A Dependable Marriage

NUTS hail from Newcastle University and for years have been bringing good quality entertainment to the Fringe. Their offering this year is the  Caroline Wood written A Dependable Marriage. Alice, Margaret Clunie, has discovered that her sister Lucy’s, Edwina … Read More

Debbie Does Dallas – The Musical

One of the best titles to be found in the Fringe brochure this year is Debbie does Dallas – The Musical. Those of us of a certain age will no doubt remember the movie, probably the best known film … Read More

Dead Man’s Curve Ball

The Actas Company present “Dead Man’s Curve Ball” by D. B. Folkard.    It is 1963, the inaugural meeting of a support group for teenage victims of tragic automobile accidents. Is all as it seems? As Laura (Michelle Faure), … Read More

The Dating Game

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A Dark and Stormy Night

We are transported back to October, 1944. We, the audience, play the role of a studio audience to witness an evening’s entertainment – 3 Halloween playlets interspersed with some songs and commercials. Despite the flaws in the production, it … Read More

Danton’s Death

This is the first time I have seen this work by Georg Buchner written in 1835 when he was only 22 years old. I am left with two deep impressions. Firstly, it is an amazing drama written by someone … Read More

DAI (ENOUGH)

The scene is get in an Israeli cafe with a whole host of characters being interviewed by a TV journalist. We meet an actress, a proud father whose son is about to join a crack regiment, a New York … Read More

Curse of the Werewolf

There’s been a murder at Gargoyle House.  Lord Algernon has died in mysterious circumstances; was it murder or something altogether more sinister?  Join a cast of oddballs as they struggle to find the murderer and make it through the … Read More

Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions is a teenage version of the classical French ‘Les Liasons Dangeruses’ by Laclos, which was later made in to a cult film also called ‘Cruel Intentions’. The action has been transferred to a contemporary private American College … Read More

Crave

The first point to make about ‘Crave’ is that it is not conventional theatre with a storyline and character development. Rather it is a blend of words almost musical in the way that they are delivered. Four actors, two … Read More