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Interview: Dave Chawner
Dave Chawner is an award-winning comic, published author and mental health campaigner. He’s been featured in the Guardian, the Independent, the Metro, Tomorrow’s World, Mental Health in the Metropolis, and BBC Breakfast. His Fringe show, Mental, is a vulnerable look...
Fringe review | Lou Sanders: Shame Pig | ★★★★
Lou Sanders is breathless, verging on hysteria, but free from shame. With help from her Shame Brain, she talks through her worst moments to explain why there’s no point in dwelling on embarrassing times gone by. While the show is a whirlwind ride through...
Fringe review | Rob Auton: The Talk Show | ★★★★★
'We have to make the most of the things we see and catch them in our thought nets.' Rob Auton's show is centred on talking - about the importance of talking, its sheer mundanity, and the beauty that can come from words. Auton has mastered the art - he sweeps...
Fringe review | Laura Lexx: Trying | ★★★★
Laura Lexx’s Trying is a show packed with nostalgia - memories of growing up in the 80s, and holidays in the 90s: making friends in French campsites, Pez dispensers, snap-on bracelets. There’s real admiration and love for her family, particularly her sisters...
Fringe review | Duke Pop | ★★★★
Duke Pop - aka Sophie Duker and Lulu Popplewell - are taking turns in the spotlight. Tonight, Duker goes first, immediately charismatic as she chats about making resolutions to stay mentally sane and physically well. She discusses not being a white man, being...
Fringe review | Power Play: Funeral Flowers | ★★★★★
Funeral Flowers blooms and flourishes through the rooms of a flat. From cluttered kitchen to sparse bedroom, the scent of lilies and sunflowers cling to Angelique’s words. They’re easy to embrace: jagged, tuneful, they scrawl crude pictures of the people and...
Fringe preview | Edinburgh Book Fringe
Edinburgh Book Fringe is a collaboration between two of Edinburgh’s leading lights in indie bookshops, Lighthouse and Golden Hare Books. Here are our top picks from their wonderful and diverse programme. Capital, Sacrifice and Two Centuries of Marx Terry...
Fringe review | A Generous Lover | ★★★★
One person is tailspinning into mental illness, another is hopeless and confused, and the legend of Orpheus in the underworld bubbles along underneath. A Generous Lover is part recitation, part hellscape recounting the helplessness of navigating mental health...
Fringe review | Prom Kween | ★★★★
Being in love when you’re 17 is the fucking worst. Prom Kween is a high school movie musical pastiche about getting out the other side as mentally unscathed as possible. The rivalry about who will be crowned Prom Queen is in full swing: will it be mean...
Fringe review | Jim Campbell: Trampoline | ★★★
Jim Campbell’s got an engagement ring to sell. So, this is - clearly - a show about love. Love is unavoidable in every song, TV show, film (and wedding). Love is confusing: Campbell thought he had it all figured out, but apparently not. We don’t get...