After their success at last year’s Fringe, Aisle 16 are back with their own brand of ‘edutainment’ aiming to convert the masses into poets for the 21st-century. Assuming the persona of a boyband, Aisle 16 take to the stage dressed in white suits to give their Powerpoint presentation on Key Stage 3 poetry[...]

The stranger of the title is Mac 9Ben Sillitoe), a forgotten friend, who arrives unexpectedly on Gill and his wife’s doorstep. Throughout the course of the play Mac tries to manipulate the tensions in this struggling family to his own end, only to realise that he has unleashed his ruthless will to survive in [...]

Slickly produced and powerfully performed this is a crash course on the German political playwright Bertolt Brecht. Excerpts from some of his better known plays (The Threepenny Opera) are mixed with scenes from lesser performed works and the sound of a rare interview with Brecht himself. The performers of Brentwood Theater Company are [...]

While it might have a in-built recognition factor due to the source material, The Star Wars Trilogy in Thirty minutes is an accomplished piece of light entertainment theatre this side of Kessel. The cast are having fun, the audience are in on the joke and enjoying every second, from the 20th Century Fox fanfare through [...]

Armed with a boy’s toy of a guitar Rob Deering sings and smiles his way through a history of modern music. A capable musician, still lamenting his own failed rock career, Deering’s guitar is a vehicle and not a gimmick for his comedy.
His mockery of musicians great and small is brilliantly masked by a [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe 2005 Show #009 (MP3 – 7.2MB – 25 min 03 sec)
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Quick introduction this morning, because the shows for reviews and interviews are coming in thick and fast. So who do we have today?
Ben Moor - Coelacanth
A romantic mysterious tree climbing adventure of a how, BenMoore starts with a world [...]

Starting off many, many moons ago at The Stand, then local hairdresser, now comedian, Craig Hill can easily fill the larger theatres at the Assembly Rooms. He’s a known name in the central belt of Scotland, making regular appearances on the television, but no chances were taken that his name alone would put bums on [...]

We don’t have a star rating system here at the Fringe Podcast, but if we did, then this would be the first 5/5 show that I’ve seen this year. Brian Mallon takes on the role of Richard Burton looking back through his life, and also revisiting scences in his life. Opening with the BBC Radio [...]

Not sure how much I agree with this one. Guides to the best shows at the Fringe abound over Edinburgh (both in the press and in the competition to see who can get their poster the highest up the lamp-posts in Bristo Square), so at first glance the official Fringe ‘Text Vote’ is a good [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe 2005 Show #008 (MP3 – 8.6MB – 28 min 58 sec)
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It’s the crazy gang show today - if you want the wild, wacky and downright stupid ideas at the Fringe, then you’ve come to the right place. Who have we got today?
Mark Watson - 2005 Years in 2005 Minutes
Last year [...]