360 Allstars is a fully-amped, family-friendly showcase of what the show calls ‘urban circus.’ If the X-Games made a family circus, this is probably what it would look like. Boasting skills including break dancing, BMX flatlanding, basketball freestyling, and Roue Cyr (the lone traditional circus element in the show), each performer struts their stuff in […]

‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ is the tag line for Souvenirs. There’s a pile of boxes and shelves at the rear of the performance space, boasting a hotch-potch of everyday objects and ornaments, looking very much like a display in any one of the many Edinburgh charity shops just five minutes walk away […]

As we enter the space, a woman is standing on the empty stage. She’s fairly young, tall, slim, pale skinned, auburn haired, attractive in an understated way. Dressed in a short floral dress, bare-legged, no obvious make-up. If we had to be more specific, we’d say that she looks like a typical educated, personable young […]

Perhaps the most riveting performance at this year’s fringe features seven dancers who never move their feet. Correction begins with seven people standing still in a line across the stage. Four musicians sit behind them wearing black. The rest of the theatre is empty with the exception of a pair of shoes on the far […]

There’s a brand new circus venue at the Edinburgh Fringe! No, I don’t mean Circus Hub (although that too). What I’m talking about is Big Sexy Circus at Fountainbridge. A large site, with two tents – which they miraculously managed to erect and rig in the wind and rain of the Edinburgh summer. It can […]