ED2015 THEATRE

Theatre at Edinburgh Festival 2015

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ED2015 THEATRE FEATURES

ThreeWeeks Editors' Awards presented for 201529 August 2015

Three To See on 29 Aug: Edmund The Learned Pig, The Remnants, Going Viral28 August 2015

Total Theatre Awards presented for 201528 August 2015

‘A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing’ wins Amnesty prize27 August 2015

Luke Wright: The stay-at-Fringe dandy27 August 2015

Three To See on 27 Aug: Confirmation, Sofie Hagen, Bromance26 August 2015

Three To See on 26 Aug: Monkey Poet, Emma Hall, 197225 August 2015

Emma Hall: With 621 opinions, you have to choose25 August 2015

Three To See on 25 Aug: Hitch, Japan Marvelous Drummers, Stuart Bowden24 August 2015

Amee Smith: Voyage around a father23 August 2015

Three To See on 24 Aug: Jimmy McGhie, Women's Hour, BEASTS23 August 2015

Photo Shoot: From Kat's camera22 August 2015

Rebecca Perry: An ode to ginger (or the redheaded renaissance)21 August 2015

Total Theatre Awards shortlists announced20 August 2015

Three To See on 21 Aug: Women’s Hour, Roughs (For Radio), BARBU Electro Trad Cabaret20 August 2015

Another awards round up: Angels, Posters and more19 August 2015

Three To See on 19 Aug: Off The Mic, Simon Thacker, The Very Grey Matter Of Edward Blank18 August 2015

Angella Kwon: Showcasing Korea at the Fringe18 August 2015

Three To See on 17 Aug: Bathtime, Balletronic, Bucket16 August 2015

Ben Norris: Talking love, loss and motorways16 August 2015

Three To See on 16 Aug: Ben Norris, The Last Kill, James Acaster15 August 2015

Three To See on 15 Aug: Jessie Cave, The Bookbinder, Splitfoot14 August 2015

First Fringe Firsts presented for 201514 August 2015

Three To See on 14 Aug: Fills Monkey, The School Of Night, Scaramouche Jones13 August 2015

Samuel Brett Williams: Top Ten Theatre Walk-Outs13 August 2015

Elspeth Turner: Ballads of old inspire writing new13 August 2015

Three To See on 12 Aug: Valiant, Jazzamatazz!, Jonny Awsum11 August 2015

Three To See on 11 Aug: Penny Ashton, Jethro Compton, Jonny And The Baptists10 August 2015

Three To See 2015: A bonus set from Meet The Media9 August 2015

Three To See 2015: Something A Little Different8 August 2015

Three To See 2015: Theatrical Solo Shows7 August 2015

Three To See 2015: ThreeWeeks Approved Theatre7 August 2015

John Hinton: Why threes are (scientifically) magic5 August 2015

Shelley Mitchell: Performing with angels5 August 2015

Three To See 2015: Verbatim Performances30 July 2015

Three To See 2015: Autobiographical30 July 2015

Stuart Bowden: Reversing into the Fringe28 July 2015

Máire Clerkin: Confessions of a dodgy Irish dancer27 July 2015

ED2015 THEATRE REVIEWS

17 Border Crossings (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental in association with Aurora Nova) 18 Foot Story (Z Theatre Company) 1972 - The Future Of Sex (The Wardrobe Ensemble) 887 (Ex Machina / Robert Lepage) A Divine Comedy (Mike Maran Productions) A Face That Fits (Moonfly Theatre Company) A Fine Line (Ronnie Dorsey Productions) A Gambler's Guide To Dying (Gary McNair with Show And Tell) A Game Of You (Ontroerend Goed) A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing (Corn Exchange) A Very British Childhood (Pelican's Briefs) Acts Of Redemption (Unrestricted View) Ada (Edinburgh University Theatre Company) After We Danced (NoLogoProductions) Am I Dead Yet? (Unlimited Theatre) An Oak Tree (Tim Crouch) Angel In The Abattoir (Comedians Theatre Company) Angry (The Pub Corner Poets) As Is (Mice On A Beam) At The Break Of Dawn (Red Queen Theatre) Attempts On Her Life (Brodrick Productions) Backstage In Biscuit Land (Touretteshero) Bathtime (Richard Purnell) Billy Through The Window - Bellow Theatre Black Is The Color Of My Voice (Play The Spotlight Theatre) Blake Remixed (West Yorkshire Playhouse) BLAM! (Kristján Ingimarsson / Neander) Blind Cinema (Britt Hatzius) Blood Wedding (Minerva Company @ NHEHS) Bold Girls (New Celts Productions and Laughing Hen Productions) Bortle 8 (Chris Davis) Broken Windows (Piú Theatre) Brute (Izzy Tennyson) Can I Start Again Please (Sue MacLaine and Nadia Nadarajah) Cartography (The Lincoln Company) CELL (Smoking Apples And Dogfish) Cherry Orchard - Beyond The Truth (Theatre Margot, Korea) Chopping Chillies (Clair Whitefield / PBH Free Fringe) Cinema (ZENDEH) Clairvoyant (Bettine Mackenzie) Cleansed In Blood (Thom Jordan) Clickbait (The Red Chair Players) Complex (My Complex) Confessional by Tennessee Williams (Tramp) Confirmation (Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin) Consumption (Two42 Company) Crash (Traverse Theatre Company) Current Location (Fellswoop Theatre) Cut (Underbelly Productions) Dead Letter Office (New Celts Productions and Some Company Productions) Dead Man's Cell Phone (UCLU Runaground) Derby Day (Camisade Theatre Company) Dicing With Dr Death (Dr Philip Nitschke) Dog Play Dead (The Well Behaved Women) Donald Does Dusty (Diane Torr) Down & Out In Paris And London (New Diorama Theatre / PIT / Greenwich Theatre) Dylan Thomas – The Man, The Myth (Theatre Tours International / Guy Masterson Productions) Eating Seals And Seagulls' Eggs (Little Wolf Productions) Echoes by Henry Naylor (Henry Naylor/Gilded Balloon) Edmund The Learned Pig (Fittings Multimedia Arts, Krazy Kat Theatre and The Royal Exchange) Ernie (Lisa Richards) Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company) Excuse Me, You're Sitting On My Penis Again (Lou Sanders) Fake It Till You Make It (Bryony Kimmings Ltd, Soho Theatre and Avalon Productions) Fault Lines (Phantom Owl Productions) Feast (Clout Theatre) Festivus (Signature Pictures) Fiction (Fuel, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath) Fiesta de Los Muertos (Modern Troubadors) Fills Monkey - Incredible Drum Show (Stories in Theatre Productions) Filthy Talk For Troubled Times (Phantom Owl Productions) Flight Lessons For The Ground That Grew Me (Wil Greenway) Fourth Monkey's Grim Tales - Hansel And Gretel Fourth Monkey's Grimm Tales - Little Red Cap (Fourth Monkey) Foxfinder (Master Of None) Frankenstein (Old Deerfield Productions) Garden (Lucy Grace) Giant Leap (Comedians Theatre Company) Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone (Greyscale) Going Viral (An ARC Production, written and performed by Daniel Bye) Gruesome Playground Injuries (Phantom Owl Productions) Hair Peace (Victoria Melody) Hamlet (A One Man Play) (Alfredo Padilla) Hannah And Hanna (Culture Clash / Greenwich Theatre) Heart Of Darkness (Scandal And Gallows Theatre) Heartbeats & Algorithms (Jenny Lee) Here Is The News From Over There (Over There Is The News From Here) – A Borderless Twitter Ballad Fresh From The Middle East Hug (Verity Standen) I Am Not Myself These Days (Fuel and Tom Stuart) I Heart Catherine Pistachio (Encounter) I'm Not Here Right Now (Dancing Brick and Soho Theatre) I, Elizabeth (Dyad Productions) If I Were Me (Antler Theatre) Impossible (The Spontaneity Shop) Iphigenia In Splott (Sherman Cymru) Jethro Compton presents Sirenia (Jethro Compton Productions) Jethro Compton's Frontier Trilogy - Blood Red Moon (Jethro Compton Productions) Jethro Compton's Frontier Trilogy - The Clock Strikes Noon (Jethro Compton Productions) Jethro Compton's Frontier Trilogy - The Rattlesnake's Kiss (Jethro Compton Productions) John Lennon In His Own Write (Baldynoggin Productions / PBH Free Fringe) Labels (Worklight Theatre) Le Gateau Chocolat - Black (Assembly Festival, Soho Theatre and nitroBEAT) Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Walrus Theatre) Lennon - Through A Glass Onion (GO Productions) Light Boxes (Grid Iron) Love In The Time Of Gilmore Girls (My Mate Dave) Lungs (Paines Plough) Mabinogion (BEDS) Maiden - A Recycled Fairy Tale (3Bugs Fringe Theatre) Man To Man (Wales Millennium Centre) Marriage (Ditto Productions in association with Comedians' Theatre Company and DLT) Mistaken - A Quartet Of Plays For One Actor (Hidden Bell Productions) Molly (Squint And The Pleasance) Mrs Dalloway (Theatre Paradok) Much Further Out Than You Thought (the MolinoGroup) Much Further Out Than You Thought (theMolinoGroup) My Beautiful Black Dog (Brigitte Aphrodite and Boom Shakala Productions) My Name is... (Tamasha) Nina Simone Black Diva Power (Arts Events Australia) No Strings (Pop-Up Theatre Company) Not The Horse (Naughty Corner Productions) Oh Gumtree (Blue Suit Theatre Company) One Above (PALP) One Day When We Were Young by Nick Payne (Fundamental Theatre Project) One For My Baby (Now You Know Theatre Company) Othello - An All Female Production (Smooth Faced Gentlemen) Paradise - Lost (3Bugs Fringe Theatre) Phantasmagoria (Hookhitch Theatre) Portrait (Fuel) Portraits In Motion (Volker Gerling in association with Aurora Nova) Pramkicker (Old Trunk) Project Haha (RemoteControl Theatre) Pussy (Tight Theatre / Free Festival) Reconciling (The Barrington Collective) Reformation9 (Luther & Bockelson) Reunion (Living Record Theatre Company) Richard III (Close Up Theatre) Roughs (For Radio) (Monkfish Theatre) Rowan James - Easy For You To Say (Rowan James / Cambridge Junction / New Wolsey Theatre / Stopgap Dance) S.E.N (No Prophet Theatre Company) Scaramouche Jones (EMX Management) Scattered (Triptych Theatre) Sex Rated G (Ines Wurth Presents) Shakespeare For Breakfast (C Theatre) Since Maggie Went Away (Ballydam Theatre - Jacqueline Nolan) Some People Talk About Violence (Barrel Organ) Some Thing New (Lion Theatre Company) Splitfoot (Piper Theatre Productions) Stuart Bowden - Wilting In Reverse (Stuart Bowden) Submarine (Popcorn Productions) Swallow (Traverse Theatre Company) Tar Baby (Desiree Burch and Platt Productions) Teaset (Amy Molloy and Kibo Productions) Tether (Lost Sock Company) The 56 (FYSA Theatre) The Alphabet Girl (Moxie Under Fire in association with Oldham Coliseum) The American Soldier (Douglas Taurel) The Beanfield (Breach) The Christians (Gate Theatre) The Colours Of Kenny Roach (Peppermint Muse) The Communist Threat (Rusted Dust) The Empire Builders (Theatre Hayal Perdesi - Turkey) The Eulogy Of Toby Peach (Toby Peach) The Glorious Damnation Of Eddie Small (Zut Alors Theatre) The Happy Warrior (Quarter Too Ensemble) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Family (Ben Norris) The King Of Monte Cristo (Watch This) The Last Kill (Contemporary Theatre Scotland) The Missing Hancocks - Live in Edinburgh! (Show A) (Something For The Weekend) The Night Watch (Antonia Goddard Productions in association with Jethro Compton Productions) The Red Chair (Clod Ensemble) The Remnants - As Thyself The Remnants - Threadbare The River (Brodrick Productions) The Rules – Sex, Lies And Serial Killers The School Of Night - Rhapsodes (Extempore Theatre / Something For The Weekend) The Soaking Of Vera Shrimp (Rosie and Me) The Solid Life Of Sugar Water (Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth) The Stolen Inches (The Small Things Theatre Company) The Sunset Five (DugOut Theatre) The Temptation Of St Anthony (The Mechanical Animal Corporation) The Very Grey Matter Of Edward Blank (Familia de la Noche) The Wild Man Of Orford (Rust and Stardust) The Wonderful Discovery Of Witches In The County Of Lancaster (Dawn State Theatre Company) The Worry Monster (Aireborne Theatre Leeds) The Year Of The Hare (Ryhmäteatteri) This Is How We Die (Christopher Brett Bailey) This Much (Or An Act Of Violence Towards The Institution of Marriage) (MOVING DUST) To Sleep To Dream (EarFilms) Tomorrow's Parties (Forced Entertainment) Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me (Made In China) Traces (Les 7 Doigts de la Main) Trainspotting (In Your Face & King's Head Theatre) Tribute Acts (TheatreState) Twin Primes (Chiasmus Productions) Valiant (Handan Productions) Walking The Tightrope, The Tension Between Art And Politics (Offstage Theatre / Underbelly Productions) Wasted (No Prophet Theatre Company) We May Have To Choose (Emma Hall) Weekend Rockstars (Middle Child Theatre) Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight (Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice) What I Learned From Johnny Bevan (Luke Wright) When Blair Had Bush And Bunga (Bungabunga Productions in association with The Pleasance) Where Do Little Birds Go? (Duckdown Theatre / HeavyWeather Theatre) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Rebecca Crookshank) Wilde Without The Boy (Cahoots Theatre Company)