Sluts With Consoles 3***

Are you a gamer? Is there a gamer in your life? Do you know what they get up to?  Sluts With Consoles digs deep into the world of gaming and how it’s changed over the years.

From harmless hand held … Read More

Hold the Line  4****

Hold The Line is a sharply written two-hander, an unflinching look at the emotional strain of working on the NHS 111 frontline. Performed in the brick-vaulted confines of Bunker 2 at the Pleasance, with the audience gathered tightly around, … Read More

Consumed  4****

Consumed is a pitch-black comedy by Karis Kelly that brings four generations of Northern Irish women together in a domestic kitchen for matriarch Eileen’s 90th birthday. Her daughter Gillian hosts the gathering in her home, where she also cares … Read More

How To Become A Movie Star? – 4****

Sarah Jane Lafferty is the writer and performer of this brand new one woman show. She is a born raconteur, and her conversational tone draws you in right from the start.  As a rather precocious child in Ireland, she … Read More

A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery: The Death of a Great Detective  4****

A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery is a playful, interactive whodunit from immersive theatre company Highly Suspect, known for their inventive murder mystery formats. This time, Sherlock Holmes is apparently dead, but the first case at hand is the murder of … Read More

Swan? Lauren Brady and HEYwire Theatre 4.5 ****

Any audience member hoping to spend an hour in thrall to an exquisite ballet recital beware! Lauren Brady’s Swan? certainly pirouettes around the stage with aplomb, but she is equally likely to ignite an e-cigarette and throw up a furball. … Read More

A Cold Day in Hell  3*

A Cold Day in Hell is a powerful, but demanding piece of theatre, performed with relentless intensity by Nerses Avetisyan. Staged in a relatively large theatre, but unfortunately playing to a very small audience the day that I saw it, … Read More

Nick it for Munich 4****

In the hotbox basement of Greenside, something’s being fermented — and not just sweat. It’s hope, desperation, and that unmistakably Scottish cocktail of banter, heart and sheer bloody-mindedness.

Nick It for Munich is a high-octane, one-man play about Jamie Forsyth, … Read More

Single Use – 4****

In the compact, but atmospheric Bunker 3, the small but appreciative audience were treated to an accomplished fringe debut by Verity Mullan who wrote and performed this new play.

Single Use tells the story of Ella, a delightfully scatty woman … Read More

Brainsluts 4****

Brainsluts is a sharp, well-paced ensemble piece set in the sterile, faintly oppressive world of a clinical drug trial. Over five consecutive Sundays, four strangers – Yazz, Mitch, Duggan and Bashiber gather to participate in a psychoactive study, each driven … Read More