ED2017 Index

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Edinburgh Festival 2017 saw ThreeWeeks return for its twenty-second year, once again covering the International, Book and Art festivals and the awe inspiring Edinburgh Fringe, via our magazine, bulletin, podcasts and website.

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INTERVIEWS 2017>>

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THREES TO SEE 2017>>

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REVIEWS 2017>>

(FEAR) (Mr And Mrs Clark) 1917: A Phantasmagoria (Michael Daviot) 2 Become 1 (Kings Head Theatre and Swipe Right) A Girl And A Gun (Louise Orwin) A Gym Thing (Working Cast Productions / Small Things Theatre) A Hunger Artist (Sinking Ship Productions) A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Silent Uproar in association with LittleMighty) A Year Of Minutes (Fourth Wall Theatre) Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea (Unholy Mess in association with Omnibus) Acéléré by Circolombia (Circolombia in association with Underbelly) Adrian Minkowicz: Best Newcomer (Double The Bet / PBH's Free Fringe) Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game (Total Party Kill! in association with Sweet Venues) Alasdair Beckett-King: The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Alexander Fox: Ringo (Alexander Fox) All KIDding Aside (Christel Bartelse / DutchGirl Productions) All My Friends Are Dead (Conor Drum) All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Middle Child) Amy Conway's Super Awesome World (RiotBox Productions) Amy Howerska: Goddess Unless Tired Or Hungry (Amy Howerska) An Act Of Kindness (Rascal Theatre) An Evening With An Immigrant (Inua Ellams and Fuel) Andy Daly: Monsters Take Your Questions (Rabbit Rabbit) Andy Stedman - Parental Guidance (Andy Stedman) Angela Barnes: Fortitude (Off The Kerb Productions) Annie McGrath: Ambivert (Plosive Productions) Aquapella: Happy Hour (Aquapella) Arbikie Pipers Game Of Drones (Arbikie Pipers) Arna Spek: Museum Piece (To The Moon) Arr We There Yet? (Head First Acrobats) Assessment (Shows On A Shoestring) At A Stretch (Jordan And Skinner) Aunty Donna: Big Boys (Century Entertainment) Awake (Miranda Colmans) Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide To Consciousness (Soho Playhouse Inc) Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest To Give Her Child To Gay People (Mariah MacCarthy) Bacchae (Flying Pig Theatre Company) Barry Crimmins: Atlas's Knees (Barry Crimmins / Lakin McCarthy / The Stand Comedy Club) Batacchio (Cirk La Putyka) Beadledom: Alpha (Familia De La Noche) Beadledom: Omega (Familia De La Noche) Becky Lucas: Little Bitch (Century Entertainment) Behind The Mirror (Go Theatre Company) Bin Laden: The One Man Show (Knaive Theatre) Box Clever (Nabokov and The Marlowe) Brendon Burns And Craig Quartermaine In Race Off (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Brennan Reece: Everlong (Live Nation in association with United Agents) Brexit The Musical (Strong and Stable Productions) Brick City: The Backstage Tour! (Warren Elsmore) Britney In: John (Country Mile Productions) Broke As A Joke (Danny Lobell) Bruce (Underbelly and The Last Great Hunt) Brutal Cessation (Michelle Barnette Productions Limited) Burnt Toast (Place Productions) Butt Kapinski (Kapinski Enterprises and The Pleasance) Cacophony (Cast Iron Theatre) Caleidocello (Peter Hudler Cello) Calvinball (Ipdip Theatre) Carla Lippis – Cast A Dark Shadow (Civil Disobedience presents Carla Lippis) Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts - Free (St Mary's Cathedral) Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts – Free (St Mary's Cathedral) Cathy (Cardboard Citizens) Certain Young Men (Cambridge University Queer Players) Children Are Stinky (Circus Trick Tease) Chris Martin: The One And Only Chris Martin (So Comedy) Chris Washington: Dream Big (Within Reason) Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (JJewell Productions) Circa: Humans (Closer, Beyond, Wunderkammer) City Love (Illuminate Productions / PBH's Free Fringe) Cognitions (SpeakUp Theatre) Colin Hoult / Anna Mann In How We Stop The Fascists (Berk's Nest) Columns (The Wax House Theatre Company) Communism: The Musical! (Lancaster Offshoots) Cosmic Scallies (Graeae Theatre Company and Royal Exchange Theatre) Courtney Act: The Girl From Oz (Working Management) Cow (Jessica Barker-Wren) Crave (Pembroke Players) D'Arcehole (Jo D'Arcy) Dana Alexander: The Milk Is Not Free But Sometimes It's On Sale (Dana Alexander / The Stand Comedy Club) Dane Baptiste: G.O.D (Gold. Oil. Drugs) (Bound and Gagged Comedy in association with UTC Artist Management) Danny O'Brien: RaconTour (Danny O'Brien by arrangement with Corrie McGuire for ROAR Comedy) Dates - At The Speed Of Sound! (Ace-Production / From Start To Finnish) David Trent: Here's Your Future (Phil McIntyre Entertainments) Death In Venice (Edinburgh Ballet Circle) Demi Lardner: Look What You Made Me Do (Underbelly and Laughing Stock) Derailed (Little Soldier Productions) Dickless (Fundamental Theatre Project / Salt 'n' Sauce Promotions) Did I Choose These Shoes (Rhythm Theatre Company) DIGS (Theatre With Legs) Doglife (Grassmarket Projects) Dollhouse (Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan) DollyWould (Sh!t Theatre with Show And Tell) Douze (X And Co in association with 21 Theatre) Dr Zeiffal, Dr Zeigal And The Hippo That Can Never Be Caught (Mouths of Lions) Dust (Milly Thomas) Eaten (Mamoru Iriguchi) Echoes And Traces (Cappella Nova) Edd Hedges: Wonderland (RBM) Edinburgh Renaissance Band - Musical Migrants (Edinburgh Renaissance Band) Egg (Theodora Van Der Beek / PBH Free Fringe) Eggs Collective Get A Round (Eggs Collective) Elf Lyons: Swan (Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management) Elixir (Underbelly and Head First Acrobats) Elsa Jean McTaggart: Sings, Strings And Other Things (Elsa Jean McTaggart) Ensemble Kla_Vier: Four Men, Four Pianos (Ensemble Kla_Vier) Enterprise (Americana Absurdum Productions) Eshaan Akbar: Not For Prophet (CKP & ROAR Group Present) Fin Taylor: Lefty Tighty Righty Loosey (Fin Taylor) Finding Nana (New Perspectives Theatre Company) Five Encounters On A Site Called Craigslist (YesYesNoNo) Fix (Worklight Theatre) Fleabag (DryWrite and Soho Theatre in association with Underbelly) ForniKATEress (Kate Smurthwaite / PBH's Free Fringe) Found Footage Festival (Perfect Strangers Comedy) Francesco De Carlo: Comfort Zone (Mick Perrin Worldwide Artist Management) Frankie Boyle - Prometheus Volume I (Chambers Touring) Free Fringe Music (National Museum Of Scotland) Frigid: A Musical Worth Melting For (Napier University Drama Society) Games And After Liverpool by James Saunders (Blind Elephant) GayShit (Wayne Carter) Gazing At A Distant Star (Greenwich Theatre) Giants: For An Hour (Fight In The Dog Ltd in association with United Agents) Gillian Cosgriff: To The Moon And Back (Julz Hay Proudly presents) Godspell (Shotgun Theatre) Goody (BoonDog Theatre) Goose: Amphetawaltz (So Comedy by arrangement with Troika) Graham Dickson Is The Narcissist (Berk's Nest in association with PBJ Entertainment) Gutted (The Conker Group) Hear Me Raw (Áine Flanagan Productions and Lipsink in association with United Agents) Hopeless (Leyla Josephine) Hot Brown Honey (Briefs Factory) Hotter (Transgression Productions) How to Be A Sissy With Percy Q Shun (South By Northwest) How To Win Against History (Áine Flanagan Productions and Seiriol Davies present) I Am Faransis W. (sadsongskomplex:fi / From Start To Finnish) I Can Make You Tory (Leo Kearse) Ian Smith: Snowflake (Bound And Gagged Comedy) Imaginary Radio (Drennon Davis Jim Hickox - Bigtop Productions) Iphigenia Crash Land Falls On The Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (A Rave Fable) (Clumsy Bodies) Jack Barry: High Treason (Berk's Nest in association with Avalon Management) James Adomian: Lacking In Character (Live Nation) Jamie McDowell And Tom Thum (Hey Boss) Jamie Wood: I Am A Tree Jason Byrne: The Man With Three Brains (Phil McIntyre Entertainments by arrangement with Lisa Thomas Management) Joan (Milk Presents) Joe Hart: Alpha, Beta, Gamer (Total Comedy) JoJo Bellini: Crash-Bang Cabaret! (JoJo Bellini / The Stand Comedy Club) Jordan Brookes: Body Of Work (Show And Tell) Julio Torres: My Favourite Shapes (Rabbit Rabbit) Just William's Luck (Shedload Theatre) Kafka And Son (Theaturtle, Threshold, Richard Jordan Productions in association with the Pleasance) Kat Bond: Loo Roll (Kathryn Bond and PBJ Management present) Kin (Barely Methodical Troupe in association with Underbelly) Knock Knock (Niv Petel) Kwame Asante: Open Arms (CKP and ROAR) L'Orfeo - English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Edinburgh International Festival) La Maladie De La Mort D'Après Marguerite Duras (Collectif Or Normes) Last Resort (2Magpies Theatre) Lauren Bok: Is That a Burrito in Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy You Have A Burrito (Lauren Bok) Like Blood From A Cheap Cigar (Genevieve Joy) Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Sisters Grimm) Losers (Tit4Twat) Losing Days (Initiative 26 / Salt 'n' Sauce Productions) Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn (Lost Voice Guy / The Stand Comedy Club) Louise Reay: Hard Mode (Louise Reay / The Stand Comedy Club) Lucy Pearman: Maid Of Cabbage (United Agents and Plosive Productions) Lula Del Ray by Manual Cinema (Underbelly and Manual Cinema) Maddy Anholt - Herselves (Maddy Anholt/Corrie McGuire for ROAR Comedy/Moneybox) MANWATCHING (Royal Court Theatre) Mark Steel: Every Little Thing's Gonna Be Alright (Off the Kerb Productions) Mary Go Nowhere (Black Rocking Chair Productions) Mavis Sparkle (M6 Theatre Company) Me And My Bee (ThisEgg) Me And Robin Hood (Hoipolloi & Royal Court in association with Theatre Royal) Mental (Kane Power Theatre) Michael Clarke: A Felt In Progress (PBJ Management) Michael Stranney: Welcome To Ballybeg (Michael Stranney) Micky P Kerr Is Lay-Z (Micky P Kerr) Mine (Put The Book Down) Misha's Gang (Russian String Orchestra) Mission Abort (Therese Ramstedt) Modern Maori Quartet: That's Us! (The Modern Maori Quartet Ltd) Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) (Powder Keg) Morgan Stern (Company Of Rogues) Murder She Didn’t Write (Degrees Of Error & Something for the Weekend) Muriel: Bad Master (Muriel in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management) My Pet, My Love (Marc Up Productions) Nazeem Hussain: Hussain In The Membrane (Nazeen Hussain) Nick Cody: On Fire (MZA in association with Century Entertainment) Nick Revell vs Lily, Evil Cat Queen Of Earth Planet And The Laughing Fridge (Nick Revell/The Stand Comedy Club) Noose Women (Bear Faced Moon Company and New Celts Productions) Not I (Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre) Odyssey (Theatre Ad Infinitum) One-Man Apocalypse Now (Chris Davis) Organ Freeman (Jarlath Regan) Oskar's Amazing Adventure (Theatre Fideri Fidera) Out Of Love (Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree) Overshare (Pieces Of Us Theatre Company) Paper Doll (Weird Sisters) Patrick Turpin: Itty Bitty Little Titty Piece (Live Nation in association with Hannah Layton Management) Paul McCaffrey: Suburban Legend (Paul McCaffrey / Off The Kerb Productions) Penetrator (Fear No Colours) Perfectly Imperfect Women (Wizard Presents) Performers (Performers Ltd) Perhaps Perhaps Quizás (Gabriela Muñoz in association with Aurora Nova) Phil Wang: Kinabalu (Avalon Promotions Ltd) Phoebe Traquair Song School Murals - Free (St Mary's Cathedral) Phools (Babolin Theatre) Pianologues (Will Pickvance) Pike St (Barrow Street Productions) Pistorius: A Shakespearean Tragedy (The Mermaids Performing Arts Fund) Pity Laughs: A Tale Of Two Gays (Straightup) Planet Caramel: Hot, Sexy And Kind Of Desperate (Planet Caramel / PBH's Free Fringe) Police Cops In Space (The Pretend Men) Pornography by Simon Stephens (The Lincoln Company) Power Ballad (Zanetti Productions) Prévert: Piano And Poetry (Alexandre Prévert) Princes Of Main: New Year's Eve (Princes Of Main) Professional (CUSP) Prom Kween (Áine Flanagan Productions in association with Underbelly Untapped) Quarter Life Crisis (Yolanda Mercy and Gemma Lloyd in association with Underbelly Untapped) Rachel Jackson: Bunny Boiler (Hannah Layton Management) Rachel Parris: Keynote (Live Nation in association with Troika) Ramy: In The Frontline (Viirus Theatre / From Start to Finnish) Rob Auton: The Hair Show (Rob Auton) Rose Matafeo: Sassy Best Friend (Berk's Nest in association with Avalon Management) Sam Goodburn: Dumbstruck (Underbelly and Sam Goodburn) Sam Shaber: Life, Death And Duran Duran (Sam Shaber) Sara Pascoe: LadsLadsLads (Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management) Sarah And Duck's Big Top Birthday (MEI Theatrical) Scene (Black girl/White girl and Pembroke Players) Scottish Superwomen Of Science - Minerva Scientifica (Electric Voice Theatre) Séance (Darkfield) Service! (Clock Tower Theatre) Seymour Mace's Magical Shitcakes From Heaven (Seymour Mace / The Stand Comedy Club) Shake, Rattle 'n' Roll (Ian Munro) Shazia Mirza, With Love from St Tropez (MTM Productions) Shit I'm In Love With You Again (Crowning Monkey) Shit-Faced Showtime: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (Magnificent Bastard Productions) Show Me The Money (Paula Varjack) Sign Of The Times (Rumble Theatre) Simon Amstell: Tour Previews (Work In Progress) (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Simon And Garfunkel: Through The Years (Bookends) Sisters: White Noise (Sisters) SoftLOUD (Sean Shibe) Spontaneous Sherlock (Spontaneous Sherlock / PBH Free Fringe) Staging Wittgenstein (Blair Simmons and Nathan Sawaya Productions) Stiff Dicky (JunkBox Theatre) Storyteller (The Owle Screame) Stuart Laws Stops (Plosive Productions) Suspicious Minds (Tom Fowler and The Pleasance) Syd And Sylvia (Claudia Jefferies / PBH's Free Fringe) Taiwan Season: Ever Never (Co-coism) Taiwan Season: Together Alone (Zoltán Vakulya, Chen-Wei Lee x ART B&B) Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis (Sara Juli) That Moment (Blueleaf Theatre Company) The Accidental Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Tobacco Tea Theatre Company) The Bearpit (Kopfkino) The Blues Brothers - Live (Nicholas Abrams And Richard Williamson Present) The Charlie Question (Je Ne Sais Quoi Theatre) The Chess Player (Theatre Omnibus - Massachusetts, USA) The Crossing Place (Romantika) The Damned United (Red Ladder Theatre and Unity Theatre Liverpool) The Dark Room For Kids (CatFace Talent / John Robertson) The Delightful Sausage: Cold Hard Cache (The Delightful Sausage) The Dreamer (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in association with Gecko) The Gardener (Cumbernauld Theatre) The Giant Jam Sandwich (New Perspectives Theatre Company) The Giant Killers (The Long Lane Theatre Company) The Good Person of Sichuan – The Italia Conti Ensemble (Theatre) The Great Ridolphi (The Last Great Hunt) The Gruffalo's Child (Tall Stories) The Harry And Chris Show 2 (Harry Baker and Chris Read) The Hero Who Overslept (Bravebeard Productions and Fringe Management) The Inane Chicanery Of A Certain Adam GC Riches (Tigco) The Inevitable Quiet Of The Crash (Leoe & Hyde in association with FoxTale Productions) The James Taylor Story (Night Owl Productions) The Kingston University Brass Ensemble (Kingston University) The Laramie Project (The Italia Conti Ensemble) The Lulu Show: Life On The Never-Never (Gilded Balloon Presents...) The Narrator (Spitfire Company) The Nature Of Forgetting (Theatre Re) The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show (CKP) The North (Joan Clevillé Dance) The North! The North! (Christopher Harrisson) The OS Map Fan Club (Helen Wood) The Pitchfork Disney (Gone Rogue Productions) The Polar Bears Go Up (The Polar Bears / Unicorn Theatre London) The Remains Of Tom Lehrer (Performed by Adam Kay) (Amateur Transplants presented by James Seabright) The Road That Wasn't There (Trick of the Light / Zanetti Productions) The Shape Of The Pain (China Plate, Rachel Bagshaw and Chris Thorpe) The Starship Osiris (Willis & Vere) The Unmarried (Lauren Gauge) The Waiting Game (Snowy Owl) Things We Find In The Dark (Echo Echo Echo) This Really Is Too Much (Gracefool Collective in association with Underbelly Untapped) Three Colours Guitar (Declan Zapala, John Wheatcroft and Matt Buchanan) Tiernan Douieb: Miserably Happy (Tiernan Douieb / PBH's Free Fringe) Tim Vine: Sunset Milk Idiot (Bound & Gagged Comedy) To Hell In A Handbag (Helen Norton and Jonathan White) Tom Goodliffe's Coffee Run (EMX Management) Tom Neenan: Attenborough (Berk's Nest) Tomás Ford: Craptacular (Civil Disobedience) Tony Law: Absurdity For The Common People (Tony Law/The Stand Comedy Club) Topical Storm 2017 (The Stand Comedy Club) Trash Test Dummies (Underbelly) Trashed (Lab Rats) Tribe (Temper Theatre) Trump'd! (Two Thirds Comedy) Ukelele Death Squad (Ukelele Death Squad) Under My Thumb (CultureClash Theatre and Greenwich Theatre) Venus And Adonis (Noontide Sun and Christopher Hunter) Victim (Bruised Sky Productions) Violin Variations (Ian Peaston) Wanna Dance With Somebody! Or, A Guide To Managing Social Anxiety Using Theoretical Physics (Running Dog Theatre) We Are All Going to Die (Dead Person Productions) We Are Ian (In Bed With My Brother) We Are Still All C*nts (Ashley Haden) Whalebone (Hatch It Theatre) What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors (Joue Le Genre / Noel Gay Artists) What Would Cathy Do? (40 Watt Pearl - Australia) Wild Bore (Soho Theatre and Malthouse Theatre) Will Duggan: Perspicuator Yianni Agisilaou: Pockets Of Equality (Yianni Agisilaou / PBH's Free Fringe) You Are Not the One Who Shall Live Long (DOT504) £¥E$ (LIES) (Ontroerend Goed)

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