Meet The Fringepig Team...Edmund Rumania

About 10 years ago there was a stuffed toy reviewer-reviewer called Steve Womble who made a name for himself with his uncompromising reviewer-reviews.

He once famously said that he’d rather “get a sex change, grow some ovaries, then cut them out and eat them” than have to read another of Kate Copstick’s reviews.

Womble was also a hermaphrodite bisexual, meaning that he could be unapologetically sexist to both men and women without anyone ever complaining.

Womble was Edmund Rumania’s uncle (later aunt) and also his idol. Edmund has been working hard to carry on that family legacy of being a proper dick to people without engaging with them on any level. He writes articles and reviewer-reviews for us in between shifts at his uncle’s bailiff company.

His favourite phrase is “If you want to review people at the biggest and best arts festival on earth, you’d better not be shit at it.”


Reviews filed by Edmund Rumania

Nick Awde

Nick Awde has been around since gaslighting, writing about theatre and working on a string of large stage productions, some ...

Tamarin Fountain

First the good news: Tamarin Fountain has an excellent name. Well, that’s not the good news. But she does, though ...

Catriona Scott

There’s something very amusing about Catriona Scott’s reviews. She writes in the style of a Victorian botanist describing something nobody ...

Daisy Malt

What would the Fringe be without Three Weeks waking up really late in the proceedings and sneezing embryonic reporters all ...

Gill Geoff

I’m starting to lose my faith in One4Review. In a year when Steve Bennett and Julia Chamberlain seem to have ...

Vyvyan Almond

Vyvyan Almond’s sentences are quite over-constructed. They sometimes take so long to reach their point that reading his reviews puts ...

James McColl

If all reviewers wrote like James McColl, Fringepig would be out of business. Not that Fringepig IS a business, obviously ...

Edimbrugh Fringe Dog

Well, you wait 67 years for an Edinburgh Fringe parody to happen, and then two come along at once. This ...

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