Five Visions of the Faithful

Cambridge University A D C have been regular visitors to the Fringe for as long as I have been covering it and the company consistently produce  quality performances. This play by writer Torben Betts is not the sort of … Read More

Pierced!

With this play based on the life of Atalanta daughter of King Iasus. His Majesty wanted a son he sends her to the wilderness with a servant. She is raised by bears and becomes a supreme hunter and runner. … Read More

Sub

Sub is a one-woman play about the subject of Sado-Masochism, write by new playwright James Mainwaring together with some creative input by the actress Melissa O’Brien, who is making her Fringe debut. The play is excellently written and performed … Read More

XXX

There is no doubt that the show that is the most talked about in the Fringe this year is La Fura dels Baus and XXX. This Spanish Company have courted controversial publicity wherever they have played with this interpretation … Read More

Bedtime Stories

This play, written and directed by Oliver Lansley, is really four plays in one, all set in a bedroom, featuring four couples who really go about proving that girls are from Venus and men are from Mars. Each scene … Read More

Instant Karma

Instant Karma is the second play by ‘Leaves on the Tracks’, written by James Brough who also plays the young up and coming photographer Mac. Geoff has covered the other play ‘Last Night a DJ saved my Life’. Richard … Read More

Playback Theatre

This is a new style of show even to a Fringe veteran like me, and I must admit it wasn’t what I expected. Four actresses, a percussionist and a…. mistress of ceremonies I suppose, were on stage, and gave … Read More

Tam O’Shanter

The Arches Theatre Company present ‘Tam O’Shanter & Other Works’, the other works consist mainly of songs and poems that include the themes of drinking and sex with one or two small animals thrown inn for good measure. The … Read More

Blood Brothers

Got to the show late due to the over running of the previous show and was not allowed in.

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The Blue Room

It doesn’t seem so long ago since this play was causing an furore in the West End when Nicole Kidman starred, and again when it went on tour with Tracy Shaw and Jason Connery, and now it finds it’s … Read More