ED2019 Index

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Edinburgh Festival 2019 saw ThreeWeeks return for its twenty-fourth year covering all of the Scottish capital’s summer festivals, via our magazine, daily updates and website.

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INTERVIEWS 2019>>

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THREES TO SEE 2019>>

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REVIEWS 2019>>

#Pianodrome Live Guest: Hebrides Ensemble (Hebrides Ensemble) (I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology Of The Odyssey (Lyrical Therapy University and Aztec Economy) 00 (Argonaut) 2Elfth Night (Keane & Doyle) 99 (First World) Problems Feat Andy Quirk And Anna J (Free Festival) A Table Tennis Play (Walrus) A Wake In Progress (Fine Mess Theatre and Leila Sykes) A**Hole New World (Brian Gallagher) Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) (Fight in the Dog) Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag (Hatch Talent) Adam Rowe: Pinnacle (CKP and Intertalent) Ahir Shah: Dots (Ahir Shah) AJ Holmes: Yeah, But Not Right Now (Stamptown) Alex Black's Record Collection (Alex Black / PBH's Free Fringe) Alex Hylton: Get Rich Or Die Crying (Alex Hylton) Alex Williamson: Sin On My Face (Alex Williamson) Algorithms (Sadie Clark & Laura Elmes Productions) Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster (Berk's Nest / Avalon) All of Me (China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre) America Is Hard To See (Life Jacket Theatre Company) Amy Howerska: Serious Face (Amy Howerska) Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) - 1 (Michael Mofidian and Keval Shah) Andy Field's Funeral (Andy Field) Anything With A Pulse (Wonky Donkey) Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu (Archie Henderson) Arrivals (Twelve Twelve Theatre and New Celts Productions) Art Heist (Poltergeist / Untapped by Underbelly and New Diorama Theatre) Ayman Jarjour, Syrian Guitarist (Ayman Jarjour) Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd (Francesca Moody Productions) Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical (Baby Wants Candy) Backbone (Underbelly and Gravity & Other Myths) Basil Brush: Unleashed (Broken Robot Productions / So Comedy / Basil Brush Limited) Beach Body Ready (The Roaring Girls, Absolutely Cultured, Pleasance, York Theatre Royal, Hull Truck) Beep Boop (Crowded Outlet / Something For The Weekend) Beetlemania: Kafka For Kids (The Kafkateers) Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist (Ben Verth) Between Us (Rachel E Thorn and Alex Keen) Bible John (Bible John and The Pleasance) Birth (Theatre Re in association with Glynis Henderson Productions) Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy (Wound Up Theatre) Black Is the Color Of My Voice (Apphia Campbell presented by James Seabright and Play The Spotlight) Blodeuwedd Untold (Jo Blake / Pleasance / Royal & Derngate Northampton) Blood And Gold (Mara Menzies) Blueswater Presents: Blues! (The Blueswater) Boar (Lewis Doherty, The North Wall and Nottingham Playhouse) Bobby And Amy (Emma Blackman Productions and Emily Jenkins) Brass Tracks (Brass Tracks) Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist (Brett Johnson) Brian Kennedy Recovery (Brian Kennedy) Broken Funnies (Martin Bearne) Buffering (Jenny Laville and Pauline Eyre) Buzzing (Debbie Bird) Byrony Kimmings: I'm A Pheonix, Bitch (Avalon Promotions) Cabaret Of Curiosities (Tatwood Puppets) Can You See Where I'm Coming From? (Melanie Branton / PBH's Free Fringe) Captain Jake And The Search For The Red Queen (Stories Alive) Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders (Cardboard Citizens) Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves? (Carl Donnelly) Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts – Free (St Mary's Cathedral) Catherine Bohart: Lemon (Chambers Touring) Cello On Fire (Peter Hudler) Chain Of Trivia (Russell Clarke) Children Of The Quorn (Megan from HR) Chords To Dream Of Love With (The Folk Orchestra Of Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School Of Zhejiang) Chris McGlade: Forgiveness (McGlade) Chris Parker: Camp Binch (Berk's Nest) Chris Washington: Raconteur (Phil McIntyre Entertainments Ltd Presents) Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Dreamboat (Off The Kerb Productions) Claude Bourbon: Medieval And Spanish Blues (Claude Bourbon) Collapsible (Ellie Keel Productions and High Tide) Connie Wookey: Denied (Constance Wookey) Conversations With Van Gogh (Echoes Theatre) Cream Tea And Incest (Peracals Productions) Crybabies: Danger Brigade (Crybabies in association with PBJ Management) Crystal Rasmussen Presents The Bible 2 (Plus A Cure For Shame, Violence, Betrayal And Athlete's Foot) Live! (United Agents) Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary (Live Nation Presents) Daniel Audritt: Better Man (Daniel Audritt) Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute (CKP / Intertalent) Death By Shakespeare (HurlyBurly) Deer Woman (Article 11 / CanadaHub) Definitely Louise (Bethany Heath) Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 (Century) Devon Knows How They Make It So Musical! (Free) (Take Note Community Choir) Dido And Aeneas (Coro 19) Dieterich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri (The Limbs Of Our Jesus) (Directed By Les Shankland - Director Of Music, St Vincent's Chapel) DNA (Casus Circus and Cluster Arts) Dominic Berry: I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less (Dominic Berry) Don't Be Terrible (Standard Man Productions) Doodle Pop (BRUSH Theatre LLC - Korean Season presented by AtoBiz Ltd) Double Denim: Adventure Show (Hey Boss) dressed. (ThisEgg in collaboration with Made My Wardrobe) Drone (Harry Josephine Giles, Rob Jones, Neil Simpson and Jamie Wardrop) E8 (The North Wall in association with The Pleasance) Early Mornings - The Musical (Joel Goodman) Ed Night: Jokes Of Love And Hate (Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with IAM) Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly (Eleanor Tiernan / PBH's Free Fringe) Elements Of Freestyle (ISH Dance Collective) Elliot Steel: Merked (Off The Kerb / PBH's Free Fringe) Elton John: Rocket Man Live! (Liquid Lunch Productions) Endless Second (Cut The Cord) Erth's Dinosaur Zoo (Underbelly and Erth) Fat Blast And Crackers: 101 Sketches In 50 Minutes! (The Scribbling Ape) Fauré Requiem By Candlelight (St Andrew Camerata) Fingers And Thumbs with Andy Gunn (Andy Gunn) Fires Our Shoes Have Made (Pound Of Flesh) First Piano On The Moon (Will Pickvance) First Time (Nathaniel Hall presented by Dibby Theatre with Waterside Arts) Fix Us (Bareface) Frank Foucault: Desk (Frank Foucault and Shmuck Theatre) Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster (Battersea Arts Centre and BAC Beatbox Academy) Freddie: One Night With Freddie (Outbreak Productions) Free Fringe Music (National Museum Of Scotland) Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf (Good Wolf People) Funny In Real Life (Rob Rouse and Helen Rutter) Garrett Millerick: Smile (Rabbit Rabbit) Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play (Artists Collective Theatre - Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Gethin Alderman Is: Sublime (Gethin Alderman) Glenn Moore: Love Don't Live Here Glenny Moore (Avalon Management) Global Grooves, Ancient Voices (Autorickshaw) Goodbear: Dougal (DugOut Theatre and Noel Gay Management) Got A Text: A Musical Parody (Round Three Productions) Grace Campbell: Why I'm Never Going Into Politics (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Grimm Tales (Grey Dog Theatre Company) Gun (Phil And Will) Guy Montgomery: I Was Part Of The Problem Before We Were Talking About It (Berk's Nest) Hatch (Rose Eye Productions) Have I Told You I'm Writing A Play About My Vagina? (Chucked Up Theatre) Heroin(e) For Breakfast (King Brilliant Theatre / Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance) HoneyBee (Eleanor Dillon-Reams) HOTTER (Ellie Keel Productions and HOTTER Project) House Of Hundred (Yesim Ozsoy Galata Perform Tiyatrosu - Turkey) How Not To Drown (Thick Skin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre) How To Save A Life (Glass Half Full Theatre) Huge Davies: The Carpark (CKP and InterTalent Group present) I'm OKayfabe (Fake Heat) I, Piano (Adrian Hornsby) Ian Smith: Half-Life (Bound & Gagged Comedy) If It Didn't Matter (Cup And Dagger) Intolerable Side Effects (Claire Parry) Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness (Isa Bonachera) IvankaPlay (Snowy Owl) Ivo Graham: The Game Of Life (Off The Kerb Productions) Izzy Mant: Polite Club (Get Comedy Ltd) Jack Barry: Alien (Berk's Nest / PBH's Free Fringe) Jacob Hawley: Faliraki (Jacob Hawley) Jamali Maddix: Work In Progress (IAM Presents) Jen Brister (Jen Brister) Jennifer Tyler: Ready Or Not (Rachel Kraftman) Jessica Fostekew: Hench (Jessica Fostekew) Jesus Christ Superstar (Captivate Theatre) Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert (Joe Bor) Just These Please: Suitable (Just These Please) Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice (Off The Kerb Productions) Knock Knock (Hot Coals Theatre) Kurl Up And Dye (NUTS Theatre) Ladies Who Lunch (Fourth Wall Theatre Company) Ladybones (Sorcha McCaffrey) Landscape (1989) (Emergency Chorus) Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon (Rabbit Rabbit) Last Life: A Shakespeare Play (The Box Collective and Piece of Yourself) Last Of The Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble / Complicité / Royal & Derngate Northampton) Leave A Message (Jessica Rose McVay Productions and Bad Thursday) Liza Treyger: In The Weeds (Live Nation and Avalon present) Lost Musical Works Of Willy Shakes (The Lost Works) Love (Watching Madness) (SpeakUp Theatre) Lovely Girls (The Hiccup Project) Lucy McCormick: Post Popular (Soho Theatre, Johnson & Mackay and United Agents) Lucy Pearman: Baggage (United Agents) Madame Ovary (WildChild Productions) Manual Cinema's Frankenstein (Underbelly and Manual Cinema) Marc Jennings: Getting Going (Marc Jennings) Mark And Haydn: Llaugh (StraightUp Productions) Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male (Off The Kerb Productions) Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome (Ingenious Fools / Furthest From The Sea) Matt Price: Broken Hooters And Geezers With Shooters (Bound & Gagged Comedy) Matt Winning: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Matt Winning) Meatball Séance (John Michael / PBH's Free Fringe) Men With Coconuts (Men With Coconuts) Micky Bartlett: Love It! (MZA and Nunchuck Productions) Micky P Kerr: Kerr In The Community (Brett Vincent for GetComedy) Mighty (Jack Britton in association with the Pleasance and Leicester Curve) Milo Edwards: Pindos (Milo Edwards) Monsoon Season (Thieriot Productions and All For One) Mustard (Eva O'Connor) My Best Dead Friend (Anya Tate-Manning and Isobel MacKinnon with Zanetti Productions) My Love Lies Frozen In The Ice (Dead Rabbits Theatre) My Mum's A Twat (Showroom) Neither Here Nor There (Jo Fong / Sonia Hughes) Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy (Nick Elleray / Free Festival) Normaler Than Everyone (Normaler Productions in association with Fringe Management, LLC) Notes From Shetland To Shanghai (Sophie Rocks) Obsolete (Tepid Productions) Olaf Falafel: Knitting With Maracas (Olaf Falafel) Old Jewish Jokes (Ivor Dembina) Olga Koch: If/Then (Berk's Nest in association with Hannah Layton Management) One Duck Down (FacePlant Theatre) Only Bones 1.0 - Thom Monckton (Kallo Collective In Association With Aurora Nova) Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman (AEG presents) Piano_Play (Charlie Russell Productions) Piramania! The Swashbuckling Pirate Musical (Sloshed Theatre) Pizza Shop Heroes (Phosphoros Theatre) Play Before Birth (Coast To Coast Theatre Company) Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name (Blue Book AM) Post-Mortem (Ellandar Productions and Jessica Rose McVay Productions) Rachel Fairburn: The People's Princess (Live Nation) Radu Isac: Good Excuses For Sociopaths (Radu Isac) Raven (Chamäleon Productions in association with Aurora Nova) Red Herring (Gardyloo) Renaissance Music From Scotland And England (Byrd International Singers) Rhod Gilbert: The Book Of John (Blue Jeans Management) Rhys Nicholson - Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations (Underbelly in association with Casarotto Ramsey Management) Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Andrew Roach Talent) Ricky Riddlegang And The Riddlegang (Peracals Productions) Rob Auton: The Time Show (Show And Tell in association with Avalon Management) Rodgers With A D - The Tommy Rodgers Centenary Celebration (Louise Rodgers) Róisín And Chiara: Get Nupty (Róisín And Chiara) Rory O Hanlon - Confidence (Rory O Hanlon / PBH's Free Fringe) Rosie Jones: Backward (Off The Kerb Productions) Ross Smith: Crying/Shame (Ross Smith) SAGA (Stones Theatre Company) Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory (PBH's Free Fringe) Scream Phone (Swipe Right Theatre) Sexy Lamp (Katie Arnstein and Victoria Gagliano) Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats (Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell) Shit (MILKE and Dee & Cornelius) Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes A Panic Room When You Overthink Enough (Simon Caine / Sweet Productions) Sing Me A Song: The Robert Louis Stevenson Show (Neil Adam And Judy Turner) Sketch Thieves (Purple Martian / Free Festival) Slime (The Herd and Absolutely Cultured) Solitary (Dutch Kills Theater Company) Southern Nights: The Story Of Southern Soul (Night Owl Shows) Sparkle (Annie Cusick Wood, Honolulu Theatre Production supported by Catherine Wheels) Splash Test Dummies (Underbelly and Dummies Corp) Square Go (Francesca Moody Productions) Standard:Elite (Hidden Track) Steve N Allen: Better Than (Steve N Allen / The Stand Comedy Club) STYX (Second Body) Suffering From Scottishness (Kevin P Gilday) Sukh Ojla: For Sukh's Sake (Noel Gay Presents...) Sunil Patel: White Knight (Sunil Patel) Sunshine (Stickyback Theatre) Superstar (Nicola Wren and Something For The Weekend) Swim (Liz Richardson in association with the Pleasance and HOME) Tappuccino (Brunch Bunch) Tarot (Berk's Nest, Gein's Family Giftshop and Goose) Teach (Bread And Butter Productions) The Art Of Skipping (Purple Door Productions Limited) The Canary And The Crow (Middle Child) The Carpenters Songbook (Night Owl Shows) The Cheap Part Of Town (Louis Rive) The De Nova Super (A Brilliant Everything) The Empathy Experiment (Rose Condo / PBH's Free Fringe) The Establishment: Bureau De Strange (Mad Etiquette) The Golden Path (Vanessa Hammick) The Greatest Magic Show (Showmen Productions) The Legend Of Shadows (Point View Art Association and Shadow Legends Drama Group - Macao/Taiwan) The Listies: Ickypedia (The Listies) The Long Pigs (WE3 and Cluster Arts) The Polis (A Police Tribute) (The Polis) The Red (Corduroy Productions and Something For The Weekend) The Sensemaker (Woman's Move) The Struggling Life Of An Artist (Hitting Heads Productions) Thrones! The Musical Parody (Thrones! The Musical Parody) Ticker (Fight In The Dog in association with United Agents) Trying It On (Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate) Umbrella Man (Teuchter Company - Colin Bramwell) Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area (Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society) Valentina's Galaxy (Frozen Charlotte Productions) White Girls (Laughing Mirror) Who Is Daniel King (Ed Eales-White) Whose Mind Is It Anyway? (Whose Mind Is It Anyway?) Wild Swimming (FullRogue / Pleasance / Bristol Old Vic Ferment) Will Duggan: Class Two (Will Duggan) Will Mars: Phoenix (Purple Martian / Free Festival) Wireless Operator (Silksheen Productions) Witch Hunt (A&E Comedy) With Child (Claire Pointing) Wrath Of Achilles (Bedivere Arts Company) You And I: A New Musical (Colla Voce Theatre) YUCK Circus (Underbelly/YUCK Circus) Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo (Mick Perrin Worldwide)

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