We Are Each Other review – strangers become friends in interactive comedy

Summerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over actionWhat did we miss most during the pandemic: the entertainment or the audiences? We still had box sets and…

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We Are Each Other review – strangers become friends in interactive comedy

Summerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over actionWhat did we miss most during the pandemic: the entertainment or the audiences? We still had box sets and…

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Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play

Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny GirlsIn the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later t…

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Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play

Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny GirlsIn the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later t…

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Mark Thomas: Seriously Annoying review – heartfelt angry protest against proposed new law

Arcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill“Behaviour that causes the public or a section of the public to suffer serious annoya…

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Mark Thomas: Seriously Annoying review – heartfelt angry protest against proposed new law

Arcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill“Behaviour that causes the public or a section of the public to suffer serious annoya…

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Still game: Edinburgh’s 2021 fringe is a return to the festival’s roots

This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…

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Still game: Edinburgh’s 2021 fringe is a return to the festival’s roots

This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…

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Edinburgh festival kicks off – in pictures

Photographer Murdo MacLeod has been photographing rehearsals and preparations for this year’s much-reduced programme of the Edinburgh festival, which opened on Saturday Continue reading…

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Edinburgh Fringe returns with mix of in-person and online shows

Festival is part of world’s largest annual arts season which has been forced to curtail events due to CovidThe Edinburgh festival Fringe returns this weekend with a hybrid programme of nearly 800 in-person and online shows after its cancellation last y…

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