James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show 3***

This show deals with the idea of time and how to use it, especially if you don’t have very much of it. An Edinburgh show seems to be the perfect metaphor for this particular kind of existential dread. An hour … Read More

Villains: A dizney in drag parody 4****

I’m a massive Disney fan! I love the fairytale stories and happily ever afters. Everyone reenacts the story’s around the princesses however no one has thought to round up the villains in these tales.

This show centres on a … Read More

John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza! 5*****

John Luke Roberts starts his show, after a bit of ‘business’ to get his audience into the mood he needs, by proposing that Edith Piaf regretted five things.

The show has no storytelling or narrative arc, being fundamentally about innumerable … Read More

BATSU! – 2.5 **’

BATSU as you will be gleefully told if attending this show is Japanese for “punishment”. The story goes that at one point in the ancient past, Batsu no Akuma, the Japanese Spirit of Punishment, was sealed within a sacred gong. … Read More

Jazz Emu: Knight Fever 4****

Jazz Emu, the arrogant, urbane and oddly 1970’s themed musical mastermind persona of Archie Henderson is an act to keep an eye on. With a strong and ever-growing online following, he’s moving from short TikTok music videos up to TV … Read More

Solve Along a Murder She Wrote 4****

For those unfamiliar with daytime television, Murder, She Wrote was a cult American crime drama series from the 1980s and ’90s. Starring the late Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer and amateur detective, the show featured a wide … Read More

Dreamgun: Film Reads – 4.5****’

Film Reads, like all the best shows, has a very simple idea that is just so perfect it sells itself. The Dreamgun team take a very well known film, rewrite the script to load it full of jokes and then … Read More

Ask A Stripper- No Holes Barred 3.5***

It is what it says on the tin! The small and intimate setting is aptly located close to Edinburgh’s strip clubs. This two woman show starring writer and performer Stacey Clare starts with some mild nudity before settling down to … Read More

Batshit 5*****

Leah Shelton has written this play as a riposte to the pathologisation of women’s mental health. This is personal for Leah, as her grandmother, Gwen, was committed to a psychiatric hospital following the death of her son. During this painful … Read More

I’m Almost There 4.5****

A beautiful piece of musical theatre conceived by Audible, the award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, I’m Almost There is a modern love story told in song and dialogue with piano, harp and bass guitar accompaniment.

New Yorker, Todd … Read More