Green & Blue @ Summerhall
2019-08-09
One of the challenges of staging a piece of verbatim theatre is to charge the testimonies with just the rightContinue Reading
Beep Boop @ Assembly George Square
2019-08-08
Similar to Le Fils du Grand Réseau whose titular prop of a Fishbowl is used as a metaphor for theContinue Reading
The Shark Is Broken @ Assembly George Square Studios
2019-08-08
The shark may be broken, but make no mistake about it, as Robert Shaw (played by his real-life son Ian)Continue Reading
Bible John @ Pleasance Courtyard
2019-08-06
Why is that that so many women, perhaps most, are engulfed by fear when they wait at a bus stop,Continue Reading
Myra’s Story @ Assembly Rooms
2019-08-06
It is ironic, and yet inadvertently fitting, that Brian Foster’s award-winning tale of the street drinker Myra McLaughlin – performedContinue Reading
COMEDY REVIEW: The House
2018-08-13
Its true buying or selling a house can be a stressful time for anyone. But the Redmonds and the FishersContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Frank Carson: If I Didn’t Laugh I’d Cry
2018-08-08
With a stage the size of a postage stamp, the Baillie Room on The Mound is a perfect fit forContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: A Joke
2018-08-08
To paraphrase the debonair Denis Norden: it’ll be all-white on the night. At least it is for the Scotsman, EnglishmanContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Really Want To Hurt Me
2018-08-07
The year is 1984. And the world of a nameless fourteen-year-old schoolboy from Exeter is as nightmarish as that imaginedContinue Reading