For coverage appearing in the run-up to the Fringe, and during it, please check my Twitter account (@TextualHealing2) this page, and also:
www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2014/group/textual_healing
For reviews, see below, meanwhile here is some advance coverage and features:
Joe Bor, Rebecca Humphries, Paula Valluerca, Lizzy Mace, Dave Griffiths and Phil Mann of Battle Acts appeared in The Daily Mail’s best jokes of the Fringe piece:
Here’s some lovely coverage for Rebecca Humphries in The Sunday Times of July 6th, 2014:
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and in Buzzfeed in June:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/
Here’s Dave Griffiths in the Evening Standard on July 4, 2014:
Russ Mulligan has blogged for Total Politics (July 8, 2014):
http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/446637/dont-give-up-your-day-job-mate.thtml
Inder Manocha, Eastern Eye, July 11, 2014
Inder Manocha Eastern Eye
OpenTheatres.com interviews:
Paula Valluerca – http://opentheatres.com/edinburghspain-paula-valluerca-puts-the-passion-back-in-fashion-with-madame-senorita/
The Cleek – http://opentheatres.com/edinburghthe-world-the-cleeks-take-on-high-browlow-brow-improv/
Wild Card Kitty in The List
BattleActs and The Cleek in The List
Joe Bor in The Independent, August 7:
Madeline Carrick in Three Weeks, August 6:
http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/article/threeweeks-editors-letter-week-one-issue-is-out-today/
http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/weekly/3wks2014_edweek1.pdf
Comedy Blogedy interviews:
Spencer Jones:
http://comedyblogedy.com/2014/07/28/interview-with-spencer-jones/
Wild Card Kitty:
http://comedyblogedy.com/2014/07/28/interview-with-wild-card-kitty/
Lizzy Mace:
http://comedyblogedy.com/2014/07/28/interview-with-lizzy-mace/
Reviews:
5 stars for Rebecca Humphries from The Good Review:
http://thegoodreview.co.uk/2014/08/dizney-rascal-edinburgh-fringe/
4 stars for Rebecca Humphries from The Public Reviews:
http://www.thepublicreviews.com/tag/rebecca-humphries/
4 stars for Rebecca in Time Out
http://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/rebecca-humphries-dizney-rascal-review
4 stars for Rebecca in Beyond The Joke
http://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1010/edinburgh-review-rebecca-humphries
4 stars for Rebecca in Metro
A lovely review for Lizzy Mace in Broadway World:
4 stars for Inder Manocha in The Scotsman:
http://www.wow247.co.uk/blog/2014/08/06/white-mans-burden/
Nice review for The Cleek in Broadway World
Superb 4-star review from The List for Anna Emerson:
http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/63553-an-evening-with-patti-dupont/
4-star review from The Skinny for Anna Emerson:
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/fringe_2014/308747-anna_emerson_evening_with_patti_dupont_st_johns
4-star review for Dave Griffiths in Broadway Baby:
http://www.broadwaybaby.com/shows/dave-griffiths-c-u-in-court/700732
4-star review for Maddy Carrick’s children’s show:
http://www.broadwaybaby.com/shows/the-worlds-worst-birthday-party/700190
WOW24 / The Scotsman features:
Rebecca Humphries:
http://www.wow247.co.uk/blog/2014/08/08/rebecca-humphries-5-things-ive-learned-at-the-fringe/
Joe Bor:
http://www.wow247.co.uk/blog/2014/08/13/5-things-ive-learned-at-the-fringe-joe-bor/
Spencer Jones:
http://www.wow247.co.uk/blog/2014/08/13/spencer-jones-the-perils-of-fringe-flat-sharing/
Herald Q&As:
Rebecca Humphries:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/fringe-qas-rebecca-humphries.1408114151
Paula Valluerca:
Anna Emerson in The Times Diary:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/stage/edinburgh-festival/article4175243.ece
An Evening with Patti DuPont (La Favorita Freestival, St John’s) is a rather lovely spoof devised by Anna Emerson. Punters show up expecting an 84-year-old grand dame of Hollywood (nine husbands, 149 films) to regale them with salacious tales from Tinseltown. After a mishap in a plastic surgery suite, however, Patti is indisposed and Linda, her put-upon daughter (played by Emerson) has to deliver the show. Problems began during the previews, when a bloke showed up twice looking for Patti LuPone, a real-life Broadway star. They’ve continued with Fringe audiences taking issue with some of Linda’s wilder claims for her mom, like the bit when she says Patti doubled for Sean Penn in the film Milk. “I heard cries of disgust,” Anna tells us, “It’s pretty late in a clearly fictional life, but they still thought Patti was real.”
Piece in Huffington Post featuring Anna Emerson:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/polly-allen/edinburgh-fringe-2014-female-comedians_b_5678642.html
Museum of Comedy’s Edinburgh season:
Bruce Dessau’s Beyond The Joke:
http://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1057/news-museum-comedy-stage-post-edinburgh-festival
The Londonist:
http://londonist.com/2014/09/edinburgh-comes-to-london-the-fringe-goes-south.php
Islington Gazette: