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Windblown review – haunting elegy for a felled 200-year-old natural wonder

silverguide.site – An exquisite mix of song, poetry and spoken word, Karine Polwart’s show about the Royal Botanic Garden’s iconic palm tree stands tall…
Windblown review – haunting elegy for a felled 200-year-old natural wonder
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Choir review – sweet harmonies and slapstick in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s musical heartwarmer

silverguide.site – A stressed out community choir rehearse pop hits ahead of a TV appearance in this uncharacteristically feelgood comedy from the usually hard-hitting Bhatti…
Choir review – sweet harmonies and slapstick in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s musical heartwarmer
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Lily Phillips: Crying review – laughing through the toxic positivity around childbirth

silverguide.site – Amusing vignettes about arrogant consultants and undignified poos keep things light as Phillips documents a harrowing hospital experience…
Lily Phillips: Crying review – laughing through the toxic positivity around childbirth
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Red Like Fruit review – this shocking tale of sexual violence is a puzzle

silverguide.site – In Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man…
Red Like Fruit review – this shocking tale of sexual violence is a puzzle
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Ordinary Decent Criminal review – Mark Thomas powers through tense prison drama

silverguide.site – Thomas jumps adeptly from terrorist to drug lord in writer Ed Edwards’s gripping and subtle one-man show…
Ordinary Decent Criminal review – Mark Thomas powers through tense prison drama
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Niusia review – hard family history lessons and taboo-busting humour

silverguide.site – Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor…
Niusia review – hard family history lessons and taboo-busting humour
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Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People review – ‘best joke of the fringe’ winner serves up silliness

silverguide.site – The character comic returns with another daft set of surreal characters and sharp one-liners – this time stuck in an open-all-hours cafe…
Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People review – ‘best joke of the fringe’ winner serves up silliness
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Edinburgh fringe with the family: five shows for kids

silverguide.site – A lively, wriggly tube creature, mesmerising birds for babies and a joyful take on Joyce’s Ulysses will delight young audiences at this year’s festival…
Edinburgh fringe with the family: five shows for kids
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Dance People review – join Edinburgh festival’s promenade of protest and play

silverguide.site – Lebanese choreographer Omar Rajeh’s outdoor dance fizzes with communal energy but its overstuffed concept blunts its political impact…
Dance People review – join Edinburgh festival’s promenade of protest and play
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Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie review – the edgiest One Direction fanfic on the fringe

silverguide.site – The 2023 best newcomer winner rebuts her ‘mild’ reputation with choice quips and boyband erotica…
Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie review – the edgiest One Direction fanfic on the fringe
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Standing in the Shadows of Giants review – Lucie Barât looks back at spiral during Libertines’ rise

silverguide.site – Sibling envy, a stumbling acting career and addiction are covered in an indistinctive show by the sister of Carl…
Standing in the Shadows of Giants review – Lucie Barât looks back at spiral during Libertines’ rise
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When Billy Met Alasdair review – two Scottish giants happily collide

silverguide.site – Alan Bissett embodies both the expansive Big Yin and the detached author of Lanark in a thoughtful, entertaining search for their connection…
When Billy Met Alasdair review – two Scottish giants happily collide
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Lost Lear review – Shakespeare’s king holds court in a care home

silverguide.site – In Dan Colley’s evocative play, a retired actor with dementia loops through scenes from the classic tragedy…
Lost Lear review – Shakespeare’s king holds court in a care home
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Works and Days review – wild ride charts the arc of human progress

silverguide.site – Performers dig up the stage, roll in the sack and merge with machines in Belgian theatre collective FC Bergman’s arresting show…
Works and Days review – wild ride charts the arc of human progress
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Every Brilliant Thing review – Lenny Henry gets audience on board for list of life’s joys

silverguide.site – Henry is the first of a group of star performers taking Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s hit show about depression into the West End…
Every Brilliant Thing review – Lenny Henry gets audience on board for list of life’s joys
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Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian

silverguide.site – Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour…
Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian
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‘Casually jaw-dropping’: at an Edinburgh fringe of tricks and treats, Ben Hart has the magic touch

silverguide.site – The sense of wonder never wavers in Hart’s charming ‘best of’ set, a fringe favourite in a year of crowd-pleasing card work, mentalism and a hidden-squirrel routine…
‘Casually jaw-dropping’: at an Edinburgh fringe of tricks and treats, Ben Hart has the magic touch
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No Apologies review – what if Kurt Cobain was transgender?

silverguide.site – In a poetic performance, former teenage grunge obsessive Emma Frankland takes heart from a fantasy about the Nirvana musician…
No Apologies review – what if Kurt Cobain was transgender?
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Good Night, Oscar review – Sean Hayes brings panache to tense talkshow encounter

silverguide.site – Will & Grace star reprises his Tony award-winning role as Oscar Levant in Doug Wright’s play about a ratings-crucial TV interview…
Good Night, Oscar review – Sean Hayes brings panache to tense talkshow encounter
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Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material review – an eccentric hour from a fringe fledgling

silverguide.site – The south Londoner’s avian theme frames a fine debut about family, neurodivergence, pigeons, pigeons and more pigeons…
Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material review – an eccentric hour from a fringe fledgling
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