The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest performing arts festival. They are thousands of shows to watch, and less than a month to see them all in, so you have to be selective. We paged through the programme looking for something to amuse STARBURST readers who may happen to be in Edinburgh this August.
Starship Improvise – Edinburgh Fringe
Talent from Mischief Theatre and The Showstoppers team up to present an hour’s worth of improvised science fiction silliness. Science fiction is such a rich genre we’re sort of surprised it’s not more common, but this is a show we are very excited to go and see.
The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Dungeons and Dragons is becoming the next new thing when it comes to on-stage improv. It’s cheap to do; throw in some talent, rules and an audience; who needs a script when you have decades of D&D modules to fall back on and the performers invent their own lines. This show adds a technological element which we’re keen to see also.
Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch
Wicked, but with Ursula from A Little Mermaid? From the creative minds of queer comedy collective Fat Rascal? Sounds like a riot to us. Clearly one of those show that is still enjoying ongoing development, so go see this and claim you got to see it first.
Fanboy
Stage plays in which a single mid-30s year old man pines for their childhood is pretty much route one when it comes to ‘geek culture inspired’ shows. However Fanboy’s performer, Joe Sellman, is as phenomenal talent, so if anyone can make this old ground seem new, it’s Joe.
Can comedian and actor Brendan Murphy recount the entire seven seasons of Buffy, from the perspective of Spike? Whilst dressed and performing as Spike? This is possibly the highest stakes so we’ll see at the fringe, so get your holy water ready.
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