Holly Williams

Film taste: Some names: Michel Gondry - Lars von Trier - Coens - bit of Hitchcock

Music taste: A few more names: Joanna Newsom - Herman Dune - The Cure - The Smiths - Bat for Lashes - Fleet Foxes - Belle&Sebastian - The Postal Service - lovely 60s stuff

Hangout: Sam Smiths pubs and places with trees

Most likes (about London): Having so many things you want to do all the time; buses that run at 4 in the morning; exploring on foot

Least likes: Not getting to do a quarter of the things you want to; waiting for buses for an hour and a half at 4 in the morning; black stuff up your nose after taking the tube

Me in 10 words: . . .

Holly's Articles

Beautiful Burnout at York Hall - 17 September

As befits a play about a boxing training club, Beautiful Burnout has a jumped up, pumped up, hyper-physica...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Lady Garden - Top Secret Gig - 30 August

This female six-piece sketch troupe keep things bright and beautiful in their comedy garden – t...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Dan Antopolski - Turn of the Century - 29 August

At the festival, I've seen comedians that do poems and raps, funny voices and thrown voices, songs...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Nina Conti - Talk to the Hand - 28 August

Prepare to have your mind warped. By monkeys. Nina Conti has long been respected as one of the most ski...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Laura Solon - The Owl of Steven - 27 August

Laura Solon takes us on a trip, to Steven Island in search of an owl. Her show is a whimsical tale...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Brendon Burns - Y'know Love 'n' God 'n' Metaphysics 'n' Shit - 27 August

Brendon Burns can seem a little brash – he likes to shout, he's pretty blunt about what he do...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Baba Brinkman: The Rap Guide To Human Nature - 27 August

Following his Rap Guide to Evolution, white Canadian rapper and science geek Baba Brinkman stick...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Ian D Montford - Touching The Dead - 27 August

Toms Binns got in a bit of trouble with his last character, Ivan Brackenbury the hospital DJ, afte...... read more

Edinburgh Review: Bo Burnham - Words, Words, Words - 25 August

First, he was a 'YouTube sensation' – a real one, getting millions of hits for acerbically c...... read more

Edinburgh Interview: Russell Kane - 7 August

Being on tour can be tough – and Edinburgh regular Russell Kane knows the festivalcan particularl...... read more

Interview: Sean Hughes - 30 July

How time passes. It’s 20 years since Sean Hughes took his first show to Edinburgh, planning ...... read more

Interview: Ian D Montford - 30 July

Hi Ian. In your show, you’ll be using your psychic abilities to channel dead people. W...... read more

Not By Bread Alone at artsdepot - 7 July

Man does not live by bread alone; we need hopes and dreams, love and laughter, human contact and connec...... read more

Wave If You're Really There - 13 April

St. Leonard’s Church again plays host to Mercy’s evening of music and poetry. It&rsquo...... read more

Mrs Warren's Profession at Comedy Theatre - 26 March

When Mrs Warren’s Profession had its first public performance in America in 1905, more than a de...... read more

The Gods Weep at Hampstead Theatre - 23 March

Influenced by Akira Kurosawa’s film adaptation of King Lear, Ran, but also recalling Edward Bond&rsq...... read more

Preview: The Gods Weep at Hampstead Theatre - 15 March

Dennis Kelly doesn’t think his plays are dark. Audiences and critics don’t agree, perhaps...... read more

Preview: Wave if You're Really There - 12 March

Mercy! It’s the return of the wonderful Wave If You’re Really There. Their last s...... read more

Russell Kane's Fakespeare - 10 March

Russell Kane’s first foray into playwrighting sees him taking on the big guns: as 'Fakespea...... read more

Interview: Russell Kane - 8 March

Russell Kane has come over a bit Elizabethan. His show Fakespeare, which comes to London as part of...... read more

Preview: Lost Soul Music at Pleasance Theatre - 9 February

White Rose Theatre hail from York and had a runaway success with TONY! The Blair Musical at the Edinburgh...... read more

Preview: The Hostage at Southwark Playhouse - 1 February

Last time Brendan Behan’s most notable play was on in London, terrorism and hostage taking wou...... read more

Unveiling Hagar at New End Theatre - 26 January

Unveiling Hagar often obscures more than it reveals. The narrative – Max, a recently bereaved Lond...... read more

Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland at the Old Red Lion Theatre - 13 January

Luke Wright Luke Wright’s Petty Concerns sees the comic performance poet examining his own 'hubri...... read more

Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland at the Old Red Lion Theatre - 13 January

Luke Wright Luke Wright’s Petty Concerns sees the comic performance poet examining his own 'hubri...... read more

Camille O'Sullivan at the Apollo Theatre - 11 December

Camille O’Sullivan walks on stage in head-to-toe funereal black, all demure lace and long skir...... read more

Camille O'Sullivan at the Apollo Theatre - 11 December

Camille O’Sullivan walks on stage in head-to-toe funereal black, all demure lace and long skir...... read more

Wave If You're Really There - 7 December

Much more than a band making art rock disco on a Cash Converter keyboard and a start up drum kit, Holly...... read more

Future or Ruin at Charlie Smith London - 9 November

Future or Ruin makes some pretty bold claims for a small exhibition: its selection of works by a group...... read more

Poejazzi at Proud - 4 November

My fear that a poetry and jazz night might be overly pretentious, or only patronised by achingly hip...... read more