Month: August 2014

  • Fringe Guru reviews Rebranding Beelzebub.

    Lizzie Bell from Fringe Guru reviewed Rebranding Beelzebub and gave it a big, fat four stars. “This is a funny, cleverly-done show that is very much worth seeing: one that will delight, amuse and surprise you by turns. It’s a highly entertaining hour with a top-rate storyteller. If you enjoy tales of supernatural trickery and…

  • Interview on Getting Better Acquainted

    I took a morning out from flyering to record a podcast with Dave Pickering from Stand Up Tragedy and Getting Better Acquainted. I talk about storytelling, Edinburgh, ministry and narrative in other mediums.

  • Review: 300 to 1

    Following a recommendation, Tim and The Devil go along to see Matt Panesh’s 300 to 1 TIM: So here’s a concept for you, a one man show re-enacting the movie 300 with critical commentary from the ghosts of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. THE DEVIL: Intriguing. TIM: Yes. I think the concept is brilliant and…

  • Review: Can’t Care, Won’t Care

    Wandering the nether corridors of The Banshee Labyrinth, Tim and The Devil go to see Sophia Walker’s Can’t care, Won’t care THE DEVIL: Do we do awards? I want to do awards. I want to nominate this for the Philip Pullman prize for the show with the darkest material. TIM: Quite! The premise is pretty…

  • Listener reward schemes

    The Devil is a great believer in rewarding the faithful. Got this wee sticker from @TimRalphs – @RedRidingBorg stop giggling. Serious business! pic.twitter.com/1HMvIVAhdy — Rachel Gallagher MUA (@rachel__mua) August 6, 2014 Tim Ralphs is a storyteller and his show of urban devilry Rebranding Beelzebub is on every night from 2 August 2014 to 24 August…

  • Review: Wretch like me

    Tim and the talking serpent he suspects is The Devil attend David Templeton’s Wretch like me (or How I was saved from being saved.) TIM: This is a storytelling show in which Templeton talks about his lonely childhood and how he was increasingly sucked into the Evangelical Christianity in his teens. He does a good…

  • Review: Dandy Darkly’s Pussy Panic

    Continuing the theme of shows with expletives in the title, Tim and The Devil go to see Dandy Darkly’s Pussy Panic. THE DEVIL: Ahh my beloved Dandy. Self-professed to be New York’s satiric and satanic storyteller. TIM: Yeah, this really felt like it held promise for both of us. I must say I’ve been delighted…

  • Review: What the F*ck is This?

    It should be noted that the show we saw was plagued with technical difficulties including, but not limited to, RTJ having to use an older version of his multimedia presentation. It seems a bit disingenuous to review someone’s show on the basis of such a slip up, so I spoke to RTJ about this review…

  • Musings on Flyering

    Hi. Tim is off at some fancy “Meet the Media” event at Fringe central, but he asked me to write something about our Edinburgh adventure for this blog. I lied and told him I couldn’t work because it was the Sabbath. He gave me a worried, bewildered look. It is one of my favourite pieces…

  • Review: Brave and Free

    Today we went to the Scottish Storytelling Centre to check out one of the few traditional storytelling acts in the Fringe Programme – Calum Lykan’s Brave and Free TIM: That was my first time listening to Calum Lykan. We had a good natter before the show and worked out which other storytellers we knew in…