Genre: Storytelling 0
Review: The Brilliance of Broken Glass: Button
Endearing and life-affirming, whatever this is, it’s exactly what it needs to be.
Review: A Paper Orchestra
A thoughtful, literary solo show that bridges prose and theatre, inviting audiences into stories and reflections on parenting, masculinity, and the need to be truly seen.
Review: Gimme A Sign!
A Highly Energetic, Humorous But Sensitive Combination of Comedy and Storytelling
Review: Michael Elsener: How to Live in Paradise
Swiss satire meets soulful storytelling in a sharp, multilingual journey through politics, identity, and paradise lost.
Review: 15:10 To Yuma
An engaging personable show about growing up in the hottest place in the United States - Smith's got great stories
Review: Daniel Cainer: Topical
A gentle, companionable hour of music and storytelling that feels like being welcomed into Daniel Cainer’s living-room.
Review: NIUSIA
A powerful, multi-layered journey through three generations of formidable women, as one unpacks her grandmother’s legacy and her own Jewish identity.
Review: The Lost Priest
A raw, searching solo show unpacking Jewish identity with intimacy and candor.
Review: Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak
this seasoned comedy anthropologist works her magic once more with her quirky story of ordinary people taking an extraordinary stand
Review: Jena Friedman: Motherf*cker
Seeing this show once is not enough. Although you will catch all of the jokes, you will want to hear them again – and again. Every line hits. Friedman is so intuitive, such a great observer of human behaviour and insightful analyst of the political landscape that you want to not only remember her stories but the way in which she imparts them.
Review: Kate, Allie, and the ’86 Mets
Barry’s experience in storytelling and newness to performance creates something honest, assured, and beautifully tender on the stage
Review: Darren Leo: Good Engrish
A sharp, funny, and heartfelt blend of storytelling and stand-up exploring one family’s leap from Taiwan to Canada.
Review: That’s Why Mums Go to Switzerland
A stunning portrait of three generations of women and the impossible weight one must carry.
Review: Ohio
A celebratory true story told through indie folk about losing faith and finding hope in the darkest of places.
Review: Queer Folks’ Tales
Two hours flies by in the hands of a fine host and consumately skilled storytellers
Review: Seeking a Pen Pal for the End of the World
Natural storyteller Jen’s elegant drag character is realistic, fanciful and strong. Performed with sincerity and panache!
Review: 5 Mistakes That Changed History
A range of mistakes to delight even the most ardent history fan.
Review: Lily Phillips: Crying
Delivering double-punch jokes, Crying explores what happens when the birth of your child doesn’t quite match what Instagram promised.
Review: Heading Into Night – a clown ode…(forgetting)
Searching through fragments in a mind that is evaporating - one laugh at a time! Unforgettable!
Review: For Steve and Furtherfield – A Dance Showcase
The resplendent coil of the human condition - fragile, simple, beautiful...
Review: The Rubbish Puppets!
Trash Transformed! Getting out of bed can be uneventful but not for this teenager - prepare to see trash become treasure...Introducing 'The Rubbish Puppets.'
Review: Beth & Josie EXPOSED: F*&# De$antis
A stand-up comedy show that is a big middle finger to DeSantis.
Review: Lula Mebrahtu I Am – OommoO
Everything you’ve heard is true. Lula Mebrahtu is memserising, and I Am – OommoO like its creator has vast potential.
Review: Goodbye Erdogan
A deeply engaging show about a small man overwhelmed by the seismic changes in modern Turkish society.
Review: Dear Billy
love letter to the Bin Yin, from the people of Scotland, his people, lovingly curated and performed by Gary McNair.
Review: ARI: The Spirit of Korea
Unforgettable - infectiously exceptional - The glorious family story of father and daughter, Shin ki-mok and Ari.
Review: Hero/Banlaoch
The combination of imagery and physicality are all important, as is a rapport with the audience. O’Brien has all of these qualities in spades.
Review: Puddles and Amazons
A queer coming of age story, with a soundtrack partially created by the audience.
Review: Precious Cargo
Precious Cargo brings to light a key part of history that must not be forgotten.
Review: James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show.
A Master storyteller completes his latest trilogy in exuberant, gripping style.
Review: A History of Fortune Cookies
A naturally sweet and thoughtful show with the takeaway of a handmade, heart-shaped morsel enfolding your own fortune message.
Review: Super Second Rate
This show is an hour of first-rate – not second rate – stunning cello performance, beautiful singing, compelling storytelling, and humour.
Review: Why am I (still) like this?
A fascinating expose of finding out you are ADHD and female at 30.
Review: A Giant on the Bridge
Lyrical gig theatre finding the soft hidden stories from tough prison lives
Review: Queer Folks’ Tales
Entertaining, enlightening, emotive show that can not fail to make us think and feel, it’s a good thing,
Review: Half Man//Half Bull: Daedalus
Exhilarating and cathartic theater- if you can see only one thing this year- see Half Man//Half Bull.
Review: Dave Ahdoot – Ethnically Ambiguous
This is effectively a TED talk with lots of good laughs – it lifts the lid on a world that not many have direct experience of and is held together by a big, warm personality.
Review: Half Man//Half Bull: Theseus
Exhilarating and cathartic theater- if you can see only one thing this year- see Half Man//Half Bull.
Review: An American Love Letter to Edinburgh
An unassuming American storyteller comes to the stage with the story of another American in Edinburgh two hundred and fifty years earlier. Charming and informative!
Review: Abrasion
If high school health class had been this entertaining, I would have paid far more attention.
Review: The Kate Bush Story
Hannah Richards brings emotion while exuding humility, embodying the essence of Kate Bush
Review: Jessie Cave: An Ecstatic Display
The show exudes the multitude of Cave’s interests and talents as a writer, performer, illustrator and puppeteer.
Review: Women’s Writes
We’ve been lucky to sit in on the first stage of a very promising conversation collaboration, and theatre piece.
Review: Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
Nineteenth century actor and impresario is brought to life by Mark Stratford
Review: J’ai un Bleu
J’ai un Bleu manages to covey through movement what words simply cannot express. The objectification of the female form.
Review: Lived Fiction
Unique, spellbinding, groundbreaking; above all makes everyone more alive to the possibilities of being human.
Review: Divine Ride…..or Wait?
An immersive, thrilling, and thoughtful experience that calls on the artist in all of us.
Review: Gerald Dickens Performs a Christmas Carol
In stripping down everything to the text and the performer, we are reminded of the proficiency of both, and its a truly delightful thing to experience.
Review: Men Talking
The end, as it inevitably must be, is a way of recollecting emotion with emotion. An inspiring act of witness, before others, and beyond ourselves.
Review: This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Based on the writing of poet Tadeusz Borowski and the paintings of Arnold Daghani This Way For The Gas bears explosive witness to shape the pulse of that post-Holocaust world. Bill Smith, Angi Mariano and their colleagues have wrought an enormous service. In the last great reprise of 'Never' we realise we're seeing the finale of an emerging masterpiece.
