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2010 Edinburgh Fringe Index

Previews

Underbelly breaks ranks

Five Guys Named Moe to be revived

Festival Highlights programme announced

Facts from the 2010 programme

The Traverse announces its programme

Sex trafficking play London previews

News

Last ever Guy Masterson Animal Farm

Fringe First Awards week 1

Fringe First Awards week 2

Nominations for The Stage Acting Awards

Fringe Blog

During this year's Fringe, actor Christopher Dingli will be blogging about his experiences taking part in Emma Thompson presents: Fair Trade at the Pleasance Dome and generally about the Fringe and the run-up to it.

Prologue (or close encounters of the smelly kind)
Rehearsals and a wedding singer
The last day
Me in a dress
Latitude day 1
Latitude first night
Latitude day 2
Latitude day 3
Latitude day 4
The last day at Latitude
London shows
Edinburgh - an introduction
The Arrival
Hecklers and The Venga Boys
I believe I can Fly(er)
A Personal Invite to Some Nudity (Maybe)
Comedy Misery
A Day off and Friends
Down Time
Housemate Antics
Arthur’s Seat Folly
The End is Nigh!
Bye Bye Burghie

Reviews

10 Dates With Mad Mary
By Yasmine Akram
Pleasance Dome
*****

101
C soco
***

6766
Zoo Roxy
**

Adam Hills: Mess Around
Assembly on The Mound
****

Against The Odds
By Jade Blue
Hill Street Theatre
****

Aleister Crowley: A Passion for Evil
C Central
**

Ali McGregor’s Jazz Cigarette
Assembly @ George St
*****

Allegations
By Mandisi Gobodi
The Zoo
*****

Anatomy Act
Freddy Syborn
C soco
*****

Anomienaulis
By Chris Chen
Augustine's
***

Antigone
By Sophocles, in a new version by Alexander Wright
C Soco
*

Apples
By John Retallack, adapted from the novel by Richard Milward
Traverse at St Stephens
****

Are You There?
The Zoo
***

Art
By Yasmina Reza
Sweet Grassmarket
****

Assassins
By Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
The Royal College of Physicians
****

Atrium
By James Wilkes
C soco
***

The Author
By Tim Crouch
Traverse 2
****

Axis of Awesome: Songs in the Key of Awesome
Gilded Balloon
*****

Azincourt
By Jeremy James Taylor with music by David Nield
The Edinburgh Academy
**(*)

Baby Wants Candy
Assembly Hall
****

The Bacchae
The Bacchae
Venue 13
***

Bane
By Joe Bone
The GRV
*****

Bane 2
By Joe Bone
Pleasance Dome
****

Beautiful Burnout
By Bryony Lavery
Pleasance Courtyard
****

The Big Bite-Sized Breakfast
Assembly Rooms
****

Blackout
By Davey Anderson
Underbelly
****

Blackout
The Space Jury Inn
****

Bliss
By Olivier Choinière, translated by Caryl Churchill
C aquila
***

Blowers and Bly: Bald Bold and Belligerent
Venue 150 at EICC
***

A Brief History of Scotland - We Done Loads
Sweet Grassmarket
***

Bunny
By Jack Thorne
Underbelly
****

Burst
By Omar El-Khairy
The Zoo
****

Cactus : The Seduction
By Jonno Katz
Assembly Rooms
***

The Cage
By Dugald Bruce Lockhart
Pleasance Dome
****

Call Mr Robeson: A Life, With Songs
Zoo Southside
*****

The Call of Cthulhu
Hill Street Theatre
****

Camille O’Sullivan: Chameleon
Assembly @ George St
****

The Cardboard Metropolis
By Hannah Tottenham
C aquila
**

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht
The Zoo
****

Cautionary Tales
Zoo Roxy
****

The Changeling
Underbelly
***

The Chinese State Circus Mulan
Ocean Terminal Big Top
****

Cirque de Legume
Gilded Balloon
**

Clever Peter: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Pleasance Dome
*****

A Clockwork Orange
By Anthony Burgess
theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson
*

Colours
By Rory Kilalea
Assembly Hall
**

A Commedia of Errors
C Chambers St
**

The Crying Cherry
C Chambers Street
***

Daniel Sloss: My Generation
Pleasance Dome
***

The Day The Sky Turned Black
Ali Kennedy-Scott
C soco
***

Dead
By Mike Elliston
Space on The Mile
**

Death of a Samurai
Augustine's.
****

Death of the Unicorn
By Stephanie Roberts
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall
**

Decky Does a Bronco
By Douglas Maxwell
Traverse Scotland Yard
*****

Deepchurch Hollow
The Space @ Venue 45
**

The Degenerates
C Main
*

The Demise of Christopher Marlowe
By Sarah Goddard
C Central
***

Derelict
The Zoo
***

Djupid (The Deep)
By Jon Atli Jonasson
Underbelly
*****

Do We Look Like Refugees?!
By Alecky Blythe
Assembly Rooms
***

The Doctor and the Devils
Venue 45
***

Double Booked
By Ginny Davis
Pleasance Courtyard
**

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
By Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon
Churchill Theatre
****

Dusk on the River Nile
Zoo Roxy
**

Dyslexia: The Musikal
The Spaces on the Mile @ The Radisson
***

Elsie and Mairi Go to War
By Diane Atkinson
Dovecot
***

En Route
By One Step at a Time Like This
Traverse
****

Evening With Dementia
By Trevor T Smith
The Space Radisson
*****

An Evening With Elsie Parsons
By Richard Cameron
The Dome on George St
***

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
Churchill Theatre
**

Expectations
By Kristina Brändén
Pleasance Dome
****

Face
By Haerry Kim
C soco
*****

Fair Trade
By Shelley Davenport and Anna Holbek
Pleasance Dome
****

Farm Boy
By Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Daniel Buckroyd
Assembly Rooms
****

First Love
By Samuel Beckett
Pleasance Courtyard
*** / ****

Five Clever Courtesans
C Aquila
**

Five Guys Named Moe
Book by Clarke Peters, Music and Lyrics by Louis Jordan
Underbelly's McEwan Hall
****

Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
By Alan Ball
The Radisson
****

Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl
By Geoff Robelle and Charlotte Ford
Traverse at St Stephens
****

Flor De Muerto
Bedlam Theatre
***

Following Wendy
C Soco
****

Freefall
By Michael West
Traverse 1
****

The Friendship Experiment
Underbelly
*

The Gay Geese
By Anna Forsyth
C central
**

The Girl in the Yellow Dress
By Craig Higginson
Traverse 2
**

Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Gutted
Assembly
**(*)

Harlekin
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Haunted
Dance Base – National Centre for Dance
****

Homo Asbo
By Richard Fry
Gilded Balloon
**

Honest
By DC Moore
Assembly Rooms Milne’s Bar, Hanover Street
****

Hot Mess
By Ella Hickson
Hawke and Hunter Bar
****

Hotel Nowhere
theSpace on the Mile @ Jury's Inn
***

House of Mirrors and Hearts
By Eamonn O’Dwyer & Robert Gilbert
C Chambers Street
**

How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: Reloaded
Zoo Southside
****

Howling
The Vault
**

I, Elizabeth
By Rebecca Vaughan
Assembly Rooms
***

I'm Still Here: Peter Straker
Ghillie Dhu
*****

Imperial Fizz
By Brian Parks
Assembly Rooms
****

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: All Is Vanity (Or With Apologies to Nathalie Sarraute)
By David Eldridge
Traverse 2
***

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: My Friend Duplicity
By Enda Walsh
Traverse 2
****

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Quartet
By Marina Carr
Traverse 2
****

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: T5
By Simon Stephens
Traverse 2
****

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: This is Water
By Linda McLean
Traverse 2
****

In Memory
By Victoria Harvey-Seldon
C Chambers Street
****

The Inconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid
Bedlam Theatre
***

Invisible Atom
By Anthony Black
Hill Street Theatre
*****

It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
By Daniel Kitson
Traverse 1
*****

Jack the Knife
By Jack Klaff
Assembly Rooms
**

Jacobite Country
By Henry Adam
Udderbelly Cowbarn
*

Jewish Chronicles
By Daniel Cainer
C Aquila
**

Jim Jefferies - Alcoloholocaust
McEwan Hall, Udderbelly's Pasture
***

Joe Rowntree: Peaceful Worrier
Gilded Balloon
***

Jordan
By Anna Reynolds with Moira Buffini
Assembly Rooms
*****

Junk
By John Retallack based on the Book by Melvyn Burgess
Augustines
***

Just Macbeth
By Andy Griffiths
Assembly Rooms
***

Kaspar
C soco
***(*)

Keepers
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Kindly Leave The Stage
By John Chapman
C Central
***

Laura Solon, The Owl of Steven
Pleasance Courtyard
***

Leaping God Sly
Bedlam Theatre
***

The Leonardo Question
By Caroline Wiseman
Zoo Roxy
(*)

Pas Perdus
Zoo Southside
****

Letters Home
C Main
**

Lidless
By Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Udderbelly
****

Lipstick
Rachel Yoder
Hill Street Theatre
**

Little Black Bastard
By Noel Tovey
Gilded Balloon
****

Lockerbie: Unfinished Business
By David Benson
Gilded Balloon Teviot
*****

Long Live the King
By Ansuya Nathan
Assembly Rooms
****

Lorca Is Dead
By Dominic J Allen
C Soco
****

The Love Story
By Freddy Syborn
C Soco
****

Lovesong
By Ché Walker
Pleasance Dome
**

The Man Who Fell Out Of The Bed
By Paul Sellar
C Central
***(*)

The Mandrake
By Niccolò Machiavelli
Zoo Southside
**

Marat / Sade
By Peter Weiss
The Space Surgeons
****

Mark Watson : Do I Know You?
Assembly Hall
*****

The Master and Margarita
Adapted from the book by Mikhail Bulgakov
C Soco
****

Max and Ivan
C Central
****

Memory Cells
By Louise Welsh
Pleasance Dome
****

Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
C Soco
****

Metamorphoses
By Ovid
Pleasance Dome
*****

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
C Chambers Street
*

Midsummer Night’s Madness
By The Company after William Shakespeare
C Chambers Street
*****

Miles Jupp : Fibber in the Heat (A Cricket Tale)
Gilded Balloon
****

Miranda
By Farrukh Dhondy
Assembly Rooms
***

Misconception
By Bill Dare
Assembly Rooms
***

Mission of Flowers
C Aquila
***

Mr Kolpert
By David Gieselmann, translated by David Tushingham
C Soco
***

Mushy Ate My Credit Card
By Mark Brailsford
Hill Street Theatre
****

Mussolini: A One Man Political Farce
By Ross Gurney-Randall
Hill Street Theatre
**

My Hamlet
By Linda Marlowe
Assembly Rooms
***

My Romantic History
By DC Jackson
Traverse 2
**

Mysterious Skin
Based on the novel by Scott Hein, adapted by Prince Gomolvias
Gilded Balloon
**

Next! Death by Audition
By Kiki Kendrick
Assembly Hall
***

No Child …
By Nilaja Sun
Assembly Rooms
*****

The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo
By Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison
Traverse 1
***

Odyssey
By Dominic J Allen after Homer
C soco
****

The Odyssey
By Homer, adapted by George Mann and Nir Poldi
Pleasance Dome
****

Of People and Not Things
By Andrew Hungerford
The Vault
****

Of Women and Horses I Have Known
By Susanna Hislop
Underbelly
**

Oi! For England
By Trevor Griffiths
Venue 13
***

Oliver Twist
By Charles Dickens
The Spaces @ Surgeons Hall
****

Operation Greenfield
Zoo Roxy
****(*)

Others
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Our Share of Tomorrow
By Dan Sherer
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Pappy's: All Business
By Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Paul Merton's Impro Chums
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Pedal Pusher
Zoo Roxy
****

Pedestrian
By Tom Wainwright
Underbelly
****

Penelope
By Enda Walsh
Traverse 1
***

The Penelopiad
By Margaret Atwood
Churchill Theatre
****

A Pint For The Ghost
By Helen Mort
The Banshee Labyrinth
***

Plague: The Musical
By David Massingham and Matt Townend
C Chambers Street
***

Playhouse Creatures
By April De Angelis
Quaker Meeting House
****

Poem Without a Hero
Anna Akhmatova
C Venues
***

Private Peaceful
By Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Simon Reade
Augustines
**

Rachel Rose Reid: I’m Hans Christian Andersen
By Rachel Rose Reid
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Reel-to-Real: The Movies Musical
By Josie Balfour
Pleasance Grand
*****

Reginald D. Hunter – Trophy Niggah
Pleasance Courtyard
***

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
C central
***

Reverie
Pleasance Dome
***

Reykjavík
By Jonathan Young
The Bongo Club
***

Richard Herring: Christ on a Bike – The Second Coming
Assembly George Street
***

The Rimers of Eldritch
By Lanford Wilson
Vault 45
****

Roadkill
Traverse
*****

The Rope in Your Hands
By Siobhan O'Loughlin
Quaker Meeting House
**

Sadie Hasler: Lady Bones
Pleasance Courtyard
**

The Second Star to the Right
C Soco
**(*)

Sex Idiot
By Bryony Kimmings
Zoo Roxy
***

Shakespeare - The Man from Stratford
By Jonathan Bate
Assembly Hall
****

Silent Cannonfire
Zoo Roxy
***

The Silver Darlings
By Neil M Gunn, adapted by Peter Arnott
Assembly Rooms
****

Six And A Half Loves
By Terry Saunders
Pleasance Courtyard
***

A Slacker's Guide to Western Theatre
By Stephen Challens
Bedlam
***

Soho Storeys
By Tim Norton with music by Ned Bennett
Pleasance Grand
****

A Solitary Choice
By Sheila Duncan
Assembly Rooms
****

Some Georgeous Accident
By James Kinnaway, adapted by Robert Shaw
Assembly on the Mound
**

Something About Jumpers
Sweet Grassmarket
****

Song of Extinction
By EM Lewis
Venue 13
****

Speechless
By Linda Brogan and Polly Teale
Traverse 2
***

Spring Awakening
Music by Duncan Sheik, Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater, based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Pleasance Courtyard
****

Stationary Excess
By Tim Cowbury
Underbelly
****

Still
Choreography by Thomas Small
Zoo Southside
***

Story Shakespeare: King Lear
By William Shakespeare
C too
**

Sub Rosa
David Leddy
Hill Street Theatre
****

Sunset Song
By Lewis Grassic Gibbon, adapted by Alistair Cording
Assembly Rooms
*****

Suspicious Package
C too
***

Swann & Company Present: The Sad, Miserable Tale of Albert Belacqua and His Family of Doomed Neurotics
C Aquila
****

Tabú
Nofit State Circus, Leith Walk
*****

Tea Dance
Fly Right Dance Company
****

Teenage Riot
By Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet and the Company
Traverse 1
***

The Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Mary Of Guise Barge
***(*)

The Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus
By Edward Wren
Bedlam Theatre
****

Thoroughly Modern Willie
C main
****

Threshold
By Fred Gordon, Lowri Jenkins and Thomas McMullan
Zoo Roxy
*****

Tokyo Love Song
By Shoko Ito
C soco
***

Touching The Blue
Assembly George Street
****

The Track of the Cat
Adapted by Chris Fittock from the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
C
**(*)

Tristram Shandy
The Space Surgeons
*

Uber Hate Gang
By Philip Stokes
Underbelly
***

Underneath the Lintel
By Glen Berger
Assembly Rooms
****

Up ‘n’ Under
By John Godber
Assembly Rooms
****

The Vaudevillains
Pleasance Dome
*****

The Virtuous Burglar
By Dario Fo, Translated by Joseph Farrell
Assembly Rooms
****

Virtuous Flock
C Soco
****

W;t
By Margaret Edson
C Aquila
***

Waiting for Lefty
By Clifford Odets
Pleasance Courtyard
****

When the Sex is Gone
Underbelly Cowgate
****

Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You
The Zoo
***

While You Lie
By Sam Holcroft
Traverse 2
*****

White
By Andy Manley
Traverse at the Scottish Storytelling Centre
****

Wonderland
By Gyles Brandreth and Susannah Pearse
Assembly Rooms
***

You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy
By Caroline Horton
Pleasance Dome
****

Zambezi Express
Music and Lyrics Saimon Mbazo Gumede
Assembly Hall
****

 

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The Ratings

***** - Brilliant! Kill for a ticket
**** - Very good indeed - well worth seeing
*** - A good show of its type
** - There are shows which are more worth seeing
* - Poor!

Best Bets

Just able to see a few shows? Want to know what's the very best? Here are our Five Star shows:

10 Dates With Mad Mary
Ali McGregor’s Jazz Cigarette
Allegations
Anatomy Act
Axis of Awesome: Songs in the Key of Awesome
Bane
Call Mr Robeson: A Life, With Songs
Clever Peter: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Decky Does a Bronco
Djupid (The Deep)
Evening With Dementia
Face
I'm Still Here: Peter Straker
Invisible Atom
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Jordan
Lockerbie: Unfinished Business
Mark Watson : Do I Know You?
Metamorphoses
Midsummer Night’s Madness
No Child …
Reel-to-Real: The Movies Musical
Roadkill
Sunset Song
Tabú
Threshold
The Vaudevillains
While You Lie

 

 

©Peter Lathan 2010