Post your Festival/Fringe recommendations!

Edinburghlass_2

Any shows you particularly liked, or any you would avoid?

Can you post, location, what type of show, time and cost of tickets.

This should help our visitors to Edinburgh.

minniemarie

I'm on a roll this year! I've seen 7 shows already unfortunately not all that I would recommend to people:rolleyes:

However I would highly advise going to see:
Women Fully Clothed 6pm (very funny Canadian comics)
Mutton 4.15pm (and you get a free drink and nibbles)
Deborah Frances- White, How to get almost anyone to sleep with you. 2.45pm (sums it up really)

All are on at the Guilded Balloon in Bristo Square tickets between £8-10-£12, all comedies. :T

maggiesoup

We saw him at Bristo Square couple nights ago. Given a 5* rating in The Scotsman and on the Fringe review web page but it was dire. OK its advertised as being "offensive" but quite frankly this is just one Australian guy on an hour's rant. Counted on one hand how many times I genuinely laughed. It seems that "comedians" now just rely on screaming, ranting, effing and blinding and offending as many people in the audience as possible in the name of "comedy". Don't get me wrong, I'm not easily offended, in fact our home grown Jerry Sadowitch was very funny (including the f*** and c****s) no, this is just a rubbish show - and at £24 for a pr of tickets what a rip off. Think I may just look out for FREEBIES!

loadsacash

I went to see Rolling with laughter in Bristo Square on Sunday.

I took my husband and we both enjoyed it.

It is a one woman show, starting Natasha Wood who tells you her life storey.

She was born with a spinal Atrophy and is wheelchair bound, however it is a funny show and Natasha is a very determind lady who is inspiring and funny.

I would recomend it!

pokey128

Hi All
If you are coming to Edinburgh for the Fringe this year you simply have to go and see Eurobeat - i haven't laughed so much in my life!! It's basically the whole Eurovision song contest with 10 countries and brilliant presenters (including a video from Terry Wogan!)
As bad as it may sound - even if you don't like Eurovision I can't imagine anyone not enjoying this.
Also, Traces (5 guys from Cirque de Soleil) I got free tickets for this from the Scotsman and was so impressed by their show - some of the best acrobatics i have ever seen!!

dalliance

Sarah Kendall's a very good Australian stand-up who's doing a performance with two others this year about 'My very first kidnapping'. Highly recommended.

I'd also go and see Ian Stone and Adam Hills. Very funny.

happyshopper

To the person who saw Brendon Burns - what is the big 'twist' in his set that none of the reviews reveal? Or is that like asking for what happens at the end of Harry Potter?

cheers,

hs

maggiesoup

OK I guess I don't feel bad giving the game away as its the last night I think, he'll have made a fortune as it seemsto have been a sell out, plus the fact that he's had fantastic reviews throughout his run (although still at a loss to understand why, unless possibly dozens of other shows have been dire in comparison).

The twist is that he picks on an asian woman (and her white "brother") throughout the show leaving the audience feeling extremely uncomfortable for this poor lady. He eventually drags her up on stage at which time you want to shout "ok enough is enough" then the lights go down, loud asian music fills the room and when the lights go up again she is dancing along with all the other "actors" as it transpires she was all part of the show after all. Its a tense moment but, I stand by my earlier comment, this constant rant about muslims, gays, lesbians, the government etc. etc. just has to be funnier or it does't "stand up" for us, he just sounded like any aggressive guy in a pub who's too opinionated. Hey, but what do I know!