Peter Pan on Ice – Wild Rose Productions- Alhambra Theatre Dunfermline

The great J M Barrie classic novel Peter Pan is given a rather special treatment in this production currently touring and I have to admit it is an amazing spectacle. I managed to catch up with this at Dunfermline’s Alhambra … Read More

Stand Comedy Club 25 November 2010

It was the night that the Christmas lights were turned on in ‘The Athens of the North’ and to say the weather was cold would have been an understatement. However, I was as warm as anything, sitting in The Stand … Read More

Wicked Wenches – Stand Comedy Club – 2 November

With the clocks going back last weekend, the weather cold, windy and damp it should have been a pretty bleak November evening in Edinburgh shouldn’t it? Well maybe in some parts, but it was anything but at The Stand Comedy … Read More

Stand Comedy Club – 26 October

It was a unusual event that occurred at the Stand last night. I, along with a hundred and twenty or so other souls, went to the Tuesday night gig to see the legendry Ed Byrne gracing the stage … Read More

Dracula Adapted by Liz Lochhead Sell A Door Theatre Company

Take one of the most often told tales in modern times, adapted by one of the best Scottish playwrights and staged by one of the better up-and-coming young theatre companies and you’d be in line for a cracking night out … Read More

The Oxford Imps

***

3 Stars

Take a troupe of six impro actors,  one MC and one keyboard player add an enthusiastic audience and some unlikely suggestions and the scene is set for this lunchtime production.

The Imps have been around on the … Read More

Sammy J – Skinny Man, Modern World

*** 3 Stars

Australian Sammy J bounds on to the stage full of energy at the beginning of his show, all 58 kilos of him. After introducing himself to several members of the audience, Sammy launched into a story of … Read More

Des Bishop – My Dad Was Nearly James Bond

*****

5 Stars

Irish-American comedian Des Bishop was born in London to an English father and Irish mother. He was raised in Queens, New York until the age of 14 when he was kicked out of school and sent to … Read More

The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper

*****

5Stars

This is not the first time I have seen The Wau Wau Sisters perform in Edinburgh. Hell no!! So I was a little prepared for the maniacal mayhem that was surely going to be on the menu for … Read More

Oh, My Green Soap Box

*** 3 stars

Lucy Foster’s performance using a variety of theatrical techniques is intriguing. Her starting point is her concern for global warming and the consequent melting of the ice caps. The drama of this disaster is seen through the … Read More