Johnny Pelham: I Don’t Think You Get To Choose What Kind Of Comic You Are
Things were going brilliantly for Bradford-born stand-up Johnny Pelham. His 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show won rave reviews and he was...
Claire Smith is a news and feature writer who has written for many years about the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She has written about cabaret, comedy, theatre and spoken word and has a particular fondness for the wild, the avant garde and the eccentric.
Things were going brilliantly for Bradford-born stand-up Johnny Pelham. His 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show won rave reviews and he was...
Viggo Venn started to realise something was up when Amanda Holden handed him a photograph of her mum in a...
ON THE RUN is about a woman finding herself. While Fiona Allen was already well known as one of the...
He sings, he dances, he talks a hundred miles an hour and he’s guaranteed to make you laugh. Blonde, Australian,...
National Theatre of Scotland World Premiere Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh It’s not too much of a stretch to replay Kidnapped...
The play begins with a huge empty stage, with only a bucket, a chair and a tap. “What did we expect,”...
Charles Dickens is often associated with Victorian London - but the author was also a frequent visitor to Edinburgh. And...
It feels special to be back in a theatre decorated with baubles and Christmas trees, where little girls in red...
Towards the end of the novel Pride and Prejudice - as Elizabeth Bennett considers her happiness with Mr Darcy, in...
“At the moment if you are woman over 40 and have an opnion it means you’re a ‘Karen’ - but...