The Edinburgh Fringe 2005 Show #012 (MP3 – 7.3MB – 24 min 47 sec)
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Two of the smaller shows to the Fringe today, but both of them are cracking shows and well worth popping along to see.
Cast Ensemble - The Beginners Guide To The Fringe
Late at night, on the top of north bridge, is [...]

Says it all really… the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast is the 28th most popular podcast in Apple’s flagship iTunes Top 100 UK Podcasts list. So thank you to all of you who are listening to the podcast, the performers who are getting involved, and everyone giving me feedback. There’s still a week of the Fringe to [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe 2005 Show #011 (MP3 – 8.7MB – 29 min 31 sec)
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Caroline Reid - Pam Ann
It must be tough when your comedy act is based on an airline stewardess, and in the weeks leading up to the Fringe there’s a rather large number of, well, problems with aircraft, catering and suchlike. [...]

Another Sci-Fi offering from Festival Theatre USA to complement their Star Wars in Thirty Minutes Opus, Science Fiction Blast Off Theatre is a collection of short vignettes in the style of the late 50s pulp SF anthology TV shows. Think sketch comedy with an interesting twist to make you think at the end once you [...]

More from londonder in Edinburgh Bruce Dessau, with his look both at Mark Watson’s endurance gig of 2005 minutes, and the judging of “So You Think You’re Funny’s” semi-final that he took part in. Read his blog post here.

Hush is a fascinating and frightening study of domestic violence and mental illness. Griff (Alex Palmer) convinces himself that his wife Lydia (Juliet Cowan) is having an affair and in order to confirm her betrayal imagines he is talking to their unborn child Jack.
Such a premise obviously requires an enormous suspension of disbelief from [...]

Being able to hold the stage and the audience’s attention for an hour is the main challenge of this production. Regrettably there is an awkwardness to this performance which goes beyond any traits of the title character, Valentine Day, whose monologue this is. Fortunately there are moments in which the stage does come [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe 2005 Show #010 (MP3 – 7.9MB – 26 min 46 sec)
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Yes, today’s show is live from the set of Star Wars… a day that I’ve been dreaming of through many an interview. The SF fans are going to enjoy today’s Fringe Podcast, featuring as it foes the two pillars of [...]

Promising to be both historical and hysterical, this production certainly provides an interesting montage of the conspiracies, truths and untruths surrounding the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Retold by Marguerite Oswald, LHO’s mother, as part of her son’s posthumous court case this show explores the mystery surrounding one of America’s most infamous citizens[...]

Setting up camp – no pun intended – in Edinburgh’s Meadows for the duration of the Fringe are the Ladyboys of Bangkok: an all singing, all dancing and surprisingly all male cabaret. Consisting of karaoke favourites and dancing, by both performers and audience, this is a show aimed at spectacle – as its title [...]