No Exit

Over the last few years I have seen this play based on the Jean-Paul Sartre  classic and I feel that if the play is performed well, it is a superb theatrical piece but if done poorly it’s a long … Read More

Somewhere Over The Westway

I thought reading the description in the Fringe programme that the Portobello referred to was the beach resort just outside Edinburgh, even though it states quite clearly, “sold out smash hit in London”. Set on the Portobello Road in … Read More

Absolution

In this day and age of political correctness and the uproar surrounding the Catholic Church and alleged child abuse I suppose it is not surprising that we have a play on the Fringe round this topic. Priests are dying … Read More

The Censor – Anthony Nelson

For six years Frank, Eric Robinson, has worked in a dingy office as a film censor at the lowest end of the hierarchy of the organisation and he has been asked to pass total pornography by the producer Shirley … Read More

Foreskins Lament

Greg McGee’s play lifts the lid on male team sport. Rugby is arguably the most physically confrontational of all team sports. This is reflected in the play’s high intensity. Moreover, the fact that the play is set in New … Read More

Jekyll & Hyde: A Specimen

Set in 21st Century Edinburgh, writer and director Donald Smith has convincingly updated R.L.Stevenson’s classic story. It is performed by Duncan R. Edwards and Gavin Paul, who take on two further characters, Professor McKie of the University Medical Faculty … Read More

Not Everything is Significant

Ben Moor performs his own one man play in a style that is both gentle and compelling. It is an exquisitely written piece full of weird, absurd and comic illusions. The central character is a writer of biographies who … Read More

St Nicholas  by  Conor McPherson

A jaded theatre critic is bemoaning the passing of the torrid height of his career, another sad production by another washed out colleague yet on stage one bright shining star, a talented young nubile spark of hope. Plus the … Read More

After The End

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The Chinese State Circus

The Chinese State Circus is a beautiful and elegant show which really gives you an insight into eastern culture over the years.  The show is divided into two halves.  The first half leads us through the entertainment offered to … Read More