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Tychy @ the Fringe 2018 Artwork.

July 10, 2018

Tychy‘s annual exploration of student theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe begins on August 1. I will have to live with …

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Apocalypse of the Fringe.

August 30, 2011

It had been a long day and we were half way through another, rather undistinguished production of Hamlet, when I …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Secret Window, Secret Garden and Thugz N Tearz.

August 30, 2011

One’s final hours at the Fringe are awash with grief and guilt at all of the plays that have been …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Body of Water.

August 29, 2011

Stuart Pursell and Made from Scratch‘s first full-length play “Body of Water,” which has just finished a run at the …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Lullabies of Broadmoor’s Wilderness.

August 29, 2011

[Tychy has reviewed the first two plays in the “Lullabies of Broadmoor” quartet here and here.] When Tychy witlessly quipped …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: First Light.

August 26, 2011

Murray Watts‘ “First Light,” which is presently playing at Hawke and Hunter, ostensibly spends a night with the chaplain of …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Timothy.

August 26, 2011

Michael Milne and David K Barnes’ “Timothy” is, to put it bluntly, a play about David Cameron. Annette (Olivia Holland-Rose) …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Nourish.

August 26, 2011

When hunger-striking WSPU activists described forced feeding as an “outrage,” they were specifically likening this ordeal to rape. Forced feeding …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Time for the Good Looking Boy.

August 26, 2011

[The following contains mild spoilers.] Michael Wicherek’s “Time for the Good Looking Boy,” which is currently playing in the Pleasance …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Haverfordwest.

August 25, 2011

Tychy occasionally tutors Highers students, they are invariably from rich families, and it is often unnerving to be exposed to …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: The Fall of the House of Usher.

August 24, 2011

Steven Berkoff‘s stab at adapting Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” for the stage has been disinterred from …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Happiness.

August 24, 2011

Murray Watts’ play “Happiness,” which is presently established at Hawke and Hunter, reaches for a pair of comfy old stereotypes …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Mr Kolpert.

August 23, 2011

[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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Tychy@ the Fringe: The Mourning Party and One Fine Day.

August 22, 2011

Tychy saw two plays this afternoon, but unfortunately length was the sticking point with both of them. Anna Forsyth’s “The …

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Tychy@ the Festival (sic): The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan.

August 21, 2011

Tonight Tychy dispenses with the foreplay and finally gets stuck into Beijing. When I visited the capital in 2010, I …

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