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Theatre

REVIEW: Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her), Edinburgh Fringe 2021, ★★★★★

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

She's been putting together a kick ass speech for a year now. But in the moment that she meets him, she accidentally agrees to go...

Spoken Word Theatre

REVIEW: For All The Love You Lost, Morosophy Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★☆☆

Jake Mace

August 18, 2021December 30, 2021

What does it mean to love? How does grief express itself? How can we forgive others, and most importantly, ourselves? For All The Love You...

Theatre

REVIEW: Bromance, Barely Methodical Troupe, Edinburgh Fringe 2021, ★★★☆☆

Jake Mace

August 18, 2021

Bromance bills itself as subverting conventional circus tricks and styles with playful techniques. There is no doubt that they are successful in this aim, as...

Theatre

REVIEW: It’s Not Rocket Science, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★★

Jake Mace

August 17, 2021December 31, 2021

Ready for lift off? Science, feminism, philosophy and social commentary collide in It’s Not Rocket Science in all the right doses. Eve begins as a...

Theatre

REVIEW: Corpsing, Red Rabbit Theatre & New Celts Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆

Jake Mace

August 17, 2021December 30, 2021

Where did all those bodies come from? Corpsing kicks off in true dark humour style - a wily undertaker's assistant dragging a binbag-clad corpse across...

Comedy Theatre

REVIEW: Drown Your Sorrows!, Balderdash Theatre Company, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★☆☆

Jake Mace

August 17, 2021August 17, 2021

"Are you a Cowboy? Or are you just a boy?"- Drown Your Sorrows! Four bartenders are on an adventure to find the Elixir of Life...

Theatre

REVIEW: Afterparty, New Celts Productions & F-Bomb Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆

Jake Mace

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021

One of the great benefits of this year's Fringe being smaller and much more local has been the opportunity for Scottish voices to step forward...

Theatre

REVIEW: Madhouse, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆

Jake Mace

August 16, 2021December 30, 2021

"Fuck, Marry, Kill - Theresa May, Andrea Leadsom, Priti Patel.""Can I just kill myself?"- Madhouse Chaos, confusion and, often, hilarity sit at the centre of...

News

Binge Fringe is back for EdFringe 2021!

Jake Mace

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

After what has been an infinitely turmoil-filled year for all of us in the arts community, your favourite alcohol-infused reviewers have returned for another year...

News

Reflections On An Online Festival – Paris Fringe 2020

Jake Mace

July 8, 2020

Last week Paris Fringe 2020 came to an end. Shows from across the world intrepidly embarked on a journey of translating their stage performances into...

Theatre

REVIEW: Trying, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★☆☆

Jake Mace

July 8, 2020December 30, 2021

Trying is the odyssey of Annina Claesson's Sinead and Ivan du Pontavice's Ronan's attempts at trying to get pregnant. We follow their journey over several...

Theatre

REVIEW: Skank, Clementine Bogg-Hargroves & Future Artists, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★☆

Jake Mace

July 1, 2020December 30, 2021

Carrying an entire show's presence with one actor and one character is always an extraordinary feat. The success of one-actor shows often tends to be...

Theatre

REVIEW: Shame, Aida Llukaj, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★☆

Daisy Gray

June 30, 2020December 30, 2021

Theatre concerning the toils of womanhood has the power to inspire as well as teach, and Shame succeeds on all fronts. Much of the beauty...

Music Theatre

REVIEW: The Diva, Anita Luna, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★☆☆

Jake Mace

June 24, 2020December 30, 2021

We are first introduced to Anita Luna - The Diva in what appears to be her dressing room. In a mesmerising performance livestreamed in its...

Theatre

REVIEW: 55, DeadPoet, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★☆

Daisy Gray

June 24, 2020December 30, 2021

55 is a visual dramatic work inspired by the yellow paintings of Francis Bacon. We find ourselves immediately in a closed and secluded space with few...

Spoken Word Theatre

REVIEW: Necessary Devil by Knight and Dais Entertainment, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★☆☆☆

Mike Dorey

June 18, 2020June 24, 2020

This moment was always going to arrive. The moment where a show intended for the stage has to make a move to online streaming, and...

Spoken Word

REVIEW: Growing into My Skin, Ioana Goga, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★☆

Aditi Mohan

June 14, 2020June 24, 2020

There is something to be said about a piece of art which has the scope to be both deeply personal and widely universal. Ioana Goga’s...

Music

REVIEW: Wave Form, Aria Scarlett, Paris Fringe Festival, 2020 ★★★☆☆

Aditi Mohan

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

Moving any type of theatre to online live streaming has its challenges, as I’m sure the performers, organisers and viewers of Paris Fringe have recognised....

Comedy Magic

REVIEW: El Diablo of the Cards, Ewerton Martins, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★☆

Mike Dorey

June 10, 2020December 30, 2021

I must say that when we at Binge Fringe discovered that the Paris Fringe was planning to stream some performances online I was pleasantly surprised...

Spoken Word Theatre

REVIEW: Etched Glass Decanter, Evening Crane Theatre, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★★

Jake Mace

June 8, 2020June 13, 2020

It is rare that something definitively thematically original and bold manages to make it's way into the mainstream. Etched Glass Decanter may not be in...

Comedy

REVIEW: Improbotics Online, Paris Fringe 2020 ★★★★☆

Jake Mace

June 7, 2020December 30, 2021

In events reminiscent of a mix between a Franz Kafka novel and an episode of Black Mirror written on an acid trip, Alex the Artificially...

News

The Fringe Festival Kicking the Pandemic with a Free All-Online Programme – Paris Fringe 2020

Jake Mace

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020

It's been a while, hasn't it? Here at Binge Fringe, we were all getting ready to start planning our coverage of Brighton Fringe 2020 and...

Comedy

REVIEW: Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang, Edinburgh Fringe 2019 ★★★★☆

Jasper Cresdee-Hyde

August 24, 2019December 30, 2021

After last year’s successful run of Cream Tea and Incest (back on at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with an all-female cast), Benjamin Alborough and The...

Theatre

REVIEW: Cicada 3301, Edinburgh Fringe 2019 ★★★★★

Jasper Cresdee-Hyde

August 24, 2019December 30, 2021

You are unlikely to see a show at the Edinburgh Fringe that's anything like Cambridge University's Cicada 3301. A thoroughly original, smart and razor-sharp script...

Comedy

REVIEW: 2Elfth Night, Edinburgh Fringe 2019 ★★★★☆

Jasper Cresdee-Hyde

August 16, 2019December 30, 2021

How many actors do you need to make a Shakespeare play? Two, as it turns out, along with a willing cast of audience participants. Comedic...