Edinburgh Festivals Daily Guide - 4 August
Reviews
Simon Munnery Sings Soren Kierkegaard (4 stars)
Four stars notwithstanding, I feel duty bound to point out that Simon Munnery’s show is not exactly a laugh a minute. In his first preview here it probably peaks at a laugh every two minutes.
Glen Matlock: I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol (3 stars)
How often do you get to sing along to Pretty Vacant with the guy who wrote it? Not often. That’s why the Fringe is such a wonderful thing. Matlock – the teenage rocker who joined the Sex Pistols, then left after falling out with Johnny Rotten – was at the beginning of a revolution in music. And now he’s here to tell us how it was.
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Interviews
Plenty of the old gang from Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be taking part in Clive Anderson’s Fringe show. The presenter and former barrister talks to Claire Smith about improv and the interview he would rather we all forgot
Edinburgh’s trams may have been years late, but the Traverse show exploring the vexed project will be bang on time, finds Brian Ferguson
Susan Mansfield talks to Maureen Beattie and Muriel Romanes about this year’s Fringe productions from Stellar Quines
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