Underbelly
Underbelly has announced that it is delighted with its best year of awards, critical reception and ticket sales to date.
Over 200 shows, seventeen awards and nominations, over £40,000 raised for charities, over 500 4 & 5 star reviews made 2018 a terrific Fringe for Underbelly and its companies and artists.
Underbelly are gearing up for their most ambitious Edinburgh Festival Fringe to date as a raft of top shows go on sale on Monday. The eleven top shows provide a glimpse into the 2018 programme, charting comedy stars, international circus acts and West End theatrics set to perform across Underbelly’s Fringe footprint including McEwan Hall, marking a return after a three year absence.
Underbelly Festival on London's South Bank has announced its tenth anniversary line-up, including headline shows from four countries across four different continents by some of the finest purveyors of circus in the world.
After a gap of three years Underbelly returns to McEwan Hall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018. Some shows there and some other shows elsewhere have just been announced.
Five spaces will be Underbelly auditoria for the duration of the Fringe, the main McEwan Hall auditorium (capacity c.900), and four smaller spaces ranging in capacity from 60 to 145. The first shows there have just been announced with more to come.
Underbelly has celebrated the end of its 18th year on the Fringe with the announcement of its biggest and best year yet with record breaking ticket sales across all its venues. Presenting 150 shows across 16 venues, tickets sales increased across the board by 17% to 291,000.
After you have watched Elf Lyons performng her version of Swan Lake in a ludicrously bright bird costume you’ll find her unique voice stays with you.
In the past three years Al Porter has progressed from playing a tiny room at the Gilded Balloon to a giant barn at the Underbelly.
In recent years audience participation shows seem to have grown in popularity, with the likes of Adam Riches and Dr Brown having award-winning hits with gigs where the ticketholder becomes co-star. This year’s big new immersive success could come from Australian comic Steen Raskopoulos.
The annual Udderbelly Festival in London is to unite with the London Wonderground season to become the Underbelly Festival – a new multi-arts extravaganza on London’s South Bank running from 28 April – 30 September.
I’ve previously only ever seen purple puppet Randy with his double act partner Sammy J. But he has performed solo in the past and this year’s show, Randy Writes A Novel, finds him on his own again, a wannabe author who wants to test out his new manuscript on us.
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