There is an inevitability about a disaster movie: the audience know it will happen, and frequently at least one of the characters knows it will happen, though most

It’s not a Fringe without at least one Dracula, a story whose first theatrical production was penned by author Bram Stoker himself, the sole performance of which took

With the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle out of copyright, the approval of the estate of the esteemed Edinburgh born author is no longer required in order

In 1961 Yuri gazes up at the ocean of stars above the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; in some contemporary moment, a young refugee, Sam, stands on the shore

The contrast between the Pleasance Courtyard at the height of the Fringe and the interior of Pleasance One could not be more defined; outside there are crowds, conversation

“If these walls could talk… they wouldn’t need to put on plays.” So says the caretaker at the historic Vaudeville Theatre, an establishment with over a hundred years

“George Vere has been working on The Starship Osiris on and off for five years,” according to the programme, a sheet of folded A5 paper, roughly torn on

Life is often seen to be a joke, and how one is remembered after death is the biggest joke of all. Born near Berlin in 1879, Friedrich Gustav

Hardened Fringers, brothers Ed and Tommy of the good ship Jollyboat have enthusiasm, talent, one guitar between the two of them, and balloon swords, taking to the stage

With pulsing electronic beats across a hall illuminated by their shifting projected logo, the grotesque reprobates of Kill the Beast are back in town, pitchfork held aloft, as