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A year makes a significant difference at the Edinburgh Fringe. Twelve months after winning Best Newcomer for Swings and Roundabouts, Ayoade Bamgboye returns to the Pleasance Courtyard as a writer-performer for Saturday Night Live UK and the benchmark talent referenced in Ayo Adenekan’s fab sophomore show. It turns out that Adenekan’s comedic nemesis is every […] The post EdFringe Review: Ayoade…
While history is traditionally written by the victors, in the case of Remember, Remember, it is being rewritten by London-based company WIT? Theatre with a deep love for high camp. Playing at the Pleasance Dome, this new comedy musical takes the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and turns it into a slick, irreverent, and fast-paced romp. Think […] The post EdFringe Review: Remember, Remember! appeared first on…
Kat Woods’ Non Human Animal is a fascinating piece of new writing that blends stark social realism with gallows humour. Billed as a dark Irish comedy, it is an acutely topical, semi-autobiographical exploration of grief, the justice system, and the state’s failure to heal its most marginalised citizens—drawing directly from the real-life murder of Woods’ […] The post EdFringe Review: NON HUMAN…
Degrees of Error’s Murder, She Didn’t Write is definitely a modern Fringe fixture, reliably selling out and known for its loyal, returning audiences. They must, I thought before my first experience, know what they are doing and do it pretty well. That turned out to be entirely…correct. The cast rotates, so apologies if I’ve misidentified […] The post EdFringe Review: Murder, She Didn’t Write…
It’s nothing new to say that tribute acts usually sit at the less respected end of the showbiz spectrum, often viewed as glorified karaoke. It’s a misguided view. Done well, tribute concerts inject the adrenaline-spiking joy of live performance into music you may never hear played by its originators. In Liberace & Liza: A Tribute, […] The post EdFringe Review: Liberace and Liza – A Tribute…
Pierre Novellie is a relatively new name to me, but I recently seem to have heard his name and caught bits of his comedy quite often, so a chance to review his show seemed like a no-brainer. I’ve heard him talk about that odd mix of having two differently oriented names—French and Italian, though the […] The post EdFringe Review: Pierre Novellie: Do the One About… appeared first on The…
Piano legend and festival favourite Alfred Brendel died in June of last year, too late for a tribute to be included in the 2025 festival programme. However, this year’s festival more than made up for that omission with three recitals by leading pianists in his memory. So writes Lindsay McMurdo for the QR.co.uk… The first […] The post EIF Review: Steven Osborne appeared first on The Quinntessential…
The concept of declaring one’s “villain era”—casting off societal expectations, ditching people-pleasing, and refusing to apologise for who you are—is a promising vein for modern comedy. In Juliette Burton: Villain Era, the comedian sets out to align her own life as a neurodivergent, polyamorous cosplayer with the misunderstood antiheroines and villainesses of pop-culture lore. On […] The post…
At the Edinburgh International Festival, Ihsane emerges like a mirage – glittering, fragrant, full of promise, yet ultimately dissolving just as one tries to understand it. It offers a world of exquisite detail, a sensory atlas of Morocco rendered with fascination, but its dramaturgical compass spins, leaving the audience wandering through beauty without a clear […] The post EIF Review: Ihsane…
“Do you think a story can kill us?” Paul Ready asks one of the attendees at the memorial he’s staging in the midst of the Edinburgh Fringe. He asks because maybe a story killed his best friend: the one he told himself about who he was, and what the world was about. Little Animals—the debut […] The post EdFringe Review: Little Animals appeared first on The Quinntessential Review .
Forget trawling through thousands of Fringe listings. We asked performers the weirdest, cheekiest questions we could think of – and more than 500 answered. Now, the best of those bite-sized “Fringe Quickies” have emerged victorious — claiming glory, bragging rights, and absolutely no actual prize. #FringeQuickies is The Quinntessential Review’s bite-sized Edinburgh Fringe Q&A series […] The post…
As ever, there were lots of shows to choose from today, but I had other Festival fish to fry, so I only went to one event. I chose to listen to Sara Sheridan being interviewed by Ashley Douglas (herself an author who appeared earlier in the Festival in her own right) about her latest novel, […] The post Edinburgh Book Festival Day 4: Sara Sheridan & ‘The Jewel Keepers’ appeared first on The…
‘Cadel: Lungs on Legs’ (Gilded Balloon at The Museum) is back at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a second year, after well-deserved rave reviews and theatre awards last year. It was by far my favourite show at the Fringe in 2025, and I sang its praises to anyone who would listen – and those who […] The post EdFringe Review: CADEL: Lungs on Legs appeared first on The Quinntessential Review .
There’s a delightful normality to Kevin Quantum; he has the likeable energy of a high school kid with a passionate hobby made good. I should know; I was one of them. In Kevin’s case, his first dream was to be a scientist, but a fateful run-in with a Channel 4 reality show changed his life […] The post EdFringe Review: Kevin Quantum: Invisible Force appeared first on The Quinntessential Review .
