Mark Fisher
- Scottish
- Journalist
Press clippings
Liberation Squares review
Three unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government's Prevent strategy.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 19th April 2024Edinburgh focus: What can be done to save the world's biggest and best arts festival?
As Edinburgh's annual summer spectacular kicks off amid cost-of-living hikes, rising accommodation costs and ongoing concerns about its sheer size and direction of travel, Fergus Morgan asks voices from the industry and beyond about the one thing they would change to secure the festival's future.
Fergus Morgan, The Stage, 4th August 2023Dear Billy review - brilliant tribute to the Big Yin
Gary McNair delivers verbatim interviews and misremembered Connolly routines from ordinary people in this love letter.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 19th May 2023Paul O'Grady interview
As he prepares to return to Edinburgh as Miss Hannigan in a touring production of Annie, Paul O'Grady recalls how an incendiary Fringe performance in the city in 1991 ignited his career.
Mark Fisher, The Scotsman, 14th March 2023Laurel and Hardy review - a dream of slapstick and sadness
Stephen McNicoll and Barnaby Power make a consummate team as the comedy legends, delivering knockabout hilarity with a melancholy undertow.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 8th June 2022Sunny Side Up! review
Set in a northern seaside B&B, John Godber's latest play has a healthy dollop of political analysis beneath its very funny surface.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 15th September 2021Talent review
Victoria Wood drama tackles the squalid side of celebrity.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 5th July 2021Daniel Kitson's Dot. Dot. Dot. review
Daniel Kitson's unkempt everyman charts the strangest of years.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 2nd November 2020The AI bot creating new fringe shows every hour
Edinburgh University's ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-shows.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 10th August 2020