soho Theatre, Wednesday 10 - Saturday 13 April, 10.30pm
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22 March 2024
Ian Stone Announces Edinburgh Fringe Show & UK Tour ‘Ian Stone is Keeping it Together’
Ian will return to Edinburgh Fringe in August with a new show, ‘Ian Stone is Keeping it Together’, from 1-25 August (not 12th) at Counting House Ballroom before embarking on his first UK national tour in September.
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19 October 2023
Interview with comedian Maria DeCotis
I spoke to Maria about her experiences at her first Fringe, the realities of being a woman in comedy, and what it was like going viral during lockdown
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8 September 2023
Interview with two-time Fringe First Award winners Xhloe and Natasha
With two sellout Fringe shows nearing the end of their run, Xhloe and Natasha sat down with me to discuss their second year at Fringe, their decade-long friendship, and their imaginary billionaire friend, Bippy, who helps them fund their shows.
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8 September 2023
Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me
An obscenely unapologetic hour of hard-hitting truths and outrageous laughs
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29 August 2023
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
A remarkable multimedia experience which, in seeking to solve a murder, deconstructs our most basic beliefs of what we can know about the world in which we live
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24 August 2023
Havana Street Party
There is not a single thing about this show you cannot love with your entire being
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24 August 2023
YUCK Circus
A riotously entertaining blend of killer acrobatics, marvellous comedy and glorious subversion
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24 August 2023
N.Ormes
A surprising and evocative exploration of our expectations of gender, and all the things we can do when we step away from them
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24 August 2023
Voice Magazine's Acapella Live! Competition 2023
We at Voice were thrilled to sponsor theSpace UK’s 2023 Acapella Live Competition at Edinburgh Fringe. Voice Contributor Sam Nead joined the judging panel; read her thoughts on the competition here!
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18 August 2023
Dark Noon
“The best way to kill an African story is to tell it in English”. Dark Noon challenges the boundaries of theatre - a digital, visual, auditory, and sensual experience.
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18 August 2023
Blub Blub
A socio-political examination, wrapped up in a charming puppetry-cum-physical theatre show
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18 August 2023
Stamptown Comedy Night
Clowning at its most daring and ridiculous. Stamptown is a crazy comedy party you’re all invited to.
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18 August 2023
Annabel Marlow: Is this okay??
Annabel Marlow tells us it’s ok to laugh at the little things in her musical one-woman comedy ‘is this okay??’