Like A Virgin

This play by Gordon Steel was first performed in 1995 by the Hull Truck Theatre Company, and I witnessed their performance in The Assembly Rooms that year. The major difference with this production was the lack of acting space … Read More

The Phone Book Live!

Ok why bring in guests to read out of a phone book?  Apparently "they say truly great performers can read the  phone book and make it entertaining" so Stage D’Or productions have done just that! On Friday 25th August … Read More

Steel Magnolias

With the current vogue in staging plays based on major movies, it is no real surprise that this ‘Chick-Flick’ has also had the treatment. This play written by Robert Harling, is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour, set in a … Read More

Wasp

Some performances have a sting in the tail, this one had it lived up to its name ‘Wasp’ should surely have been one of those! Sadly all I was left with was a Pain! I overheard the comment “ … Read More

Andy’s Promise

NUTS are a group that attend the Fringe on a yearly basis and it is assured that their performances are always of a high quality, and this years production written and directed by Edward Berresford is certainly upto previous … Read More

Chanbara

Not that I am usually in to films but I did watch ‘Kill Bill 2’ with a friend and admit to laughing from start to finish at the improbable fight scenes. The star killed hundreds of people with only … Read More

Equus

Cancelled!

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I Can’t Believe it’s not Goddard

The scene is in place as one enters the space, a film company with no budget is filming, or not, an epic and we the extra’s, or should that be background artistes are primed to be part of this … Read More

Lolita

This is more like the Act Provocateur International I have become used to. Never afraid to take a chance, Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial piece has been adapted into 55 minutes by Victor Sobchak and Andy McQuade and given a late … Read More

The Pier Glass

The Young Pleasance celebrates its 10th birthday with the launch of young Pleasance Scotland, the creation of a graduate ensemble and the return of the award-winning show ‘The Pier Glass’. Set in 1865 we follow the adventures of a … Read More