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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"The only person who can get you from off stage to on stage and to open your mouth is you" There are still tickets to see Elf Lyons' show SWAN at the #Adelaide Fringe – read our interview with the UK clown-comic now festmag.com/2026/02/20/i... #AdlFringe
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Interview: Elf Lyons
UK clown-comic Elf Lyons on finding new meaning in her Swan Lake adaptation after almost a decade
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's the last week of the Adelaide Fringe, and if you're looking for family-friendly fun, plenty of our recs for Kids shows are running through the weekend 🤩 festmag.com/2026/02/17/a...
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Kids
Our pick of the best and most anticipated Fringe shows for the whole family
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you're looking for some spectacular shows for the last weekend of the #Adelaide Fringe, there's plenty to see in our circus highlights ✨ festmag.com/2026/02/11/a... #AdlFringe
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Circus
Comedy, music, storytelling… There’s more to these circus shows than gravity-defying stunts
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
There's still a chance to see some of our top music picks this #AdlFringe – read our round-up for details on Gigi McFarlane and Bag Raiders!
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Music
From home-grown dance royalty to stars from overseas, a handful of music picks from across the Fringe
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"The erotic, the playful, that’s at the root of human connection" Read our interview with legendary cabaret performer Bernie Dieter, and catch Club Kabarett this #AdlFringe
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Interview: Bernie Dieter
After 7 years away, cabaret firebrand Bernie Dieter talks to Xuanlin Tham about why her Weimar-era inspired Club Kabarett is needed now more than ever
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Nuns have done incredible things throughout history that are quite exciting and shocking" Mixing religion, sexuality and pop culture, three shows at this year’s Adelaide Fringe take on the big question: can we mix church and pleasure?
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Interview: Bad Habits
Mixing religion, sexuality and pop culture, three shows at this year’s Adelaide Fringe take on the big question: can we mix church and pleasure? Their respective performers, Lauren Hance, Libby O’…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
We interview Daniel Muggleton about #Adelaide, dodgy audiences and life as a cult comic festmag.com/2026/02/22/i... #AdlFringe
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Interview: Daniel Muggleton
We catch up with the man in red about Adelaide, dodgy audiences and life as a cult comic
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"Australian music didn’t happen overnight, it was built, show by show, in rooms like this" Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets honors Adelaide's music venues in his #AdlFringe show – read our interview festmag.com/2026/02/27/d... #Adelaide
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Dave Gleeson: The Adelaide Music Venues that Made Me
Ahead of his Adelaide Fringe show Long Way to the Top, The Screaming Jets singer highlights some legacy venues that have shaped the city’s music scene
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"The CBD: Cyclists, Bankers, Dickheads – I proudly identify as all of the above" Kathy Maniura brings The Cycling Man to #AdlFringe festmag.com/2026/02/27/t... #Adelaide
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The Cycling Man’s Guide to Cycling in Adelaide
Kathy Maniura’s deeply flawed, lycra-clad Cycling Man takes us around Adelaide on a bike
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I think live performance should always have a bit of that old-fashioned glamour" Clown-comedian Ozzy Algar brings SPEED QUEEN to the Adelaide Fringe – read our interview festmag.com/2026/02/25/i... #Adelaide #AdelaideFringe
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Interview: Ozzy Algar
We chat to clown-comedian Ozzy Algar about their gossiping alter ego Pet, owner of the Isle of Wight’s last surviving laundromat
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Exceptional dance shows in Adelaide run the gamut from home-grown to international talent festmag.com/2026/02/19/a... #AdlFringe
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Adelaide 2026 Top Picks: Dance
Exceptional dance shows in Adelaide run the gamut from home-grown to international talent
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Madam Martha, Bernie Dieter and Trash York are just some of the stars bringing cabaret to this year's #AdlFringe
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Cabaret
Cabaret highlights, from unchained hedonism to Moulin Rouge glamour and circus flair…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Don't miss these thrilling theatre performances coming to this year's Adelaide Fringe – read our top picks now festmag.com/2026/02/12/a... #AdlFringe
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Theatre & Physical Theatre
From moving real-life stories to chaotic interactive shows, our top picks for theatre & physical theatre at the Fringe
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Perhaps the difference between humans and animals is not whether we are domesticated, but whether we believe this domestication is voluntary" Taiwanese theatre troupe Peng Nei Ren discuss bringing Animal Farm adaptation RULES to the #AdelaideFringe
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Interview: Animal Farm
Taiwanese theatre troupe Peng Nei Ren answer Xuanlin Tham’s questions on reimagining Orwell’s classic anti-authoritarian tale
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"We’re not hiding behind extravagant costumes, makeup, any of that stuff. We’re trying to be raw and honest." Jesse Scott and Lachlan McAulay step onstage as themselves in You & I, Casus Creations’ most intimate performance yet festmag.com/2026/02/15/i... #AdlFringe
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Interview: You and I
Jesse Scott and Lachlan McAulay step onstage as themselves in You & I, Casus Creations’ most intimate performance yet
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
From home-grown dance royalty to stars from overseas, here's our top picks from music acts across the #AdlFringe
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Music
From home-grown dance royalty to stars from overseas, a handful of music picks from across the Fringe
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Nine Adelaide College of the Arts alumni explore objects as carriers of memory and meaning RELICS is on display now as part of #AdlFringe – read our interview with curator Shani Engelbrecht festmag.com/2026/02/14/i...
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Interview: RELICS
Nine Adelaide College of the Arts alumni explore objects as carriers of memory and meaning in visual exhibition RELICS, curated by Shani Engelbrecht
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“I like the audience to feel like they have an impact on the performance. But they will never win." – @nonstoptom.bsky.social Taskmaster co-hosts Tom Gleeson and Tom Cashman talk to us about bringing their respective stand-up hours to the #AdelaideFringe
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Interview: Tom Gleeson & Tom Cashman
Taskmaster co-hosts Tom Gleeson and Tom Cashman talk to us ahead of their respective stand-up hours
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
From John-Luke Roberts to Zoë Coombs Marr, we shout out our top comedy acts coming to this year's Adelaide Fringe ✨ festmag.com/2026/02/16/a... #AdelaideFringe
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Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Comedy
Eight unmissable comedy shows, from charming childhood tales to grasps for meaning…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Performers bend into startling shapes, lift themselves precariously high above the stage, and enact breathtaking stunts" Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words) – ★★★★ #EdFringe review by @alekiagill.bsky.social
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Review: Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words)
A showcase of true dedication and skill…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
JEEZUS! is a fun and filthy musical theatre show about growing up queer in Latin America – and there's still a chance to catch the ★★★★ #EdFringe show this weekend
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Review: JEEZUS!
Fun and filthy musical theatre from Latin America
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"An hour of acerbic, self-deprecating and satirical jokes" ★★★★ #EdFringe comedy review: GIANMARCO SORESI – read @louiscammell.bsky.social's review and catch @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social's last available tickets festmag.com/2025/08/19/r...
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Review: Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour
Joke-a-minute stand-up expertly skirts the line
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Light-hearted, citrus coloured zealotry of the non-sectarian kind ★★★★ #EdFringe comedy review: ORANGE CRUSH by @ivograham.bsky.social – read @jayirichardson.bsky.social's review now
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Review: Ivo Graham: Orange Crush
Light-hearted, citrus coloured zealotry of the non-sectarian kind
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Pussy Riot are an antidote – demonstrating tonight what it means to call out complicity" RIOT DAYS is at Summerhall this #EdFringe – @anita-bh.bsky.social gives ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to the Russian protest art collective's show festmag.com/2025/08/17/r... @pussyriot.bsky.social
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Review: Pussy Riot: Riot Days
Raw, unapologetic and defiant show from the Russian protest art collective…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Something about grunge [...] always felt queer. It felt like I could access something in it that I couldn’t elsewhere." #EdFringe show NO APOLOGIES by @notyetarobot.bsky.social explores discourse around Kurt Cobain’s gender identity festmag.com/2025/08/17/i... [Interview: @anita-bh.bsky.social]
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Interview: Emma Frankland
Cover story: In No Apologies, Emma Frankland delves deep into the long-running internet discourse around Kurt Cobain’s gender identity. The writer-performer speaks to Arusa Qureshi about the…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"From the moment he stomped onto the world stage, he changed everything" Two #EdFringe shows – Monstering the Rocketman and Your Song – pay homage to the iconic Elton John festmag.com/2025/08/16/i... [Interview: @jayirichardson.bsky.social]
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Interview: Jess Robinson and Henry Naylor on Elton John
Jess Robinson and Henry Naylor pay homage to the icon that is Elton John at this year’s Fringe…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"There are ways in which the culture around you threatens you and denies certain stories that are foundational; threatens your safety if you express them" Actor/activist @khalidabdalla.bsky.social on #EdFringe show NOWHERE, festmag.com/2025/08/16/i... Interview: @anita-bh.bsky.social
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Interview: Khalid Abdalla
Actor and activist Khalid Abdalla discusses his intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"Secrets and denials, which are shared with us as if we were best friends at a sleepover, speak to a self-inflicted damage caused by running away" TELL ME WHERE HOME IS (I'M STARTING TO FORGET): ★★★★ #EdFringe theatre review by @alekiagill.bsky.social
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Review: Tell Me Where Home Is (I’m Starting to Forget)
Slick, self exposing one-person show
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"Places everyone in the auditorium at the heart of the show’s narrative" ★★★★ for THANKS FOR BEING HERE, an #EdFringe theatre piece by collective @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social
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Review: Thanks for Being Here
Ontroerend Goed’s latest show places emphasis on the camaraderie of collective experience…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"Under harsh white fluorescent light, and sonically textured by ambient industrial drips, rattles, and mechanical groans, Isaiah Wilson’s Score is an eviscerating depiction of alienated labour" ★★★★ #EdFringe review: SCORE
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Review: Score
Rich and deeply intelligent confrontation with technologies of control…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"Barry Ferns’ all or nothing, stunt comedy has made him a quixotic, Fringe semi-legend" MY SEVEN YEARS AS LIONEL RICHIE by @barryferns.bsky.social gets ★★★★ from us – see it this #EdFringe
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Review: Barry Ferns: My Seven Years as Lionel Richie
Scrappy, upstart tale from the Fringe semi-legend…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"You can do Faustus like the Royal Shakespeare Company, but if you put your mindset back 400 years, the play is scandalous" Two plays, one at the #EdFringe and one at the EIF, take on Marlowe’s Faustus, but in contrasting and confronting ways
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Interview: Basil Jones and Caden Scott on Faustus
Two plays, one at the Fringe and one at the EIF, take on Marlowe’s tragic Faustus, but in contrasting and confronting ways…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"He ricochets around his transparent cage with ferocity and uses white markers on the clear wall facing the audience to lucidly sketch out the complex tax scheme" ★★★★ #EdFringe REVIEW: The Insider
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Review: The Insider
Real-life tale of corporate tax fraud is an unlikely thriller
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"From writing erotica online since the age of 14 to altercations with medical professionals, she’s laying it all out there" HOW TO BE A BADDIE will deliver the lessons you need – check out our ★★★★ review of Urooj Ashfaq's #EdFringe hour
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Review: Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie
A riotously funny and upbeat insight into deviancy, fuelled by pettiness
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"She plays an entitled manchild who’s worryingly over-attached to one object – until he falls off it." ★★★★ for KATHY MANIURA: THE CYCLING MAN, at @ThePleasance this #EdFringe 🚲
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Review: Kathy Maniura: The Cycling Man
Ingenious send-up of bike obsessives is a cracking ride
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"Magicians should only wear suits if they’re in court. Which they should be. For this poster design" Comedian/bookseller BEN POPE went viral for sharing the book cover tropes that need to end. We asked him to give #EdFringe posters the same treatment
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Ben Pope’s Guide to the 5 Fringe Posters He Never Wants to See Again
The comedian and bookseller went viral for sharing the book cover tropes that need to end. We asked him to give Fringe posters the same treatment
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clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A big thrill to talk music and synaesthesia and mentoring with electronic artist @kaitlynaurelia.bsky.social for the cover of @festmag.bsky.social festmag.com/2025/08/13/i... She will be performing at Edinburgh International Festival, Sat 16 Aug 10pm
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"Rarely can a show scale such dizzying heights of silliness before plunging to such depths of existential despair" WILD THING! features daft antics that give way to a bitter eulogy of extinct species festmag.com/2025/08/10/r... #EdFringe
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Review: Wild Thing!
Wonderfully daft antics give way to bitter eulogy of extinct species
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"Able to take some dark topics, and somehow make them fit into a comedy show – with only a few gasps from audience members" Seaton Smith brings ★★★★ room-reading to TRAUMA BONDING this #EdFringe
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Review: Seaton Smith: Trauma Bonding
Expert room-reading gets huge laughs from tough topics
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"Written to draw parallels to the Yorkshire Ripper and the ongoing onus on women to protect themselves from men 50 years on" MANAGED APPROACH is a ★★★★★ #EdFringe drama based on the UK’s first legalised red-light district
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Review: Managed Approach
Moving and original drama based on the UK’s first legalised red-light district
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"PC Nicky McCreadie defiantly reflects on her journey, slowly coming face-to-face with a past she has tried to forget." @islacowan.bsky.social's ALRIGHT SUNSHINE gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ from us – catch it at @pleasance.co.uk this #EdFringe festmag.com/2025/08/10/r...
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Review: Alright Sunshine
Isla Cowan tackles big topics with a light touch and realistic characters for a hauntingly powerful piece of writing
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"Wanders around questions of luck, destiny, love and death" Up! the all-ages #EdFringe show by @visiblefictions.bsky.social, follows one character blessed with luck and another cursed with misfortune – read our ★★★★ review
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Review: Up! by Visible Fictions
All-ages show does a lot with a little
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We sent the Super Power Agency out into the festivals with a group of newly-trained teen reviewers to suss out the best shows for young people this #EdFringe
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Young Critics at the Fringe
We sent the Super Power Agency out into the festivals with a group of newly-trained teen reviewers to suss out the best shows for young people this Fringe…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"Tuck tackles it all, fear and delight, with glorious gusto" Thom Tuck – @turlygod.bsky.social – returns his clown SCARAMOUCHE JONES to the #EdFringe – read @sihawkins.bsky.social's ★★★★ review
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Review: Scaramouche Jones
Fringe veteran Thom Tuck revives clown in Justin Butcher’s 20-year-old play
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A rich galaxy of complicated emotions in FLOAT, the debut #EdFringe show of Indra Wilson, produced by @fbombtheatre.bsky.social – Read the ★★★★ review 🌠 festmag.com/2025/08/11/r... @gildedballoon.bsky.social
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Review: Float
A rich galaxy of complicated emotions in this debut solo show…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"Debut playwright Ellie Keel (@ekpshows.bsky.social) effectively paces the action to generate suspense" In SKYE (★★★★), a summer holiday turns sinister, when Annie and her siblings see their late father on the eponymous island – read our full review festmag.com/2025/08/07/r... #EdFringe
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Review: SKYE: A Thriller
Sophisticated suspense story from debut playwright Ellie Keel
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"Unique for its reverential-yet-queer lens" Read the ★★★★ review for BIG NATURALS, Chloe Petts' take on 90s/00s lad culture which she's taken to @pleasance.co.uk this #EdFringe
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Review: Chloe Petts: Big Naturals
Big laughs come naturally in loving look back at lad culture’s problematic zenith
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"A dynamic satire of the ever-looming, ever-changing face of colonial rule" KANPUR 1857 by Niall Moorjani gets ★★★★ – see it at @pleasance.co.uk this #EdFringe
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Review: Kanpur: 1857
Effortless and enchanting storytelling from Niall Moorjani…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"I’m pleased to have contributed to the modern history of the Fringe [...] it’s a great thing, but it’s in danger." Making multiple appearances at the #EdFringe and @edbookfest.bsky.social this year, @ivograham.bsky.social talks through his busy schedule
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Interview: Ivo Graham
Making multiple appearances at the Fringe and Book Festival this year, Ivo Graham talks through his busy schedule…
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festmag.bsky.social @festmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"Hospital drama, relatable relationship angst, even some meta material for the arms-folded head-nodders." @heidiregan.bsky.social's well-crafted stand-up hour JEKYLL AND HEIDI gets ★★★★ from @sihawkins.bsky.social festmag.com/2025/08/08/r... #EdFringe
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Review: Heidi Regan: Jekyll and Heidi
Beautifully crafted, naturally delivered hour of low-key standup
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