The Hunger Artist 5*****

The Hunger Artist, based on Franz Kafka’s last novel, is the story of a performer whose art is fasting for public consumption. Travelling the world, people come to watch him starve, turning his suffering into entertainment. Is he a freak, … Read More

A play of 2 Halves– 5*****

This show is located in the fans bar of Edinburgh Football club, Heart of Midlothian and is the perfect location for a play set in a local pub “The Arms”.

This is 2 interlinked plays, the first being a one … Read More

Call Me Elizabeth: From Burton to Humanitarian Guy Masterson – TTI presents Kayla Boye 5*****

Kayla Boyle gives another sparkling performance as Elizabeth Taylor in Call Me Elizabeth: From Burton to Humanitarian, an engaging sequel that explores both the actress’s tempestuous private life and her emergence as a formidable AIDS activist. The show opens with … Read More

Little Animals 4****

Paul Ready, best known to many for his television work in Motherland and Utopia, makes his playwriting and solo-performance debut with Little Animals, an intimate exploration of friendship, grief and the increasingly uncomfortable realities of the climate crisis. We are … Read More

Prophets 4****

Jack MacGregor’s Prophets takes us to the fictional island of Saint John, a tiny British Overseas Territory in the Pacific with a population of just 48. Kerris, a Scottish researcher, arrives partly to investigate prehistoric weather patterns and, more broadly, … Read More

Supposing: 4****

Zinnie Harris’s Supposing: takes the ancient Greek myth of Cassandra and drops it into a very recognisable modern world, creating an intriguing mixture of domestic comedy, psychological drama and something considerably more unsettling. We first meet Sally in a compelling … Read More

Love (5 Ways) – 3.5***

The lives, loves and relationships of 6 very different characters are opened up and fully explored in “Love (5 Ways)”. It lifts the lid on commitment, sex, monogamy and polyamory in the modern world.

Should sexual intimacy be confined … Read More

Call Me Elizabeth: From Lassie to Cleopatra – Guy Masterson – TTI presents Kayla Boyle5*****

Kayla Boyle gives a spellbinding performance in Call Me Elizabeth: From Lassie to Cleopatra, an intimate portrait of Elizabeth Taylor at a moment when her glittering public image masked considerable private turmoil.

Newsreel footage immediately adds authenticity, showing the real … Read More

The Tao of Lloyd Guy Masterson – TTI presents Dennis Trainor 4 1/2 ****

As a huge John Cusack fan, I know the 1989 film ‘Say Anything’ well, so The Tao of Lloyd immediately appealed: what exactly happened to Lloyd Dobler after the cameras stopped rolling?

Dennis Trainor Jr’s sharply written monologue provides an … Read More

Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library 4****

Jenny Lyn Bader’s Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library takes us to Berlin in 1933, shortly after the Nazis have come to power. It imagines a pivotal encounter in the early life of Hannah Arendt, who would go on … Read More