Review: Pals
It’s not been done like this before. This play fully deserves its accolades. Though we associate the First War Pals Battalions with the north (the Accrington for instance) this show localises it to every community it tours.
Genre: Fringe Theatre
Review: According to Angelica
‘It’s about this nurse.’ Angelica, former nurse to the Capulets sets out her moonlight vegetables quite literally. The essential point is that’s it a fascinating take, and a compelling story.
Review: Tina C’s President -C
Witty, wonderful and warming politics meets drag queen meets country singer...in a tent on an intersection.
Review: Mobile
Fringe theatre at its best. A unique intimate experience with outstanding production values.
Review: Waiting For Curry
Susanne Crosby’s Waiting for Curry – a title suggested by friends as they indeed waited for a takeaway – is a four-hander with a social reckoning, a denouement, and a very unexpected plot point. An excellent play and cast needing wider circulation; the audience was packed.
Review: The End of Things
A fascinating performance, more about the spaces between than the importance of the things we treasure.
Review: Motherhood:(Un)speakable, (Un)spoken
Ninety seconds into this newly-revised one-woman play, Joanna Rosenfeld - emerging in a poke of fingers from a cagoule of brown paper - over-voices herself giving witness to tens of verbatim experiences we hear. This tells us the baby’s a parasite, sucks all your nutrients, calcium from your teeth for instance, causes injury, often permanent, can kill. This is - literally - epic interior theatre.
Review: Guerilla Aspies
This is an absolutely necessary and enagaging show about Aspergers we need to see back. The audience was packed, and exhilarated, Wady making contact with nearly everyone but in a creative and – yes – neutrotypical way.
Review: Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken
Moments into this one-woman play, Joanna Rosenfeld - emerging in a poke of fingers from a cagoule of brown paper - over-voices herself giving witness to tens of verbatim experiences we hear. This tells us the baby’s a parasite, sucks all your nutrients, calcium from your teeth for instance, causes injury, often permanent, can kill. This is - literally - epic interior theatre.
Review: A Bench On The Road
A startling 7 woman collective piece that tells remarkable individual stories in a striking collective theatrical piece on the role of Italian women in Scotland
Review: The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Lucas Petit
An off beat look at life that highlights rather than sparkles but raises a smile nonetheless
Review: The Magnetic Diaries
An intelligent and challenging poetic narrative exploring modern day female depression.
Review: A History, w Nowell Edmurnds
An uncomfortable reflection on our society’s adoration of fame.
Review: Nel
A fast paced jam packed show, a cinematic experience without technology, a multisensory treat.
Review: Just let the Wind Untie My Perfumed Hair … or Who is Tahirih?
A haunting account of the Iranian poet and radical feminist Tahira played by Delia Olam who has impressively written, composed and performed the entire show based on the true accounts of this once forgotten heroine.
Review: 4D Cinema
A historical and technological exploration of Marlene Dietrich, autobiography and live performance.
Review: Sodden Flodden
The story of a tragedy in Scotland told 400 years later with music and storytelling showing that at least something survived it well
Review: Yoke’s Night
An evening of drugs, mayhem and macabre dealings where all is more than what it seems.
Review: Molly Whuppie
An engaging hour or so in the company of masters in Scottish storytelling for children
Review: Dirty Glitter
The 1970’s are back and funky with a cop drama that focusses on the times rather than the storylines.
Review: At War with Love
A poignant, deep and vibrant use of Shakespearean sonnet dressed in the context of World War One
Review: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
"an incredible show which authentically reproduces the novel onto the stage."
Review: A Series of Unfortunate Breakups
A bittersweet tale of 3 relationships that never quite end the way you expect
Review: Five Go Off on One
The Famous Five, without one, go off on an adventure on summer hols for jolly japes and smuggling scrapes.
Review: Joan, Babs & Sheila Too
A stunning traversal of Joan Littlewood’s life by Gemskii and Conscious Theatre. Without her, there would never have been A Taste of Honey, Oh What a Lovely War, or much of postwar British theatre.
Review: Behind the Front Lines; Warriors and Wives
A narrative piece of theatre weaving the story of a wife and a soldier under the conditions of war
Review: Simon Says
A touching brief play scooped out of the air by two bright students with only a title to go on.
Review: Wolf Meat
Profoundly silly and farcically serious show with just the kind of anarchy that offers coke to audience members. Contains brief and ghastly nudity.
Review: Year Without Summer
Fascinating sideling glimpse of Romantic poets and writers through a chaise-long laced with gothic intent.
Review: Something Rotten
Scintillating subversive and original take on Hamlet’s unhappy uncle, weighed down by doubts and too many jokers. Beware of complicity.
Review: Dancing in the Dark
Inspired off-centre situationist drama from acclaimed Wired Theatre about family, grief and sexual identities.
Review: The Cunning Mr Lingus
Advice on how to sex up your life and your period appendages sets tongues wagging for a second year in this warm comedy from Alpha males to a wicked Omega-
Review: And the Rope Still Tugging Her Feet
Compelling, downright funny yet tragic true narrative of the Kerry Baby affair of 1984. Caroline Burns Cooke triumphs as writer and actor.
Review: Conductors Unbecoming: Scenes from Orchestral Life
Gavin Henderson Presents: Fascinating insight into how the best-known Director of the Brighton Festival got things done as an orchestral manager.
Review: The Marlowe Papers
A diamond in Shakespeare’s or Marlowe’s ruff? Ros Barber’s novel adapted for the stage, starring vaulting Jamie Martin.
Review: A Good Jew
Keenly-anticipated new play by Jonathan Brown breaks new territory; it’s both theatrically challenging and disturbing.
Review: Limelight
Showstopping numbers stud this heartwarming, touching new play with numbers by Liz Tait.
Review: The Bald Prima Donna
Spirited pacey revival of Ionesco’s first play, with one stand-out performance and superbly idiomatic one. A perfect introduction to the playwright.
Review: Persona
Clean focused reading by Bexelei Theatre's young talent of Jon Barton's new play on trolling
Review: Sex, Strokes, Death, Denial
Jack Duffel's new play mixes extreme naturalism with verse in a play creatively probing death and displacement in the family
Review: Thorn
Tremendously energised one-man play about an Australian minister's son on a mission, but which one?
Review: Airswimming
Superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s play abut two women incarcerated for fifty years for bring different.
Review: Groomed
Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...
Review: Distortion
Disquieting premiere about sexual abuse torturing the memories of a child, her adult self, and her abuser
Review: International Waters
An intriguing evening of disaster, mayhem and murder in a cocktail frock
Review: How You Gonna Live Your Dash?
How are you going to spend your life, in 70 minutes of event that might change your mind.
Review: At least we can laugh about it
A full hour of laughter and fun from an Icelandic performer that tickles, amuses and makes you guffaw liberally.
Review: Daughter
The funeral of a daughter, on the side of Loch Lomond is carefully choreographed by the corpse whilst she is still living.
Review: We Always Knew This Day Was Coming
One man’s journey from fireman to girlfriend to boyfriend as told in 1 minute episodes
Review: Captain Morgan 1: The Sands of Time
The performers, two actors and a musician playing violin, manage to create a whole world and a host of characters (apparently around 44 which in itself is a mind boggle) in the space of an hour.
Review: Adam Riches is Coach Coach
A brilliant romp on the American sporting Dream of winning at all costs
Review: How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed
How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed
Review: Wild Bill: Sonnet of a Bardsterd
An intense performance that explores the origins of Shakespeare’s work and his legacy to date.
Review: The Cupboard
Weird and fanciful fairy tale that smells a rat from the very beginning and ends up discarded in the wrong cupboard
Review: The Sunset Five
A wonderful hour of devised theatre with a charming cast, strong musicianship, and lots of laughs
Review: The Adventures Of Nellie Bly
Stop the press! Follow life in the fast (Lois) Lane with this interpid girl reporter!
