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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 16, 2017 13:21:47 GMT
The Starship Osiris would be right up your street, Dawnstar . It’s a play within a play that goes so wrong that even the thespians of Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society might blush with shame. I'm sure you'd enjoy an hour in the company of Captain Harrison and the supporting cast who are united in their loathing of him! I've just looked it up but sadly it overlaps with Showstopper, as does SiX which also looks interesting. Evidently one evening in Edinburgh isn't enough! (But the hotel bills are too high for more.) |
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Post by firefingers on Aug 16, 2017 13:26:22 GMT
Saw Starship Osiris yesterday and was crying with laughter. Get down the front, it's fantastic. Possibly my pick of the fringe.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 17, 2017 21:52:40 GMT
Quick post
Ian deep Montfort is a great act live.
Leopld and Loeb has a great plot, not many musicals you can say that a bout. Music is good and production and acting fine. Not your typical music s iCal story. Worth a visit.
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Post by synchrony on Aug 17, 2017 22:29:58 GMT
My time at the Fringe is now nearly over. One show left tomorrow. I'm hearing good things about Revlon Girl but sadly sold out until after I left.
Excellent -
The Nature of Forgetting
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Really Sad)
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
At the Illusionist's Table
The Noise Next Door: 10
A Gym Thing
Paris de Nuit
Good -
Pip Utton Churchill
Colin Cloud Dare (would prefer in a smaller venue)
Into the Woods (would have said excellent were it not for some poor diction from a few minor characters)
Buried (agree it starts excellently but then it seems to be unsure whether to continue as a comedy or try to be serious)
The Starship Osiris (I got to play Trixie! Ha!)
The Road That Wasn't There
Tom Houghton Class Half Empty
£¥€$ (Lies)
Fate of the Date (silly but a good laugh)
Borders
Lula del Ray (but Ada/Ava, if you saw that last year, was better)
OK -
Pip Utton Hitler
Meow Meow's Little Mermaid (good but too surreal and not really my thing)
Education Education Education (I was clearly in the minority not loving it. Great cast and I loved Tobias, but felt some of the book was forced/clichéd)
Mine
Charlie Montague The Game's a foot, try the fish
Thrill Me Leopold and Loeb (the actors and production are great, it's just that I've seen the full length version and prefer that)
Things We Find in the Dark (good if you have small children, otherwise not much for adults)
Bad -
Evocation (literally had no idea what this was about)
Three Tales of Life and Death (good ideas but didn't make a coherent whole)
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The Time Machine (The actor and production were good. I just find HG Wells rather tedious unfortunately)
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Post by synchrony on Aug 17, 2017 22:33:42 GMT
PS with the exception of Priscilla, all these shows had good casts and were well produced. The comments are more of a reflection of the sort of thing I personally enjoy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 22:49:47 GMT
Would also like to add some more that I have enjoyed so far
Orwell that ends well- very interesting and funny comedy show about modern technology
The rise qnf fall of Marcus Monroe- also vey in and nice to see me comedians
Morgan and west - Return of the time travelibg magicians- good old fashioned magic and charming
Tom Allen Absolutely- love him on Telly and did not disappoint at all
The girl who jumped off the Hollywood sign- set in golden age Hollywood and with a great actress with singing classic songs
Showstoppers - finally got rebound to seeing them, hilarious!
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Post by n1david on Aug 19, 2017 15:59:37 GMT
My first Fringe in (cough) about 30 years and pleased to see it in fine form - decent audiences for even quite obscure shows (who knew that there were 39 other people keen to see a one-man show about the life of skater John Curry at 11am?). Saw a total of 19 shows and no complete duffers so I guess I was lucky - some not so good but something to take from each of them - something that was poorly-written but that raised interesting ideas, or something that had one exceptional performance in an otherwise mediocre show.
Three that I'd particularly pick out are:
Fag/Stag by The Last Great Hunt - two Aussie actors with intertwining unreliable monologues over a period of some weeks leading up to the wedding of a woman that they were both once in love with. More sophisticated than it first appears, it questions concepts of masculinity and friendship, particularly between gay and straight men.
Play Something by Stage Write - tells the story of two men over decades. Clever device of using "the song which connects to a particular moment". Shamelessly sentimental. This won an Eddie at the Drayton Arms Theatre in London to get an Edinburgh run and is likely to come back to London.
Thief by LR Stageworks - horrible venue down by Holyrood means this was the only show that I saw that struggled for an audience, which is a shame as there was an incredible, raw, aggressive performance in this one-man show inspired by Genet by way of Greenock. Genuinely shocking.
Already planning next year's visit...
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Post by synchrony on Aug 21, 2017 13:51:44 GMT
LOL - I also saw the John Curry show!
For anyone who likes 'Lord of the Flies', the last show I saw in my week was also one of the two shows I most enjoyed this year. It was called 'Nothing' and it was a great performance of a show that was thought-provoking and disturbing. I found it very dark. But, together with 'The Nature of Forgetting' it's one of the two shows that left the most impact on me this year.
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Post by stevej678 on Sept 6, 2017 7:59:29 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Sept 6, 2017 16:44:46 GMT
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