The Aluminum Show

Original, slick and stunning are my immediate impressions of this show. The show’s creators have breathed life into a metallic element. They have imagined an almost dream like quality to the dance and puppetry sequences. Even the audience, at … Read More

Confessions & Obsessions of a Thirtysomething Divorcee

This one woman play written and performed by Melanie Sherwood is the story of a thirty something divorcee on the morning of an ex’s wedding to which she is invited. Xara Fox is the character and we first meet … Read More

The Good Doctor

Although I was aware of Neil Simon as a play write I was previously unaware of this piece based on a series of short stories by Anton Chekov so was intrigued to see what a collaboration of the two … Read More

Kidnapped:  When Kilts Were Banned

Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel is an entertaining, if somewhat speedy, romp through one of Scotland’s great fictional stories. Actors Duncan R Edwards as David Balfour and Gavin Paul as Alan Breck Stewart take on the … Read More

Old Girls

Old Girls is a contemporary black comedy written by the director, Donald Marcus, in association with Ted Marcus. Set in London, the action takes place in the flat of the assured and sophisticated Mallory (Keira Duffy) and her husband … Read More

Scaramouche  Jones

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Ane  Wee Touch O’ Class 

Ane  Wee Touch O’ Class   by   Rikki Fulton Leitheatre have a winning formula which I have enjoyed over many years. They stage a full two act Scottish comedy. Celebrating 25 years on the Fringe and playing to packed houses … Read More

Correspondence

Claire McDonald’s new play belongs to the genre of experimental theatre. It is a series of riddles. A programme is issued before the play begins which does help to set out the scenario. The music as the audience take … Read More

The Graduate

Those of us above a certain age will remember this as a major movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross and later became a stage play in the West End and on Broadway. Blue Dye Productions have … Read More

Lichentongue

Thora Linchentongue (Emily North) seems to have it all, a TV show, a loving partner, a dependable assistant and even a stalker. Then along came Barang Lal (Krupa Pattani) and her mind reading computer. Suddenly Lichentongue’s deepest darkest secrets … Read More