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Review: The Last Return
A highly entertaining ensemble performance that is a masterclass in characterisation and comedic timing
Review: Fabulett 1933
Camp and tender musical portrayal of life for queers in 1933 Berlin through the forced closing of the decadent Fabulett club.
Review: Spill Your Drink – A Deaf Cabaret
A rude, riotous celebration of Scottish deaf talent for everyone to enjoy.
Review: Triple Bypass: Three Ten Minute Plays About Living for Death and Dying for Life
Three great wee plays performed with a degree of skill
Review: Almost Instinct Almost True
A fascinating insight into the insecurities around the desire to be more than a muse to one of the greatest poets of his generation.
Review: Weegie Hink Ae That?
Ye just canny whack it, sae ye cannae – pure Scottish humour that hits every funny bone you have.
Review: Truth’s a Dog that must to Kennel
'Stand up meets metaverse' - Bravo, Tim Crouch, the Fool we need to interpret our sad, new world.
Review: The Kettling
Highly effective piece of youth theatre drama ostensibly covering climate change but including a whole lot more
Review: Circus Abyssinia: Tulu
Vibrant music, excellent acrobatic skills, fast paced with colourful lights and costumes!
Review: The Queen’s Cartoonists
Animated films are enhanced by a live band performing the lush and intricate movie scores.
Review: Beneath
A highly interesting absurdist environmental performance with an intense message given air from under the ocean
Review: Boris the Third
A lighthearted telling of Boris Johnson’s less than successful acting career. Slapstick abounds!
Review: Little Git
A musical story of everyday disappointment, told by two musicians, reaching a significant age with equally significant decisions to be made.
Review: Oracle: Do You Want to See The Future?
Mentalist Lorenzo Novani reaches into the ideas and minds of the audience
Review: Ode to Joy (How Gordon Got To Go To The Nasty Pig Party)
Graphic and hilarious portrayal of life, love and friendship on the gay chem sex party scene.
Review: 9 Circles
A monster play of words and ideas that leaves you speechless. Astute, political and personal.
Review: She-Wolves
Informative story-telling about historic women rulers and how they have been represented and mis-represented through time.
Review: For Queen And Country
The British soldier who became a Parisian nightclub drag queen to spy on the Nazis. An accomplished piece.
Review: Ghosts of the Near Future
An engaging combination of heroic journey, magic show, and story-telling about life and death. Ghosts of the Near Future took place in an atmospheric fog-filled amphitheater at noon on a sunny day. A home-made brew of great integrity, creativity and enjoyment.
Review: Famous Puppet Death Scenes
"A visually appealing and brilliantly creative massacre of tiny people."
Review: Notflix: Binge
Five actors, one movie idea, a suggested setting, and off they go to improvise a musical
Review: Horrible Herstories
An attempt, in the best possible tradition to retell a history which was very much her story to tell
Review: Ahead of the Curve
A wonderful dance theatre with heart and soul and the moves to back them up.
Review: Done to Death, By Jove!
Traditional fare of the English murder mystery served wrapped in a conundrum of a puzzle with Marple, Poirot, Holmes and a far from elementary theatrical solution
Review: Classic!
A world record attempt at 42 classic texts in one go that provides joy in an uneven presentation.
Review: Pauline
Beautifully poised homage to where you come from and how you would like that ancestor to be remembered.
Review: A Eulogy for Roman
An astonishing solo show of one man’s search for meaning within himself, with audience participation.
Review: A Political Breakfast
An amusing hour in the company of three fixers giving us humorous solutions to the pressing issues of the day.
Review: Harry Potter or My Girlfriend… Who Do I Love More?
A very funny hour in the company of a comedy wizard
Review: Admiral
A compelling and important subject brought to life by the charismatic Christopher Tajah
Review: Far Gone
Emotional honesty, physical dexterity and an engrossing story fuel this extraordinary coming of age story
Review: Self Service
Original idea, well developed and crafted. Mild-mannered delivery is refreshing!
Review: Velvet Determination
A musical journey through the challenges and career development of a gifted pianist
Review: Candide
"Brimming with ideas, full-blooded and full throated performance, Candide is presented successfully in a way only Babolin theatre can achieve."
Review: Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me
A Brilliant Fringe Acting Debut in a Scintillating and Ultimately Shocking Play.
Review: Sylus 2024
A quick witted comedy improv look at a potential 2024 candidate for U.S. President
Review: One
A cultural challenge in a creative and imaginative manner which tasks our assumptions over the immigration of our politics and the politics of belief
Review: The Black Blues Brothers
An explosion of joy with the music of The Blues Brothers as a backdrop and unremitting physical wonderment as an entertaining treat.
Review: Collision
Thrilling and inventive circus with hip hop which is fast paced and leads to a thoroughly entertaining romp
Review: War of the Worlds (On a Budget)
The unmissable, definitive version of a a budget-driven War of the Worlds
Review: With all Jew respect
"a host that left me wanting to follow him out of the theatre into the bar to continue the not always kosher conversation."
Review: Move Fast and Break Things
Intriguing impactful story, characters and fascinating video and puppetry!
Review: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Imaginative production of a magical realism story with intrigue, drama and subtle humour that people of all ages can enjoy together.
Review: All Of Us
As Ken Tynan once said of another debut, I don’t think I could love someone who doesn’t love this play.
Review: Mary, Chris, Mars
Imaginative - and will appeal to families with an interest in space, astronauts and object/shadow puppetry.
Review: The Tempest
A joyous production, that without its gimmicky close, could certainly furnish a way in for many
Review: Jack Absolute Flies Again
What Richard Bean and Oliver Chris manage is homage, both to Sheridan’s shade, his early bawdy, and despite anything a memorial to those who laughed at themselves to death. A must-see.
Review: The Poison Belt
So what could a Sussex-based sci-fi tale of 1913 by Conan Doyle – a space-borne poison belt of gas that hits the earth – possibly have to do with the week of the greatest temperatures known in the UK?
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
This isn’t the most revelatory Much Ado, but the most consummate and complete for a while.
Review: Communicating Doors
An excellent revival and the best chance to see this remarkable thriller-cum-farce-cum-meditation.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
An exciting sense of being at the cusp of a new generation. There’s no knowing where this Dream might end.
Review: Dad’s Army
You feel you’ve been part of an invited audience at one of the original TV productions
Review: Shake the City
A real play bursting out of its hour-plus length; with complex interaction, uncertain journeys, each character developing a crisis of isolation only resolved by sisterhood
Review: Entwined
A superior celebration of movement highlighting that which makes us similarly different.
Review: Julius Caesar
If you’re a habitual groundling, go before this production vanishes back on tour
Review: Waitress
Halfpenny raises soaring music theatre, an ounce of gold in the throat and stars six inches above it.
Review: The Dance of Death
Highlights the truth of its bleak laughter. Humane Strindberg. Now there’s a thing.
Review: King Lear
Rarely has a Cordelia and Fool scaled such equal terms with such a Lear, rendering a kind of infinity.
