Voicebox: Edinburgh Fringe

Every year since 2014 we have been travelling up to the Scottish capital every August to review the largest arts festival in the world.
This is where all the content we've created over the years gets filed. This Voicebox contains reviews, interviews, opinion pieces and blogs. Enjoy!
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23 April 2021
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 registration to open on 5 May 2021
A statement has been released regarding the upcoming Fringe, which will take place this year from 6 - 30 August, after being cancelled last year.
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8 September 2020
Defying GraviTT
The fabulous TT is back for this unique virtual Edinburgh Fringe show and every second of her performance is packed to the brim with musical comedy. This show is both observational, fun and lighthearted.
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2 June 2020 – 30 June 2020
Part of the Grid - June Workshops
With the theatre industry on pause, Part of the Main are offering affordable Zoom workshops designed to provide artists with opportunities to train and create.
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5 December 2019 – 31 January 2020
Opportunity to bring new theatre to Edinburgh Fringe 2020
If you're involved in a young theatre ensemble and want to perform at Edinburgh Fringe 2020, check out this opportunity from the Pleasance.
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21 October 2019
Mythbusting: 5 myths about Edinburgh Fringe challenged
There is a lot of preconceived notions of what Edinburgh Fringe is and isn’t! I’m here to put some of those ideas to bed.
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13 September 2019
Interview with Glitch, member of the BAC Beatbox Academy
"Being raised in a very deprived, working-class estate, you’re led to believe that these things just don’t happen to people like us."
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13 September 2019
Interview with Wiz-RD, member of the BAC Beatbox Academy
An interview with Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster's Tyler aka Wiz-RD
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30 August 2019
Life. In Hong Kong
Director Tang Wai-kit, the first Hong Kong student of mime master Marcel Marceau, offers this year’s fringe distressing theatre that uses mime to explore trials and tribulations experienced by his compatriots
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29 August 2019
Henry Box Brown: A Musical Journey
The shining black musical that brings to this year's fringe the radical story of an 1850s Virginia slave who mails himself to freedom in a box
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23 August 2019
Sorry, Harriet Tubman
An effortlessly endearing stand-up about everything, from meeting Michelle Obama to struggling with cowgirl, that also manages to touch on what is wrong with black excellence
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23 August 2019
Pathetic Fallacy
An ever-changing dreamy performance on our ever-changing weather (and beliefs about weather)
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21 August 2019
OUT
OUT by Rachael Young is an extremely powerful physical meditation on the painful, and productive, relationship between blackness and queerness
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21 August 2019
Interview with Saskia Preston
"Most shows go unnoticed - be prepared for that or fight it with cash."
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20 August 2019
Shakespeare and Shrews: Emma Heron's take on Shakespeare’s most lovable, unlovable play
Interview with Emma Heron, artistic director of Mrs Pankhurst’s Players as we talk the darker side of Shakespeare and how best to improve female representation on stage
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16 August 2019
Voice's Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe 2019
After another intensive reviewing period at the largest arts festival in the world, the Voice team weigh in on which shows are awarded their Pick of the Fringe.
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14 August 2019
Interview with Alex Gwyther
"I don’t look through newspapers and decide to write something. If an idea hits me like a ten ton of bricks and I need to drop everything to tell this story then I know it’s something important."
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14 August 2019
Interview with Jennifer Irons, writer and performer of Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)
"Growing up in an isolated mining community there wasn’t much to see in terms of arts. Every Christmas the Nutcracker would be on CBC television and Mikail Baryshnikov was (still is) INCREDIBLE. Watch that man move. He’s unreal."
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