STAY – 5*****

Written and performed by Sally Brookes, Stay is an intensely personal and emotional journey through love, grief and the difficult business of learning not to run away.

Brookes introduces us to a version of herself who is fiercely self-sufficient, super-controlled … Read More

About a Bogle 4.5☆☆☆☆

It’s great to hear so many Scottish accents on a stage, and even more delightful that they’re sharing this perfectly formed wee gem of a story. It is in fact (spoiler) two stories, the bogle’s, and the musicians’, though that’s … Read More

Bad Boy – 4****

Daniel Adolfsson is an immensely likeable presence in Bad Boy, a warm, funny and ultimately hopeful tale about an actor for whom life seems determined not to follow the script.

Adolfsson plays Jack, a struggling performer recently separated from his … Read More

Pilate: The Lost Gospel – 5*****

Maxwell Caulfield gives a mesmerising performance as Pontius Pilate in Michael Punter’s compelling Pilate: The Lost Gospel.

The play gives an imagined opportunity for one of history’s most maligned figures to give us his side of the story of the … Read More

Becoming Dr Ruth – 5*****

On an Uncharacteristically boiling hot afternoon in Edinburgh, I was reluctant to step into the small busy portacabin, I have never been so glad to go against my instincts.

The setting was the living room of Dr Ruths New York … Read More

My Life Is A Sonnet – 4****

My Life is a Sonnet is a warm and engaging piece of storytelling written and performed by Eric Daniel Weiner.

Charlie Katz is a man with regrets, and we hear the story of his personal journey in life in the … Read More

28.06.1980 (or How A Fake Version of Deep Purple Brought Rock Music to Mexico) 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a bizarre true story. Well, mostly.

Based on his excellent book Stealing Deep Purple, McLean classes his show as a live documentary, primarily about Deep Purple and the strange events of 1980, when an unauthorised version of the … Read More

The Plot 3***

The Gunpowder Plot is surely one of the richest episodes in British history for a playwright to get their teeth into, and Emma Howlett’s The Plot takes an imaginative approach to the familiar story. Set in the aftermath of the … Read More

Slay – 5*****

Writer-performer Lois-Amber Toole gives a beguiling performance as Kit in Slay, a funny, touching and increasingly revealing exploration of trauma, self-worth and what we need to do to survive in this modern world of doom scrolling.

Kit has escaped Newcastle … Read More

Deluge 3★★★

Deluge sits somewhere between interpretive dance, spoken word and theatre, with sprinkles of comedy. Created by Gabi Flares and Andrea Maciel, it’s a magic-realist exploration of grief inspired by a break-up.

There’s a further part to the blurb which is … Read More