Blogposts
An Open Letter to Missing String Theatre Company
It’s a little late now, perhaps, but here Daniel Piper evaluates something important about performers, critics, and the Fringe. Dear Missing String Theatre Company, As the festival draws to a close and posters start to come down (as do performers and reviewers alike), there’s something I really need to get off my chest before it’s [...]
Eponymous: The Perils of the Titular Star
The great thing about producing a show with a legendary band/singer/actor in the title is that you have a potential ready-made fan base. Half a Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths should, theoretically speaking at least, draw in Smiths and Morrissey obsessives. Somewhere Under the Rainbow: The Liza Minnelli Story should do likewise [...]
The Highs and Lows of the First-Time Fringe Company
You’ve done all of the prep: made a show you’re proud of, saved up enough money and taken time off work. Now it’s time to go to the Fringe. But what is Edinburgh really like for first timers? I met up with Simon, Nicky, Nathan and Emma from the Australian theatre group Applespiel to talk [...]
The Best Fringe of the Fringe
With only a week left of this year’s Fringe, the pressure is on. I know what you’re thinking – you didn’t get that 5 star review you wanted, people keep refusing your flyers, no one plastered that flipping brilliant review you wrote on their posters, you’ve been to thirty shows and were never once called [...]
From Flyer to Feature: A Reviewer’s Journey
Your relationship with a performance starts the first moment you hear its name, get told a jumbled synopsis or a flyer is placed in your hand. From that instant your opinions and expectations begin to be shaped and a potential show already starts to form in your mind. As critics and theatre goers it is [...]
Fear and loathing in Las Edinburgh: Confessions of a first-time critic.
I have quite literally almost no idea what I’m doing, yet I find myself speeding down the Fringe motorway with delusions of grandeur that come hand in hand with a sudden change to one’s circumstances. I’m having one long bad trip – a bad trip where I’m empowered with an authority and power I feel is [...]
An Untimely F**k Off
‘Goodnight, everybody. I hope that your next show is more fun than this.’ The sad thing is comedian John Scott isn’t joking. For the past thirty minutes he’s been checking his watch. It’s 11:30pm, and as he swiftly exits Stage Four at The Stand, he leaves behind perhaps the most disastrous show of his career. It [...]
Are we bored of the Bard?
‘Shakespeare is killing British theatre,’ wrote playwright Richard Bean in TimeOut in 2006. It’s an opinion that rears its head – with various levels of extremity – every couple of years, and the same solution is often suggested: put the Bard on hold and let other work shine through. To some, this suggestion seems a logical [...]
Have we become too trusting of verbatim theatre?
From the critically-acclaimed My Name Is Rachel Corrie to Monkey Bars, Chris Goode and Karl James’ new play currently playing to sell-out crowds at The Traverse, verbatim theatre has had an exciting and varied history. This gripping genre deserves appreciation on a number of levels: from its emotive impact to the work it has done [...]
A Day in the Life of a Flyerer
It’s the Edinburgh Fringe, you got into town five minutes ago and somehow you’re already clutching ten flyers in your hand. You don’t know how it happened, you kept saying no, but here you are. It’s unavoidable. Flyerers get a lot of bad press – people constantly complain about being flyered. But is this unjust? [...]
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