And so that is it for another year. A lovely Scottish meal of Salmon followed by Cranachan (complete with little Scottie shortbread) was consumed and the 15 DarkChat Awards for 2022 were presented.

The big winners of the night were " A War Of Two Halves" with 5 wins though congratulations go out to all the winners and nominees. At DarkChat there are no winners and losers, literally no winners and losers as there are definitely no physical prizes or cash bonuses!

And it is time for the DarkChat team to hibernate until January when the first 2023 shows are announced and we can begin to get excited all over again.

Until then.

We always like to find a new trend at the Edinburgh Fringe and in 2022 we saw the rise of the One Person show. One of our favourites was Jake Thompson in "A Mighty Fall From Grace". Now that the dust is settling on this year's festival we spoke to him to see how his Fringe experience was.

Having loved Soho Boy this year we asked actor Owen Dennis and producer Richard Lambert how the Fringe has been for them this year.

DarkChat first saw Tim Fitzhigham and Thom Tuck do MacBeth in 2019. This year former DarkChatter Chris watched the show when Nick Helm was guest director, and also loved it.

Tim took some time out to tell us what it is like performing in the Scottish play ... in Scotland and flyering Hugh Laurie!

One of our favourite shows of the festival this year was "A War Of Two Halves". Co-writer and actor Paul Beeson kindly opened the doors to Tynecastle revealing the background behind this moving story.

Having loved Waiting for Hamlet at this year's Fringe we spoke to writer David Visick along with actors Nicholas Collett and Tim Marriott to see how their Edinburgh experience is treating them.

Having loved "Labels" we couldn't wait to see " Fanboy" and we weren't disappointed.

Joe Sellman-Leava kindly took time out of his busy schedule to give us this lovely interview

Following previews in Cardiff - which we loved - Francois Pandolfo tells us how MIly-Liu is settling in Edinburgh and what lies ahead for their Fringe.

Dan Kelly once finished 3rd in The North Korean Marathon. We find out how.

Our first Fringe preview of the year sees Francois Pandolfo in An Audience With Mily-Liu.

What do you get when you cross six of the countries best crime writers with the music of The Beatles, The Clash and The Pretenders amongst others? We spoke to writer (and drummer) Doug Johnstone who gave us the lowdown on writing supergroup The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.