Published on Thursday, 07 May 2015 |
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Just the Tonic at The Caves (venue website)
Musicals
1-12, 14-25 Aug, 9:00pm-10:00pm |
Recommended for age 14+ only.
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The cameras are rolling, the floor manager’s panicking and a nervous contestant is waiting off-stage. But this is no ordinary game show. In their sometimes-thoughtful, often-outrageous cabaret musical, Quite Nice Productions reprise the life of a recently-deceased young man… before we, the audience, are called on to decide whether to send him to Heaven or to Hell. |
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Published on Wednesday, 06 May 2015 |
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Assembly George Square (venue website)
Theatre
1-12, 14-19, 21-26 Aug, 12:15pm-1:30pm |
Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.
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If you’re of the right age and background, the very words “Big Daddy” and “Giant Haystacks” will bring a nostalgic smile to your lips. If you’re not, then here are the astonishing facts: at 4pm every Saturday from 1976 to 1988, up to 12 million Britons tuned in to ITV, and watched a 26-stone man called Shirley pretend to fight a six-foot-eleven giant in a sheepskin coat. And this fast-moving show, which won one of our Editors’ Choice awards at the Brighton Fringe a couple of years ago, tells the whole incredible story. |
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Published on Wednesday, 06 May 2015 |
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Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Comedy
31 Jul, 1-13, 15-26 Aug, 4:15pm-5:15pm |
Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.
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Ever since their first Fringe appearance a few years ago, we’ve been fans of dapper magicians Rhys Morgan and Rob West. Filling their shows with warming old-world charm, their act is founded on a simple but brilliant idea: that they’re real Victorian parlour magicians, who’ve voyaged into their future to bring their homely style of magic to our brasher modern age. But this year’s show marks a change of focus for the devious duo – because for once, there’s no time-travel involved. |
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Published on Monday, 04 May 2015 |
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Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Theatre
14-25 Aug, 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Recommended for age 12+ only.
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Think of an improv show, and you’ll probably think of madcap comedy from a gaggle of chirpy twenty-somethings. What The School Of Night do is rather different, but equally entertaining – and, if you’re the right kind of person, hugely rewarding too. Using actors from the hit improv musical The Showstoppers, the task they set themselves is no less than this: every day, they improvise a lost work of Shakespeare. |
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Published on Monday, 04 May 2015 |
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Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Comedy
31 Jul, 1-11, 13, 15-25 Aug, 5:30pm-6:30pm; 12 Aug, 5:30pm-6:30pm, 9:30pm-10:30pm |
Recommended for age 14+ only.
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Welcome, watchers of illusion, to the castle of confusion. If you grew up in the right decade, the very name Knightmare may be enough to send you side-stepping to the box office – eager to recapture the innocent fantasies of a simpler, more wide-eyed age. But if, on the other hand, you weren’t a teenager in the early nineties… then perhaps we’d better explain. |
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Published on Monday, 04 May 2015 |
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Pleasance Courtyard (venue website)
Theatre
31 Jul, 1-12, 14-26 Aug, 7:10pm-8:00pm |
Recommended for age 12+ only.
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For today’s preview we’ve picked out a brand-new play, based on an intriguing real-life story and from a company that’s impressed us in the past. Kubrick³ – pronounced “Kubrick Cubed”, we assume – tells the tale of London travel agent Alan Conway, who for a few bizarre years in the 1990’s convinced some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry that he was the reclusive film director Stanley Kubrick. |
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Published on Sunday, 03 May 2015 |
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Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Comedy
2-21, 23-25 Aug, 10:30pm-11:40pm |
Recommended for age 14+ only.
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A musical performed for one night only – because it’s composed on the spot. That’s the ambitious promise of The Showstoppers, the cult sensation returning for its sixth year on the Fringe, which in each performance weaves together a song-filled show from the threads of suggestions shouted out by that night’s crowd. It sounds impossible… but if its constellation of five-star reviews is anything to go by, it’s actually just impossibly good. |
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Published on Sunday, 03 May 2015 |
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C venues - C (venue website)
Theatre
31 Jul, 1-11, 13-26 Aug, 10:00am-10:55am |
Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.
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We confess. This is one preview we trot out every year... but that's because we always look forward to this tongue-in-cheek homage to the Bard. Amazingly, it's the 22nd annual instalment of C Venues' Stratford-themed knockabout, served – as always – with coffee and croissants at the very start of the Festival day. And if previous years are a guide, Shakespeare buffs and lay-people alike will find plenty to tickle their humour, in what usually proves a cheerful, great-value show. |
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Published on Saturday, 02 May 2015 |
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Hill Street Theatre (venue website)
Theatre
1-12, 14-25 Aug, 2:15pm-3:15pm |
Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.
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Our pick today is solidly traditional, thoroughly unchallenging… and in every way perfectly delightful. A warm-hearted one-man adaptation of Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, we first spotted this show at this year’s Brighton Fringe – where actor Nigel Nevinson impressed us with his mastery of the character and instantly-likeable style. |
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Published on Saturday, 02 May 2015 |
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Underbelly, Cowgate (venue website)
Comedy
1-13, 15-25 Aug, 8:40pm-9:40pm |
Recommended for age 12+ only.
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How to describe The Dark Room? In 2012, we settled for “innovative, funny, exciting, dark-as-hell brilliance”. An unexpected word-of-mouth hit last year, The Dark Room is a lo-fi improvised game show, hosted by Aussie comedian John Robertson. Describing himself as “a brutal Old Testament God, who loves grammar and hates you”, Robertson invites selected audience members to navigate a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style maze – in the hope of escaping the eponymous “dark room” and winning a real-world prize. |
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