ED2022 Index

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Edinburgh Festival 2022 saw the festival fully return after the COVID pandemic – and ThreeWeeks was back covering the proceedings once again, with our reviews, interviews and Three To See recommendations.

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INTERVIEWS 2022>>

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THREES TO SEE 2022>>

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REVIEWS 2022>>

(Le) Pain (DREAM) 1 Ball Show (Terence Hartnet) 20 Minutes Of Action (Lionheart Theatre) 2022 The Beginning Of The End - Vladimir McTavish (Vladimir McTavish/The Stand Comedy Club) 7 Seventeen-Year-Olds In A Screwed-Up World (Square Pegs – Macready Theatre Young Actors' Company) A Scandal From Bohemia (The Music Firm) A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Dan Colley And Riverbank Arts Centre) About Money (65% Theatre)  Afghanistan Is Not Funny by Henry Naylor (Redbeard Theatre) Age Is A Feeling (Soho Theatre) Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Alphonse (Theaturtle / Richard Jordan Productions / The Pleasance) An Idiom's Guide To The Galaxy (Captain Breadbeard Productions) An Irish Solution To An Irish Problem (Eddie Mullarkey) Angel Monster (Phluxus2 Dance Collective And Cluster Arts) Apartness (K4K Films And Shortcut Productions) Are You Being Murdered? (Arthur Bostrom Presented By James Seabright) Arty’s Ani-Magination (The Long Lane Theatre Company) Assisted (Oxia Theatre) AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS BUT IT’S TWO COMICS CALLED NATE KITCH AND CAITRIONA DOWDEN (PBH's Free Fringe) Badgers Can’t Be Friends (Raving Mask Theatre) Beautiful Nothing (Suffragette Theatre Company) Bee Story (ARC Circus And Cluster Arts) Beneath (Lighter Fluid Theatre Company and New Celts Productions) Best Of Burlesque (The Royals) Blanket Ban (Chalk Line Theatre And Untapped Award Winner 2022) Blood And Gold (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh / Mara Menzies) Blue (Acting Coach Scotland) Blue Badge Bunch (Ingenious Fools) Boy (Carly Wijs / De roovers / Teateri) Brennan Reece: Crowded (Live Nation in association with United Agents) BriTANick (Stamptown) Bundle Of Joy? (Hive MCR) Business Casual: Feral (Stamptown) Caligari (Chewboy Productions) Cassie And The Lights (Patch Of Blue) Chelsea Birkby: No More Mr Nice Chelsea Chloe Petts: Transience (Avalon Promotions) Chris Turner: Rap God (AEG Live) Christopher Bliss: Captain Words Eye (Berk's Nest in association with United Agents) Christopher MacArthur-Boyd: Oh No (Off The Kerb Productions) Cirque Berserk! (Cirque Berserk!) Classic! (Hope Mill Theatre / HER Productions) Concept For A Film (Second Body) Crone (Liam Webber) Crybabies: Bagbeard (PBJ Presents) Daddy Issues (Passing Stranger Theatre Company) Dear Little Loz (Izzy Parriss Productions Ltd) Death Of A Disco Dancer (Ultraviolet Productions) Dedication (Roger Peltzman) Dinosaurs And All That Rubbish (Roustabout Theatre) Doktor Kaboom And The Wheel of Science (Doktor K Worldwide And Something For The Weekend) Don’t Shoot the Albatross (GOYA Theatre Company) Double Drop (Dirty Protest Theatre) Dreams Of The Small Gods (Zinnia Oberst / Scissor Kick) Drop Dead Gorgeous (Same Same Collective) Edy Hurst's Comedy Version Of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of HG Wells' Literary Version (Via Orson Welles' Radio Version And Steven Spielberg's Film Version) Of The War Of The Worlds EGG (Erin Fowler Movement) Eglantyne (Anne Chamberlain) Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! (Simon Fielder productions) Elementa (Sian Eleanor Green) Elly Shaw And Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't (Elly Shaw And Elaine Fellows / Free Festival) Emmanuel Sonubi: Emancipated (Get Comedy Ltd) Encore (Histeria Teatro) Esther Manito: #NotAllMen (Plosive Live) Every Word Was Once An Animal (Ontroerend Goed) Everything Has Changed (Rhum + Clay in association with New Diorama Theatre) Exodus (National Theatre Of Scotland) False Start (Lucilia Caesar, Performing Arts Laboratory) Famous Puppet Death Scenes (The Old Trout Puppet Workshop) Fanboy (Worklight Theatre) Far Gone (Roots Mbili Theatre) Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Francesca Moody Productions) Fiji (Clay Party & Conflicted Theatre) Fladam’s Musical Comedy Hootennany (Fladam) Flo & Joan: Sweet Release (Avalon) Fool Muun Komming [BeBgWunderful / YEsyes / Hi5 . 4sure . TruLuv ; SpankSpank : SOfun _ Grate _ Times] (Sam Kruger) Foundations (Wrong Tree Theatre Company / Ultraviolet Productions) Frankie Thompson: Catts (Soho Theatre) Freddie Hayes: Potatohead (Freddie Hayes in association with Pleasance and York Theatre Royal) Fritz And Matlock (Part Of The Main / Pleasance) Garrett Millerick: Just Trying To Help (Katie Storey Productions In Association With Avalon) Ghost Unit: The Live Event (ICTF Presents Southwestern University and Grackle Jack Productions) Ghosts Of The Near Future (emma + pj) God Damn Fancy Man (James Nokise / Free Festival) Good Grief (Ugly Bucket And Untapped Award Winner 2022) Grace Petrie: Butch Ado About Nothing (Grace Petrie) Gulliver (Box Tale Soup) Hal Cruttenden: It's Best You Hear It From Me (Impatient Productions / Blue Book Artist Management) Half-Empty Glasses (Paines Plough / Rose Theatre Kingston) Happy Meal (Roots / Theatre Royal Plymouth With ETT And Oxford Playhouse) Home Is Not The Place (Annie George) Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far (Horrigan And Howell) How To Build A Wax Figure (November Theatre) How To Live A Jellicle Life: Life Lessons From The 2019 Hit Movie Musical CATS (Linus Karp And Awkward Productions) Human Fountains Hummus: After Dark (George Belcher / Free Festival) Hungry (Paines Plough / 45 North) In The Weeds by Joseph Wilde (An Tobar / Mull Theatre) Intelligence (Dutch Kills Theater) Invisible Mending (Yoshika Colwell and Second Body) Isabelle Farah: Irresponsabelle It All (Cameron Cook) It's Fraser Brown - I'm Afraid Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How to Teach Jake Cornell And Marcia Belsky: Man And Woman (Stamptown) Jake Farrell: Sky (Berk's Nest) Jake Lambert: Liminal (Off The Kerb Productions Limited) Jeremy Segway: A Life Out Of Balance (Presented By The Duncan Brothers) (The Duncan Brothers / PBH's Free Fringe) Jessica Fostekew: Wench  Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me (Lawrence Batley Theatre With KETCHUP Productions And Richard Jordan Productions) John Robertson: The Dark Room (Lee Martin For Gag Reflex) Julia Masli: CHOOSH! (Impatient Productions Ltd) Kate Butch: Wuthering Shites Kathy And Stella Solve A Murder! (Francesca Moody Productions) Kiran Saggu And Sarah Roberts: Cake (Kiran Saggu And Sarah Roberts) Kwame Asante: Living In Sin (Impatient Productions / Blue Book Artist Management) Land: A Scottish Musical (Kick The Door) Leaving Vietnam (Andy Jordan Productions) Leo Reich: Literally, Who Cares?! (IAM) Let’s Talk About Philip (Helen Wood And Something For The Weekend) Liv Ello: SWARM Lizard Boy (Creative Endeavor Office And Blair Russell Productions) Lots And Not Lots (Greg Sinclair And Scottish Theatre Producers) Lou Sanders: One Word: Wow (Plosive Live In Association With Avalon Management) Luke Wright: The Remains Of Logan Dankworth (Luke Wright) Magic Roman’s Summer Holidays (Chip And Pin Theatre) Man Shed (Right Lines Productions / Pleasance / Eden Court) Manhood (Aurora Theatre Art Co) Manic Street Creature (Maimuna Memon) Mark Grimshaw: Hit Me With Your Autistic (PBH's Free Fringe) Mark Thomas: Black And White (Mark Thomas / The Stand Comedy Club) Mary Beth Barone: Silly Little Girl (Show And Tell) Masterclass (Brokentalkers And Adrienne Truscott) Mat Ewins: Danger Money (IAM) Materia (Aurora Nova and Andrea Salustri)  Megalith (Mechanimal) Melissa Stephens: HOT DOGS & TEARS! (IAMA Theatre Company) Milo Edwards: Voicemail (Impatient Productions) Move Fast And Break Things (Freight Theatre)  Mustard (Sunday's Child / Fishamble / The New Play Company) My Lover Was A Salmon In The Climate Apocalypse (Bradán) Ned Kelly’s Mother (Neil Cole) Nightlands by Jack MacGregor (Dogstar Theatre Company)  North Star (What I Listened To Instead Of My Intuition) (Lori Hamilton) Ode To Joy (How Gordon Got To Go To The Nasty Pig Party) (Stories Untold Productions, Written By James Ley)  Omid Djalili: The Good Times One Of Two (Jack Hunter / Birds Of Paradise Theatre) Opal Fruits (Holly Beasley-Garrigan / Pleasance / Bristol Old Vic) Pain And I (Sarah Hopfinger) Palimpsest (What About The Woo Productions) Pash (Seemingly Wholesome Productions) Paul Foot: Swan Power (IMWP) Pauline (Sophie Bentinck) Pear (Indigo Productions) Pete Heat: Blimey Posey Mehta: I Am Not A Gorilla (Babycakes Theatre) Project Dictator (Rhum + Clay)  Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) (Myths Unbound Productions / New Celts Productions) Raging Mother (From Start To Finnish) Rajesh And Naresh (ŠITE Productions) Real, Mad World (Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club) Rich Hall SOLD OUT: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE (Off The Kerb) Rob Madge: My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do) (Paul Taylor-Mills) Rob Rouse: No Refunds Robyn Perkins: Million Dollar Maybe Ruckus (Wildcard) Runners (Cirk La Putyka) Sam Lake: Cake (Katie Storey Productions in association with Hannah Layton Management) Sandcastles (Brite Theater) SAP (Atticist / Ellie Keel Productions / MAST / Mayflower Studios / 45North) Schalk Bezuidenhout: I'll Make Laugh To You (Like You Want Me To) (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Sean McLoughlin: So Be It (PBJ Management) Séayoncé:  Res-erection (Berk's Nest And Dan Wye) Seen 00:25 (Modern Day Chronicles) Self Service (Anne Rabbitt) Seymour Mace Presents Captain Winky’s Fuck Off Olympics (Seymour Mace / The Stand Comedy Club) Shame On You! (Arnold and Komarov Travelling Theatre, part of Swiss Selection Edinburgh)  She/Her (Brian Cox and Actors Rising Productions) SHEWOLVES (SHEWOLVES / Pleasance / Leicester Curve) Sikisa: Life Of The Party (Berk's Nest In Association With Blue Book Artist Management) Simon Munnery: Trials And Tribulations (Show And Tell) Sleepover (Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society) Smashing Shakespeare: Juliet And Her Romeo (Captivate Theatre) Soho Boy (LAMBCO Productions)  Something In The Water (Scantily Glad Theatre) Sooz Kempner: Playstation (Sooz Kempner / PBH's Free Fringe) Space Hippo (Mochinosha Puppet Company) Splash Test Dummies (Underbelly And Dummies Corp) Sticky Door (Katie Arnstein) Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure! (Play People Productions) Swell (Tom Foreman Productions) Tales Of Vomit, Trash And Broken Glass (Not So Nice! / New Celts Productions) Tenderly (Rain Theatre) Thanyia Moore: Just Being Funny (Soho Theatre) The After-Dinner Joke (Agree To Disagree Theatre / New Celts Productions) The Anorak (Finn McGee) The Chairs Revisited (Vagabond Productions) The Dan Daw Show (Dan Daw Creative Projects) The Dark Room For Kids (Lee Martin For Gag Reflex) The Endling (Strange Futures) The Funny Thing About Death (Kim Kalish) The Gods, The Gods, The Gods (Wright & Grainger / Hartstone-Kitney Productions) The Hippie Shakes (Sweaty Palms Productions) The Lost Letters (Newbury Youth Theatre)  The Mermaid And The Cow (Lindsey Cole) The Penelopiad (Muchmuchmore Theatre) The Return Of The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (Blue Jeans Management) The Ugly Animal Preservation Society (Simon Watt) The Village And The Road (Tom Pow / The Galloway Agreement) The Wonder Games (Nic Doodson Productions) This Is Not A Show About Hong Kong (Max Percy + Friends And Untapped Award Winner 2022)  Tinted (Scripped Up) Today I Killed My First Bird (Voodoo Monkeys And Theatre Royal Plymouth) Tom DeTrinis: I Hate New York (IAMA Theatre Company) Tom Mayhew: Trash Rich (Tom Mayhew / Objectively Funny / The Stand Comedy Club) Tony Law: A Now Begin In Again (Tony Law / Strip Light Productions) Waterloo (Bron Batten) We Were Promised Honey! (YESYESNONO) Weegie Hink Ae That? ( W.H.A.T?) Whirlygig (Daniel Padden, Co-Produced With Catherine Wheels And Red Bridge Arts) Who Here’s Lost? (Ben Moor) Who Murdered My Cat? (Roann Hassani McCloskey) Will Pickvance: Half Man Half Piano Work.txt (Nathan Ellis) Yellow Bird Chase (Liars And Believers) Zoë (A Good Catch And Cluster Arts)

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