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Edinburgh fringe with the family: five shows for kids

www.silverguide.site – A lively, wriggly tube creature, mesmerising birds for babies and a joyful take on Joyce’s Ulysses will delight young audiences at this year’s festival…
Edinburgh fringe with the family: five shows for kids

Dance People review – join Edinburgh festival’s promenade of protest and play

www.silverguide.site – Lebanese choreographer Omar Rajeh’s outdoor dance fizzes with communal energy but its overstuffed concept blunts its political impact…
Dance People review – join Edinburgh festival’s promenade of protest and play

Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie review – the edgiest One Direction fanfic on the fringe

www.silverguide.site – The 2023 best newcomer winner rebuts her ‘mild’ reputation with choice quips and boyband erotica…
Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie review – the edgiest One Direction fanfic on the fringe

Standing in the Shadows of Giants review – Lucie Barât looks back at spiral during Libertines’ rise

www.silverguide.site – Sibling envy, a stumbling acting career and addiction are covered in an indistinctive show by the sister of Carl…
Standing in the Shadows of Giants review – Lucie Barât looks back at spiral during Libertines’ rise

When Billy Met Alasdair review – two Scottish giants happily collide

www.silverguide.site – Alan Bissett embodies both the expansive Big Yin and the detached author of Lanark in a thoughtful, entertaining search for their connection…
When Billy Met Alasdair review – two Scottish giants happily collide

Lost Lear review – Shakespeare’s king holds court in a care home

www.silverguide.site – In Dan Colley’s evocative play, a retired actor with dementia loops through scenes from the classic tragedy…
Lost Lear review – Shakespeare’s king holds court in a care home

Works and Days review – wild ride charts the arc of human progress

www.silverguide.site – Performers dig up the stage, roll in the sack and merge with machines in Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman’s arresting show…
Works and Days review – wild ride charts the arc of human progress

Every Brilliant Thing review – Lenny Henry gets audience on board for list of life’s joys

www.silverguide.site – Henry is the first of a group of star performers taking Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s hit show about depression into the West End…
Every Brilliant Thing review – Lenny Henry gets audience on board for list of life’s joys

Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian

www.silverguide.site – Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour…
Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian

‘Casually jaw-dropping’: at an Edinburgh fringe of tricks and treats, Ben Hart has the magic touch

www.silverguide.site – The sense of wonder never wavers in Hart’s charming ‘best of’ set, a fringe favourite in a year of crowd-pleasing card work, mentalism and a hidden-squirrel routine…
‘Casually jaw-dropping’: at an Edinburgh fringe of tricks and treats, Ben Hart has the magic touch

No Apologies review – what if Kurt Cobain was transgender?

www.silverguide.site – In a poetic performance, former teenage grunge obsessive Emma Frankland takes heart from a fantasy about the Nirvana musician…
No Apologies review – what if Kurt Cobain was transgender?

Good Night, Oscar review – Sean Hayes brings panache to tense talkshow encounter

www.silverguide.site – Will & Grace star reprises his Tony award-winning role as Oscar Levant in Doug Wright’s play about a ratings-crucial TV interview…
Good Night, Oscar review – Sean Hayes brings panache to tense talkshow encounter

Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material review – an eccentric hour from a fringe fledgling

www.silverguide.site – The south Londoner’s avian theme frames a fine debut about family, neurodivergence, pigeons, pigeons and more pigeons…
Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material review – an eccentric hour from a fringe fledgling

Hamlet: Wakefulness review – fraught and full-throated musical tragedy

www.silverguide.site – Polish company’s musical take on Shakespeare’s death-fixated drama is full of feeling, but its story never really sings…
Hamlet: Wakefulness review – fraught and full-throated musical tragedy

Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: Dead!!! (Good Fun Time) review – garish grins

www.silverguide.site – After last year’s Live!!! Kent-Walters’s hilariously monstrous alter ego has returned from hell to reclaim his club from gentrifying usurper Vegas Dave…
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: Dead!!! (Good Fun Time) review – garish grins

Hot Mess review – blazing musical about Earth and humanity’s toxic love affair

www.silverguide.site – With brilliant one-liners, dazzling music and two formidable performers, this fringe highlight sees a cute newcomer end Earth’s 750m-year stint of singledom …
Hot Mess review – blazing musical about Earth and humanity’s toxic love affair

Solitude Without Loneliness review – bad dates, frenzied flyering and the spirit of the fringe

www.silverguide.site – Malcolm Sutherland’s meta production about isolation and the search for intimacy knowingly ties its themes to the experience of the fringe itself…
Solitude Without Loneliness review – bad dates, frenzied flyering and the spirit of the fringe

Someone Like Me review – moving through the unspeakable toll of war in Ukraine

www.silverguide.site – Nina Khyzhna performs a collage of poetic dance-theatre that embodies the everyday trauma of life in Kharkiv…
Someone Like Me review – moving through the unspeakable toll of war in Ukraine

Midnight at the Palace review – glittering tribute to San Francisco’s flamboyant Cockettes

www.silverguide.site – A joyful ensemble channels the spirit of 70s counterculture with dazzling costumes and cheeky choreography in a flawed show…
Midnight at the Palace review – glittering tribute to San Francisco’s flamboyant Cockettes

Microphones and Betty Boothroyd-style projection are both useful tools for actors | Letters

www.silverguide.site – Letters: Richard Lee says technology can transform audience engagement, especially for those with hearing loss. Chris Walters recalls the advice of the late Speaker…
Microphones and Betty Boothroyd-style projection are both useful tools for actors | Letters
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