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 [...]

The story is well known thanks to the book, the movie, the poster and an unscripted I’m walking here from Dustin Hoffman. Add to that the knowledge of the Director John Clancy and the writer Tim Fountain, my expectations were stacked up.
I wasn’t even in a particularly good mood and the initial country tunes didn’t [...]

Tired variations of: xenophobia, mysogyny, onanism and homophobia.
Gaye Belle

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It’s all go, as the end of week twoapproaches. But that doesn’t mean I ca’t find some of the best acts and interviews to go through from Edinburgh…
The Edinburgh Fringe 2006 Show - #13
Lick and Chew - The [...]

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Time for another show - and I’m in the middle of unpacking and sorting out the broadband after moving house, so I’ll leave you in the capable hands of three of the poofs from Jonathan Ross, and the velvet [...]

Featuring Janey Godley, Sue Perkins and Chris Cox.