Review - A Special Relationship

With the 2025 Edinburgh Festival just 4 months away (no, I can't believe it either) and shows starting to appear on the Fringe website we thought it might be right to take time away from planning this year's show spreadsheet and head out to see some theatre, just to be prepared for August.

So DarkChat Dave took time out to catch up with DarkChat favourite Tim Marriott's latest play 'A Special Relationship' at the Tabard Theatre in London.

You can read his review here

DarkChat Awards 2024

Well, that is now the official end of the of the 2024 Edinburgh festival season, well for us at least as the 2024 DarkChat awards have taken place!

Today we announce the winners of our 15th Annual Awards, honouring our favourite shows from

this year's festival.

Amazingly, these were the first that awards that DarkChatter David has published on Twitter/X all

by himself! No longer can DarkChatter Carl poke fun at his lack of technical skills! (Ed - it won't stop me!)

There were several big winners. Reves picked up 3 awards for Best Entertainment/Music/Dance, Best

Director and the coveted Best Show accolade.

However, DarkChat favourite John Robertson took home the most gongs, triumphing in four categories, Best Moment, Best One Person Show, Best Comedy Show & Best Comedy Performance.

So, we can now go into hibernation until January 2025 when the shows start to be released for next year's Edinburgh festival. And we can't wait!

You can check out all of the winners and a full list of nominees here.

Before the awards we took time out from the intense planning to interview some of

the people we encountered during our stay at the Fringe. David Cox spoke to CEO

of the Eric Liddell Community about their Exhibition "The Eric Liddell Exhibition" which

which we loved attending during August, the work of the charity and how they are

celebrating the centenary of Liddell's 1924 Olympic win.

You can read that interview here.

And just like that we are done!

It can't really be over already can it? Whilst the Edinburgh Fringe remains in full swing for another few weeks, DarkChat's race is already run and we have left Edinburgh for another year! We at DarkChat were lower on numbers this year, so were unable to see and review as much as we would like but rest assured we have now got all of those stars and reviews out and you can find those here including our five-star reviews for Rêves, Mairi Campbell, Jordan Brookes and John Robertson.

We've also been lucky enough to speak to DarkChat favourite Luke Wright who told us

about this year's show 'Joy!' and shared some of his Edinburgh memories, you can read

that here or on our News page.

Before we had arrived on Scottish soil the DarkChat wheels had started to turn and

we had already been interviewing some acts that were preparing to "Unleash their

Fringe" this August! The first of those was John Handscombe from Good Wolf People

who told us about the sold-out success of their show this year, The 100-Year Old Letter

and his Fringe experiences through the years.