Night Bus ***stars

Exceptionally performed in sketches by accomplished actresses Linda Marlowe and Sarah-Louise Young, this show tells the story of life travelling on the night bus from the perspective of many different commuters. There are yobs, drunks, pregnant women fighting for a … Read More

The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck 4****

What got me hooked on this show was the sales pitch when they gave me their flyer on the mile. I heard at least three other people in the queue say they’d been seduced the same way, and probably more … Read More

I Killed Rasputin – 4****

I Killed Rasputin

4 stars

We’ve all heard of Rasputin, right? Even if you’re not an eager scholar of Russian revolutionary politics in the early 20th century, there’s no way you could have escaped the précis of his life performed … Read More

Split Decision by Keir McAllister 4 Star

Should I Stay or Should I Go was a massive hit for the Clash in my youth, a question posed that has no easy answers. This comedy play by Scottish comedy star Keir McAllister questions the same dilemma and in … Read More

BathTime by Ruaraidh Murray 4 Star ****

Ruaraidh Murray is a writer performer very much in the Irvine Welsh writing about the slightly seamier side of 90’s working class pals, Spike the ring leader, Billy, a more moderate trying to keep everybody under control and Joe Joe … Read More

The Inventor and The Escort 4 Star ****

This charming well written play for me is staged at a really strange time of the day. A noon start time? Yeah Really!

Jeffrey the once overweight inventor of sex appliances has set up a date with high class call girl … Read More

Inspector Norse

****

There is a beguiling charm about this parody of things Swedish in this detective comedy written and performed by Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding. There is one aspect of this production which makes it unique. Never have I seen … Read More

Minnie and Mona Play Dead

***

Minnie and Mona are two young adolescent girls who play games of ‘what if’ and use their vivid imaginations to take on scenes of fantasy, some life affirming, others evoking mental distress. As such and despite the dark humour, … Read More

Robert Golding

****

Not having seen the play Richard Parker, I have to take this Owen Thomas sequel on its own merits. It begins in a straightforward manner and fully engages as it builds up to a remarkable and chilling conclusion.

Robert … Read More

Faileontology

*

Put together a script which is unfunny, predictable, obscure and padded out along with clichéd characters and unconvincing acting and you have the ingredients for a show which fails to impress.

Set in place whose location is unknown and … Read More