Tag Archives: Edinburgh
Three Weeks Review – Two
Two – Free
Act One/Laughing Horse Free Festival
It was hard to know what I thought about this performance, a statement which may well be my worst criticism. Set in a Yorkshire Pub, Jim Cartwright’s light-hearted play links various characters within its setting – drunken boyfriends, nagging couples – all climaxing in dramatic confrontation. Though wrong to [...]
Review: Improvisation Workshop
Comedy Improvisation Workshop (Adults)
Spontaneity Shop
Improvisation is an art, not just a bit of fun. This workshop explores the necessary skills for well crafted narrative in performance, and inevitably an event of this variety may not be for the experienced performer, but for someone with casual interest it offers excellent experience which would entirely alter their [...]
Threeweeks Review – Ruskin (Live!)
Ruskin Live!
Paul O’Keefe
You are invited to travel back in time to the 19th century to experience, in its original form, a public lecture from the great John Ruskin. As a lecture experience it is interesting, and informative, and cannot be faulted, and neither can the performance by Paul O’Keefe which is perfection. However, the fault [...]
Threeweeks Review – Audition Workshop
Sweet Film-making Workshops: Audition Technique
Stuffed Animals Media & Sweet Entertainments
This is a feet on the ground, no nonsense workshop designed to help give a step up for young or aspiring performers considering a career in ‘the business’. Run by professional casting director Adam Morley, the event is geared to preparing individuals for an audition, offering [...]
Threeweeks Review – Gavin & Gavin
Gavin & Gavin – It’s A Long Road That Doesn’t Have A Bend
Gavin & Gavin
Sibling rivalry is the only redeeming feature of this lacklustre double act’s show. A pair of Irish sisters, as inseparable as ’shagging dogs’, recount their shared, and unfortunately bland, childhood. The mediocre biography aside, it is their lack of any comedy [...]
Threeweeks Review – Old Rope
Old Rope In The Courtyard
Tiffany Stevenson And Guest Hosts
Circuit comedians make their money from repeating old material night after night ad infinitum, a problem exacerbated by the format of the Edinburgh Festival. The excitable Phil Nichols offers the solution: a night where new or established acts try out untested material, or else hold onto ‘old [...]
Threeweeks Review – Rape Of Lucrece
The Rape Of Lucrece
Thievish Dog
Solo theatre is a commitment, but this was something else – stripped of any spectacle, this monologue is instead an irrelevant tale that is adequately explained by its title. A plethora of sentences is thrown and spat into a smattering of onlookers, the sheer quantity of words is admirable, and the [...]
Threeweeks Review – Alexis Dubus
Alexis Dubus – A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing
Alexis Dubus/ PBH’s Free Fringe
Shit me – or should I say Zounds – what a show. Anticipating the worst, I was amazed to find this was as unexpectedly funny as the Queen breaking wind. Dedicated to that most splendid of words, ‘fuck’, Dubus dispels the myths and [...]
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