How to Save the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe.
The 2021 Edinburgh Fringe can and should go ahead. It can take place regardless of how prevalent COVID-19 still is …
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Locked Down in Edinburgh (4).
Late at night, on an evening a little way into August, I had left my apartment to take the bins …
Tychy @ the Fringe 2018 Artwork.
Tychy‘s annual exploration of student theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe begins on August 1. I will have to live with …
Apocalypse of the Fringe.
It had been a long day and we were half way through another, rather undistinguished production of Hamlet, when I …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Secret Window, Secret Garden and Thugz N Tearz.
One’s final hours at the Fringe are awash with grief and guilt at all of the plays that have been …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Body of Water.
Stuart Pursell and Made from Scratch‘s first full-length play “Body of Water,” which has just finished a run at the …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Lullabies of Broadmoor’s Wilderness.
[Tychy has reviewed the first two plays in the “Lullabies of Broadmoor” quartet here and here.] When Tychy witlessly quipped …
Tychy@ the Fringe: First Light.
Murray Watts‘ “First Light,” which is presently playing at Hawke and Hunter, ostensibly spends a night with the chaplain of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Timothy.
Michael Milne and David K Barnes’ “Timothy” is, to put it bluntly, a play about David Cameron. Annette (Olivia Holland-Rose) …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Nourish.
When hunger-striking WSPU activists described forced feeding as an “outrage,” they were specifically likening this ordeal to rape. Forced feeding …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Time for the Good Looking Boy.
[The following contains mild spoilers.] Michael Wicherek’s “Time for the Good Looking Boy,” which is currently playing in the Pleasance …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Haverfordwest.
Tychy occasionally tutors Highers students, they are invariably from rich families, and it is often unnerving to be exposed to …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Fall of the House of Usher.
Steven Berkoff‘s stab at adapting Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” for the stage has been disinterred from …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Happiness.
Murray Watts’ play “Happiness,” which is presently established at Hawke and Hunter, reaches for a pair of comfy old stereotypes …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Mr Kolpert.
[The following contains mild spoilers.] Forget everything that you have been told about David Gieselmann’s “Mr Kolpert.” The New Symposium, …
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