Pip Utton

Pip Utton’s Farewell to the Fringe

Pip Utton’s Farewell to the Fringe

Bacon: ★★★★☆ Raw
Hunchback of Notre Dame: ★★★★☆ Visceral
And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You : ★★★★★ Extraordinary

After thirty-four years, Pip Utton bids farewell to Edinburgh Fringe with a one-man repertory of three plays: Bacon, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You.

Sep 1 2026 | By More
Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe

Pip Utton’s Farewell to Edinburgh Fringe

Rebecca Mahar talks to the great monodramatist.

To say that Pip Utton, has done all the biggies, from Hitler to Thatcher, Francis Bacon to William Shakespeare, from Lear to Dickens, is to undervalue the nature of his performance. Utton has been those people, in a series of monodramas that allow him inhabit them like a chameleon on a leaf.

Aug 18 2026 | By More
King Lear

King Lear

★★★★★ Unmissable

Pip Utton is back for a thirty-first year at the Fringe with his new monodrama King Lear, at the Pleasance Courtyard for the final two weeks of the fringe only.

Aug 21 2025 | By More
At Home With Will Shakespeare

At Home With Will Shakespeare

★★★★★ Sans nothing

It’s a popular image of Shakespeare: the great Bard, bent over his desk, quill flying over parchment as he composes some of the greatest drama ever put on the stage. But in At Home With Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton’s Shakespeare does not write freely…

Aug 22 2024 | By | Reply More
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