The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project – 4****

This play, written by John Jiler, recounts the amazing connection between the seminal Billie Holliday hit ‘Strange Fruit’ and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg – the couple sentenced to death for passing on top secret documents regarding atomic bombs to the Russians. … Read More

Shortlist – 5*****

Two writers, Houghton and Higgins, are authors in town for the annual book festival, but most importantly they have both been shortlisted for the annual book prize.

What ensues is an hour of razor-sharp erudition, as Houghton, … Read More

Appraisal – 4****

As the strains of Sheena Easton singing 9 to 5 dwindle, Tim Marriot (actor and writer) appears on the stage and grabs a golf club to practise his swing in the privacy of his executive office. A knock … Read More

Polko – 4****

Polko is a play set within the confines of a car. There are three main protagonists – Joe, the car owner, Emma his erstwhile schoolfriend and Peter the previous owner of the car. Of the three, Joe appears to be … Read More

Yippee Ki Yay (The Die Hard Parody) 4.5****

This show title needs no introduction or perhaps I’m being biased towards a certain age group. Obviously based on the Hollywood blockbuster Die Hard but with a cast of one (Darrel Bailey), playing all the main characters. The question was, … Read More

24, 23, 22 – 4****

Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up with the well known acts at the big venues and miss some excellent performances at the smaller venues, this show certainly falls into that category.

On arrival the cast were already on the … Read More

Trainspotting Live 5*****

I don’t know what I’ve just seen. But I know I loved it. The show takes place deep in the bowels of the EICC. Had we not been supplied with glow sticks at the front door you might be forgiven … Read More

Mustard – 5*****

When E receives a call from her former lover, she drops everything in Ireland to rush over to London to see him. They have been apart for almost a year and, as a result, she has endured a period of … Read More

Raft 4****

Raft deals with abuse, but it’s sensitive and respectful and gentle with its subject, and the central sea-monster metaphor means it can focus on the experience of the women involved without giving any more attention to the monster than … Read More

Boris the Third 4****

Pleasance Courtyard – Pleasance One

Until 29th August

Something for the Weekend take us back to the cloisters at Eton School in 1982, when an 18-year-old Boris Johnson took the lead in Richard III, without bothering to learn his lines. … Read More