2011
British Council Showcase
Be warned: this is going to be massive. The Traverse, befittingly for a top-drawer new writing theatre, presents a revival of last year’s awards-sweeping sex-traffic exposé Roadkill, and also three new plays: Futureproof, by Lynda Radley; The Monster in the Hall, by David Grieg (performed by the Citizens Theatre), and I, Malvolio, Tim ‘The Author’ [...]
Remarkable Arts
There are some very, very exciting things going on at Remarkable Arts. Although its two venues (Hill Street Theatre and St. George’s West) are hardly the most centrally located, the buzz already surrounding its programme should drive the madding crowds north of the bridge (for once!). Along with The Stand (which we previewed yesterday), Remarkable [...]
The Stand
The Stand is the thinking man’s Edinburgh Venue. The one where the real comedy fans hang out, being cool and liking comedy and stuff. That might be because as one of the country’s premier year-round comedy venues, come Fringe time it usually has hands down the best alternative comedy line-up at the festival. But it might not. [...]
Zoo Venues
There is a warm, gooey place in every Biscuiteer’s heart for Zoo Venues. Its performance spaces are among the best in Edinburgh, its programming is winningly adventurous…and we basically ran Fringebiscuit from the Roxy’s basement last year. (Sorry. This year we’ll bring a dongle.) It is also one of the few central venues that caters [...]
C Venues
C Venues’ ‘open-door’ programming policy occasionally makes it one of the most exciting places to be at the Fringe: exciting because of the lack of quality-control; exciting because of the density of enthusiastic young companies; exciting because once in a blue moon, you will find something utterly exceptional at C. Most of the time, though, [...]
Assembly
It’s all going on at the Assembly this year, with a bold move to a brand spanking new set of performance spaces in George Square and a line-up that easily outdoes the other big venues in terms of variation and proven quality. One of our favourite performers Bryony Kimmings follows up last years impressive Sex Idiot with new [...]
Bedlam
The brilliant, brilliant Bedlam. Not only does it boast one of the cheapest watering holes in Edinburgh, serving hearty soups and pizzas during the day, but its programme consistently strikes a winning balance between crowd-pleasers and risk-takers, family shows and late-night filth-fests, and all at an exceedingly affordable price. Indeed, barring the Free Fringe, the [...]
Gilded Balloon
We’ve a real soft spot for the Gilded Balloon. The Library Bar. The gourmet fast food huts. The fact it isn’t the Udderbelly. It all feels so damn classy. Some good stuff on too, now you mention it. In the main program, comedy rockers Axis of Awesome are always a good laugh, we’ve heard nice things about Claudia [...]
What We Really Hope For
Goodness, is it really that time already? It seems like only last week that we stumbled out of trains, vans and buses, blearily hungover/still achingly drunk. And it was only yesterday that we stopped talking (to anyone who would listen) about the wonderful and terrible things we had seen. We’ve only just worked out how to watch [...]
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