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Don Carlos
By Simon Mundy, published 09 August 2009A classic mélange of dysfunctional family drama and political debate, this Friedrich Schiller work presents a naive prince who alone can mitiga...
Don Quixote – Theatre of the Blind
By Rose Wilkinson, published 12 August 2009There is something unsettling about being led into an auditorium blindfolded – about entrusting yourself, minus a faculty, into the hands of a g...
Double Art History
By Lyle Brennan, published 11 August 2009Think of the best teacher you’ve ever had. Most likely they were witty, passionate and eccentric, able to render the stuffiest of subjects rivet...Dragonfly
By Rachael Cloughton, published 04 August 2009Standing in the shadow of Edinburgh College of Art, Dragonfly is the chandeliered second home to the stray art students and glamorous locals that pack...
Dry humour
By Lyle Brennan, published 04 August 2009“I’m a man of several names,” says Arthur Smith, a man whose taste for pseudonyms seems fitting for such a multifaceted performer. B...
Durang/Durang
By Richard Hanrahan, published 21 August 2009Consisting of three one act plays by Christopher Durang, this show might be best considered a sketch show instead of theatre in any sense – that...E for Apple/Something Blue
By Lyle Brennan, published 11 August 2009Cancer is no picnic. In fact, it is very, very hard. It hurts and it makes you die, and dying is lonely – and hard.
This is about as much as yo...Earl of Marchmont
By Evangelos Chrysagis, published 04 August 2009A recently refurbished pub in the heart of the beautiful residential area of Marchmont—home to the major part of Edinburgh's student population&...
East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House
By Fern Brady, published 08 August 2009Brought to the UK by the multi award-winning Richard Jordan Productions, East 10th Street is the autobiographical piece from the former poster-boy of ...
East meets west
By Evan Beswick, published 05 August 2009There is, it seems, something uniquely surreal about playing international phone tag with German film directors. Having called to find the artist away...Ecco Vino
By David Stevenson, published 04 August 2009A minute from the Royal Mile, Ecco Vino is a modern take on an Italian Trattoria. Serving from noon till late it offers the perfect solution to in-bet...
Ed: The Musical
By Jennifer Blyth, published 21 August 2009A stockbroker in need of a heart transplant and a rock star who needs a liver transplant meet in hospital. “Sounds like the start of a fabulous ...
Edward Aczel
By Tom Hackett, published 11 August 2009There are several hundred comedians strutting their stuff at the Fringe this year, and most of them will be following more-or-less the same rulebook. ...
Edwyn Collins
By Chris McCall, published 05 August 2009If there were any sort of civic pride amongst Scotland’s music community, a statue of Edywn Collins would stand proud in every town.
His first ...
Eleanor Tiernan- Trouble
By Nick Eardley, published 11 August 2009Eleanor Tiernan tells her audience early in her set that the term 'comedian' should only be attached to people who make you laugh. If we accept her ad...Elis James: The Most Cautious Little Boy in Wales
By David Stevenson, published 05 August 2009Elis James is such a cautious little boy that this year will be the first solo offering from this cheeky and irreverent bilingual Welsh comic. Appear...Elliots Restaurant
By David Stevenson, published 04 August 2009Elliot's, the new restaurant in the re-born Waterloo Hotel, occupies prime position at the east end of Princes Street. The slick décor and larg...Emma
By Jess Winch, published 18 August 2009Amid the cacophony of boundary pushing, risqué, and downright bizarre productions available at the Fringe, audiences can breathe a sigh of reli...
Ernest and the Pale Moon
By Susan Robinson, published 16 August 2009Ernest and the Pale Moon is not a lavish production which only makes it a more astonishing achievement. The twisting tale of murder, insanity, mistake...
F**ked
By Hannah Thomas, published 14 August 2009Things aren’t going well for F. It’s New Year’s Day, she’s penniless and “coated in the greasy film of regret” fol...
