Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

AnimalParts theatre co.: Tenderpits

AnimalParts theatre co.: Tenderpits

August 26th, 2012 by

I’m in a dingy makeshift theatre space below ground, I’ve hardly slept, and I’m watching a man in a nappy full of glitter pretend to masturbate in front of an image of the Brooklyn Bridge whilst a stuffed monkey looks on. I am definitely at the Fringe. Tenderpits absolutely reeks of fringe theatre. It’s a live […]

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People Show: People Show 121: The Detective Show ¦ Photo: © Sadie Cook

People Show: People Show 121: The Detective Show

August 26th, 2012 by

People Show formed in 1966 and The Detective Show is their 121st production. This was my first encounter with People Show, and it won’t be my last – the show was absolutely hilarious. To begin with, Gareth Brierley takes us through the copy on our flyers to explain that this was written six months before the show […]

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Bootworks Theatre: 30 Days to Edinburgh

Bootworks Theatre: 30 Days to Edinburgh

August 26th, 2012 by

‘A Spaceman, a Cowboy and a Disco-Dancer are going on a journey. A journey undertaken in the spirit of discovery. There’s a gig that they’ve got to get to and they’re the performers. The gig’s 468 miles away and they’ve only their feet to get them there. This will be 30 Days to Edinburgh.’ And they […]

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Guilherme Leme: The Stranger

Guilherme Leme: The Stranger

August 25th, 2012 by

He seems a decent sort, this man Meursault, present at his mother’s funeral but not overwhelmed with grief. They had had an understanding and neither needed nor expected anything more of each other than they had. She had been at a happy point in her life, content in the place she lived and with a […]

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Tom Marshman: Legs 11

Tom Marshman: Legs 11

August 25th, 2012 by

In which Tom Marshman takes us on a journey from Leg Shame to Leg Fame, telling the story of how he survived the pain and trauma of varicose veins, gaining a place in the Pretty Polly Legs 11 final. Along the way, we get an investigation of gender expectations, and liberation from those expectations, in […]

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