Category: Reviews
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Ashley Gavin is iconic. In the past weeks, her show My Therapist is Dying guaranteed her a sold-out Fringe run. As the title promises, it is a bittersweet performance, even though the jokes are fast-paced and flowing almost uninterrupted.
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Foot-tapping the night away like it’s the ’50s. The Blueswater is an energetic blues band hailing from Edinburgh, which does come as quite a surprise. The second they start the concert, one could be in Chicago or Mississippi, in a different era too. Prepare to dance, sweat and sing along to old-school rhythm and blues…
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3 stars – compelling performance Kacie is an aspiring actress who also sells windows on the local market as a side-hustle. Her first sales prove her that it isn’t an impossible task, but other events in her life bring her further away from this job.
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5 stars – prophetess of hope ALOK Vaid-Menon’s stage figure is modest and calm. In Hairy Situation, stories and jokes are drawn from various sources of inspiration and touch a series of themes, from the setting of the performance itself, to uncomfortable moments from their life, to eventually land on the topic of body hair.
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4 stars – clever, witty and wonderfully performed. To review Mo Fry Pasic’s fast-paced solo show does require quite a bit of afterthought. It’s rich from minute one; before Mo even gets on stage we see screenings of ironic old-school notices such as: “Throw your gums out!” or: “Everyone, look under your seats, there’s a…
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4 stars – impactful and fundamental China Doll is an East Asian looking actress. While dreaming of playing the roles of Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese American star, she is also employed in Susie’s laundromat.
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4 stars – miscellaneous drag documentary Half drag show, half documentary, this performance presents the work of Messy Friends. They are a group created by Ginava with an innovative idea of drag, where dance, lip-sync, burlesque and classical drag makeup are juxtaposed to puppet-like costumes.
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5 stars – towards human and beyond A character is there, sat on a chair, who resembles a man in a suit. He is looking back, aware of being looked at, and this awareness shapes his movement, as he piles and drops and bites and rolls and piles and drops.
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4 stars – powerful and honest musical comedy. Ah, the power of women…! Women falling on the ground, bouncing back up, falling more, bouncing back again and then some. Such is Riki Lindhome’s story, her infertility journey, as she calls it with apparent irony, standing somewhere between theatrical storytelling and comedy.
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3 stars – vulnerable, honest and ecletic. Jessie Cave, a well-versed, deadpan and brutally open comic, delivers another hour of just that: her usual dry, raw, personal, dark comedy. She’s famous for it by now, and not only for her comedy, podcasting, acting and bestselling novel, but also thanks to her public, on-off-on-again relationship with…
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