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The Edinburgh Fringe 2006 Show - #17
Nica Burns, Award Director
If.comeddies Awards
Mitch Benn, The World Stands Up
George Square Theatre

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Something I’ve been looking forward to now. One of the goals of The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast is to bring you as many experiences of the Fringe as possible. So yesterday I started at the top of The Royal Mile [...]

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Is this the final stretch? Of course it is. But that just means there are two and a half weeks of intruige and gossip to help find the best acts and shows out there. And, in its own little [...]

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2006 - #14
Jason Byrne - Sheep for Feet and Rams for Hands
Assembly at Assembly Hall
Jesus: The Guantanamo Years
Underbelly
Links to: If.comeddies, Ticket Sales for this week, Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail.

The sassiness of the show title belies the endearing fragility of this highly strung, warm, likeable New Yorker. Subtle and bawdy by turns, Canderas mulls over the traumas of childhood in a dysfunctional Irish Catholic family; her “quest to be a regular lady”; and finally coping with life as an older widow whose sexuality [...]

You are welcomed to Crunch by a sweet guitarist enquiring to your health and if the audience had fruit for breakfast? Enter the apple.
Then there’s the Adam and Eve apple, the Newton apple, an apple Jack called John, Wilhelm Tell and Snow white. There are songs, some funnier than others, and funny lines: “can’t tell [...]

Sizzling, smouldering, dashing: these Argentinian dancers make the sparks fly! Tango doesn’t entirely describe the balletic grace with which they flew through their moves. The long-legged sinuous grace of the female dancers contrasted with the macho gangster chic of the men: with their black hair fairly dripping with brilliantine, they looked like they [...]

Canadians really are different, aren’t they? No-one envies the task of a little-known comedian trying to warm up a small audience early on in the Festival, but Tony Law did a fine job, drawing us out of the drab theatre and into a surreal world of sausage dogs, worm holes and hula hoops.
Two ‘country [...]

This project is about what happens when a play has two different directors for two casts in two different venues. Cut wasn’t much shorter and actually referred to the writer having cut the umbilical cord to the play she wrote by giving it to another director. She directed the Uncut version herself.
The play tells [...]