The Fringe in Review Podcast

In a special episode, Tess Gill talks about a new revival of the full version of Adrian Bunting's Kemble's Riot. Deirdre Daly talks about Kaleidoscope's youth theatre production of Chaos. Catie Ridewood discusses feminist That Witch Helen and Bibi Cuceiro talks about solo theatre piece 1,2,3. sh*t. that's my OCD. Brighton Fringe's Rhiannon Lingwood talks fringe and what is on offer participants, a...

In another special edition, we are at Invasion '24 at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City. Four solo shows from the UK are hosted by Central Standard Theatre between February 26 and 3 March 2024. Paul Levy briefly explores his own show The Debrief before deep diving into Ross Gurney Randall's much acclaimed An Audience with Henry VIII. Then Robert Cohen discusses the award-winning The Tri...

In this special edition we focus on Franz Kafka, and deep dive into the work of Natasha higton and her creative team who are bringing installation theatre piece The Writer's Mark to Fabrika in Brighton UK. http://www thewritersmark.co.uk

A catch up with actor, writer, producer, director and now body double, David Calvitto. Alex Bird, Co-Director of Tortoise in a Nut Shell talks with Jo Tomalin about their visual theatre charity and how they use research to create shows and their latest piece Concerned Others. Neil Frost co-director of theatre company Mad Etiquette talks with Jo Tomalin about Clown and his show The Door playing at...

in this bumper episode at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, we are in conversation with Zoe Brownstone and Dom McGovern on their standup two halfer, Tied for Second; Character comedian Abby Vicky-Russell on Gush, Stephen Cronin discusses Durham Fringe; Leif Oleson-Cormack on comedy show The Disney Delusion. Finola Cronin and Megan Kennedy talk with Jo Tomalin about developing their latest production for...

In conversation with actor Larry Mitchell and co-producer David Calvitto (with deft help from Marshall Cordell about 17 Minutes by Scott Organ (directed by Seth Barrish. Writer Nick Hennigan from Maverick Theatre Company talks about The Birth of Frankenstein (written by Robert Lloyd George). Performer Monia Baldini and Producer Giusi di Gesaro discuss interactive theatre piece, Be My Guest. We als...

In this episode we meet Terence Harnett who returns to the Fringe with 1 Ball Show: 1 Lung Less. Terence talks about cancer, comedy and how he creates his work at the Fringe. Charlie Merriman's WONDER DRUG: A Comedy About Cystic Fibrosis is a disability-led show from Charlie Merriman. The show was a big hit at the VAULTS Festival in London. Opera singer and disability-led artist Tamara Stein round...

In this first episode at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Jo Tomalin talks to Gillian Lacey-Solymar about writing her first Edinburgh Fringe show, IrrePRESSible: The Musical. Also How Experiences of Writing and Performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Drives the Next Steps for Matthew Roberts. Jo finds out. Paul Levy bumps into Bertie Hodd about their new Edfringe solo show Dad Jokes. He also hears about Nico...

Brighton Fringe 2023 enters its final week. Comedian Paul Connell talks about and his solo show Ace in the Hole. Northern Edge Theatre Company writer and director Sam Milnes, and actor Ben Burgin talk about new play Victor, Vi and the Volvo. And where next for Brighton Fringe?

Cabaret performer Nigel Osner on his show Still Ticking at The Actors at Brighton Fringe, Pericles Theatre Company on The Seagull and the Cat at the Rotunda, and we catch up with Biscuit Barrel Comedy and talk 69 sketches in an hour. Oh, and Fringereview's Paul Levy is grumping at Brighton Fringe.

more theatre and arts makers talk about their work at Brighton Fringe 2023. We meet the cast of blood wedding from Bhasvic College. Ben Kay talks about Dizney in Drag at Brighton Spiegeltent. And Sam Rush introduces us to the unique mobile cinema known as Audrey.

In this episode at Brighton Fringe 2023: Eddie Summers, Rosalie Minnitt and Ralf Wetzel. Magic, solo theatre, clown and mask!

In this special edition that kicks off our new season we explore an initiative called Age is a Stage which is really part of third age education in the field of the Arts. Showcasing Beyond the Nose we talk to the director and one of the performers of this initiative.

In this episode during the final week at Edfringe 2022, we hear more voices at the Fringe with Jenson Parker-Stone Producer of Game Night at Greenside talking about this late evening piece of dark comedy theatre. Then we have Katie's Tales as described by Sofia de Sanctis (production assistent). Next up is spoken word show Taste of Sweat and Sand discussed by Russ Pollard - writer and performer. M...

In this episode we create space to hear a few of the women at the fringe bringing work to the Edinburgh Fringe. Phoebe Averdieck discusses her new theatre piece Hard Shoulder. Joan Kane from Ego Actus explores some very personal solo theatre, Almost 13. Amanda Ladd is the perfomer in The Azure Sky in Oz, Yellow and Special in the Free Fringe. She talks about the three pieces written by William Lea...

Daniel Wishes and Seri Yanai talk about creating literally hundreds of puppets for Space Hippo. Achim Wieland and Marios Ioannou reveal the creative process behind the controversial theatre piece Tea Ceremony. C. Neil Parsons and Greg Jukes take us through the musical success that is Fruit Flies Like a Banana.  Peter Vickers created solo show ZAV transposed from his own personal journey. With just...

In this special episode at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, we take a deeper dive into the "big four" in the context of an arts festival potentially collapsing under its own weight. Yet still thr fires of artisic passion and creativity burn admidst the fringe deluge. Oh yes, and then there was Covid and a dawning realisation that current models are no longer sustainable. The fringe P.T Barnum and legend...

In a full-to bursting second podcast at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, Paul Levy ponders the 'great return' and then chata with James Johnson and Sharon Em on Cynically Dead, comedian, Henry Churniavski on With all Jew respect, solo performer Larry Tish on his autobiographical piece Trouble on Six, Katie Overstall on Nellie Bligh, magician The Great Baldini, Philip Stokes on Jesus, Mary, Mother and...

In our first episode based up at Edinburgh Fringe 2022, FringeReview's Jo Tomalin talks about physical theatre, the creators and cast of A Space Mystery: A Mystery in Space share their creative approach, Chris Cresswell lifts the lid on teaching clown and performance skills to the elderly, Will Jackson, at the Fringe with Conferti and interactive show Fashion Spies, discussses interactive theatre...

Reflections at the Brighton Spiegeltent, a visit to the Rotunda and a chat with its venue co-creator - actor Ross Erikson, rounding off with Joe Angella in conversation with comedian Donal Vaughan.

Guest interviewer Hattie Snooks talks to Cerys Evans about A Trans Fairytale while Aidan Sadler talks Bosco abd Tropicana - a queer comedy cabaret rooted in his own story. Actor Philip Willett tells us about the play Crunch, and we asli hear from Brighton Fringe's own Cameron Brown about the Fringe hub. And what is to be done about the Arts in Brighton and Hove? Two important and timely events at...

Joe Angella talks to Heather Alexander, Sam Chittenden and Sophie Methuen-Turner about thier shows at this year's Brighton Fringe. 

Out and about at Brighton Fringe as we head into week 2. A brief look at shows at the Brighton Spiegeltent, a chat with Simon David about his show White Gay, followed by a conversation with Sarah Chiappi, director of the new Shackleton The Musical, not forgetting a deep dive over a cuppa into the co-writing world of Joseph Nixon and Brian Mitchell. A song from Clean the Musical at Fringe City and...

It is still the first week at Brighton Fringe 2022. Reflections on arts and venue affordability and the role of Fringe in personal development. We chat to theatre makers and performers; Actor Amy Kidd and producer Sarah Mann, writer Ross Scarfield, singer (and a lot more besides) Seth Morgan,, Luke Tudball and Heather Bagnall offering their children show recommendations, and comedian Jack Harris.

On the first day of Brighton Fringe 2022, we explore curiosity, attend the Sweet Venues launch and chat with a range of performance, from poetry to cabaret to improvisation and comedy. We take a look at the paper fringe programme and reflect on the continual emergence of the Arts from the pandemic. Fringe is back again.