In Other Words 4.5☆☆☆☆

Sometimes a show’s blurb doesn’t do it justice. This is a clever, smart and engaging piece of theatre, and not the dry, earnest show-about-words that I was half expecting. It is about words, but it’s also about how we use … Read More

Bog Witch – 5*****

The packed audience at the Traverse for Bog Witch shows just how popular Briony Kimmings has become with Fringe audiences – and it isn’t difficult to see why. She is a wonderfully polished, warm and engaging performer who quickly has … Read More

boobytrapped -4.5****

boobytrapped takes a wonderfully outrageous premise and turns it into something that is not only frequently hilarious but also surprisingly touching.

A chance meeting in a nightclub sees gay man Kevin instantly attracted to Simon. The flirtation is going … Read More

Spare Room 4.5****

At first glance, Spare Room could almost be mistaken for a ‘Men Behaving Badly’ scenario. An unsuspecting young woman moves into a flat with a group of male slobs who don’t even possess a kettle or toaster, and initially there are plenty … Read More

Gridlock 4.5****

Annika Foster is a Texas born actress last seen on stage in Los Angeles, she brings her heartwarming true to life show to Glasgow as a prerequisite for the forth coming Edinburgh Fringe.

The show begins with Annika and Gunnar … Read More

The Fifth Elephant : Pleasance Theatre 7th December 4****

Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant is another chapter in his opus Discworld/City Watch legacy. The plot involved Commander Vimes, sent to Uberwald on a diplomatic mission. With his merry band of misfits he must navigate the theft of the sacred … Read More

Shitbag – 5*****

Melbourne’s Hayley Edwards strides into the centre of the stage and immediately undercuts any expectation of polite Fringe theatre. She explains she’s just had great sex, but needs to apologise in advance — because she’s about to stink the place … Read More

Imprints – 4****

The Palimpsest Project have engineered something quietly extraordinary with Imprints — a work that sidesteps cliché and lands somewhere between live cinema, theatre, and a fever-dream scrapbook. It takes on the underlit corners of fragile memory and art of piecing … Read More

Bonding-Seabright Live presents Cyril Blake 3 1/2 ***

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“Bonding” is a tale as old as time, fathers and sons, relationships, trust, and breakdowns.  Cyril Blakes show removes the sticking plaster on the relationship between young Stephen Lewis and his dad, when the one thing they have in … Read More

Baron Vordenburg’s Guide to the Paranormal – Dark Pony Productions 3***

Baron Vordenburg is the world’s leading expert in one very specific thing – hunting and killing monsters. More specifically, vampires. And in the special seminar version of his Guide to the Paranormal, he promises to tell you how.

A play … Read More