The Fringe through feminist-tinted glasses
Show: White Girls Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot Star rating: ***** Reviewer: Amy King Francesca Bloor and Valerie Smith are, in a word, brilliant. Their show, White Girls, follows Eve and Leah as they travel to Calais on their gap year to volunteer in The Jungle, a refugee camp, in 2016. They don't speak French, but... Continue Reading →
Show: You Have a Match Venue: theSpace @ Surgeon's Hall Star rating: **** Reviewer: Viki Matejova You Have a Match portrays what the world of online dating is like for two Londoners, Riley and Teagan, as they go on an adventure and try to find a soulmate, or try to forget unrequited love. It is... Continue Reading →
Show: The Cat's the Thing Venue: theSpace @ Surgeon's Hall Star rating: **** Reviewer: Abbie McGrath Exploring the complicated and often misunderstood life of living with OCD, Marissa’s show balances demonstrating the difficulties in everyday tasks with keeping the audience laughing. Marissa’s character Tanya narrates to the audience through talking with her companion Dale, a... Continue Reading →
Show: Sex Education Venue: Summerhall Star rating: **** Reviewer: Abbie McGrath I’m not entirely sure what I had expected from Sex Education, but I could not have prepared for what was in store. Welcomed to the show with a montage of pornography, pieced together with interviews with Harry Clayton-Wright’s wholesome mother, any potential awkwardness in... Continue Reading →
Show: Bad Aunts Venue: Gilded Balloon @ Old Tolbooth Market Star rating: *** Reviewer: Eve Tunstall Bad Aunts is a chat show with a big difference - set in the living room of the house that they all share, this alternative comedy show runs through the lives of three women navigating divorce, menopause, misogyny and ‘being... Continue Reading →
Show: Izzy Mant: Polite Club Venue: Underbelly Bristo Square Star rating: *** Reviewer: Rachel-Anne Clarke Izzy Mant is a TV producer and ex-theatre director, so it’s no surprise that her show is well produced and well packaged. It’s an interesting and relatively relatable start to the show as Mant regales us with a meeting she had... Continue Reading →
Show: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner's Old Face Venue: Pleasance Courtyard Star rating: **** Reviewer: Joanne Kilday In 2019, if you want to be a 'successful independent woman person' you better have something to say and you better be wearing a Serious Black Jumper™. 'Britain's funniest woman comic' (Daily Mail) has put the sequins in... Continue Reading →
Show: There She Is Venue: PQA Venues @ Riddle's Court Star rating: *** Reviewer: Bethan Devonald There She Is is follows a woman's journey through London when a whale is beached on the London Underground. This new piece of writing - inspired by interviews with people living in London from all over the world with... Continue Reading →
Show: Fatty Fat Fat Venue: Pleasance Courtyard Star rating: **** Reviewer: Esme Leitch Katie Greenall’s one-woman show Fatty Fat Fat is the reality check we all need in a world of skinny teas and relentless judgement and should be made part of the school curriculum as soon as possible. As the audience shuffled in to... Continue Reading →
