Points of view: theatre, comedy and news
Gracing the Edinburgh Fringe once more with his presence, comedian, actor and improviser-extraordinaire Chris Grace talks to Pepper&Salt about his new show 88%, being okay with almost perfect and asking the tough questions without the assumption of getting any of the answers.
Making her Edinburgh Fringe debut with her show Squeaky Bum Time, triple threat and Ted Lasso star Sapphire McIntosh chats to Pepper&Salt about her new hour, writing process, hope and realism as well as what artists might make the cut for her pre-show playlist.
The Gaulier-trained Zoe Wohlfeld sits down to answer Pepper&Salt's questions about her upcoming Edinburgh Fringe debut, Dog Funeral, Wohlefeld's approach to writing and clown as well as the rule for Pinot Grigio.
In Bog Witch, Bryony Kimmings attempts to create a theatrical spectacle, with all the flash that we associate and expect from a production of this nature. The issue arises when we peel it all back and ask the question, “So what?” And in answering that question, it becomes clear very quickly that the emperor really does not have any clothes and all the tech and clever storytelling is just a surface-level mirage.
The saying ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’ couldn’t be more applicable to Jack Grossman and Zoe Wohlfeld’s A Night Of Drama. What starts off as a perhaps Renaissance-esque, Athenian public square practice of bringing a meritocratic, Speakers’ Corner element to theatre quickly devolves into a Hobbesian thought experiment that perhaps best exemplifies why Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is still very applicable.
Jain Edwards’ She Devil is an admittedly relevant piece of theatre that uses understated character comedy to convey a deeply personal and somewhat political hour of stand-up. It’s definitely an interesting concept, but overall She-Devil doesn’t quite deliver on what we would assume the promise and premise of this show to be.
Starting as an off-beat and innocent comedy show that could be mistaken for stand-up, Rhys Darby’s The Legend Returns quickly devolves into unmitigated and hilarious chaos, covering everything from the feud between Australia and New Zealand to the next Olympics and the dangers of AI.
Xhloe and Natasha are gracing the Fringe once more with their presence and bringing all three of their consecutive Scotsman Fringe First - winning shows - And Then The Rodeo Burned Down, What If They Ate The Baby and A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson Or God : Whoever Reads This First - back to Edinburgh. But first, they penned a correspondence to Pepper&Salt detailing what happened before the rodeo burned down, who, what, why and how they ate the baby and who read the letter first, Lyndon B. Johnson or God.
Universal Pictures Content Group (UPCG) announces today it has acquired UK theatrical rights for box office smash-hit and double TONY award-winning, SIX the Musical Live! The performance, filmed at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, features the Original Queens returning to reprise their roles and will release widely in cinemas via Universal Pictures (UK) on 6 April.
In Awkward Productions’ Gwyneth Goes Skiing, Linus Karp and Joseph Martin very much live up to the tenor set by the infamous trial on which this show is based on. What we see over the course of this production is an amalgamation of all the comedy and storytelling techniques that they have been refining over... Continue Reading →
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