COMA 4****

COMA is the latest show from DARKFIELD, a company who specialise in immersive experiences using cutting edge sound technology. The show is housed in a shipping container fitted out with rows of bunks, which make you feel like you’re in … Read More

A Table Tennis Play – Walrus/Theatre Royal Plymouth – 4****

In a wonderfully bleak, vaulted venue, a table tennis table takes centre stage with a pit full of table tennis balls separating the audience from the stage. The setting is an old basement air raid shelter under a big house … Read More

Art Heist – Poltergeist – 4****

Three different burglars prepare to steal a painting from an art gallery, all for different reasons and all by adopting different methods of entry. Rosa is disguised as a chef and manages to gain access through the service entrance to … Read More

Musik 5*****

Frances Barber provides a stunning performance as Billie Trix, a dried up, drug addled, narcissistic rock star.

She enters the stage in true rock star fashion, dressed in a black cape with a black eye patch over one eye, (not … Read More

Hughie 5*****

Hughie is a Eugene O’Neill one act play.

Mike McShane is Charlie, the hotel desk clerk and Phil Nichol plays Erie; the wise cracking, fast talking professional gambler. This is a shabby New York hotel. The faded grandeur and the … Read More

Silence in Court – Edinburgh Little Theatre – 3***

On arriving at Hill Street theatre, we are given tokens for a free drink and as we wait in the queue for our drink, a court usher bellows out that our presence is required in court. Entering the venue we … Read More

Nightclubbing – Rachael Young – 4****

With a live thumping soundtrack provided by the excellent Leisha Thomas and Mwen Rukandema and a black volcanic moonscape on stage, Rachael Young slowly emerges ready and dressed to go ‘nightclubbing’. Through spoken word, singing and movement she entwines the … Read More

Einstein – Pip Utton – 5*****

This was my first experience of festival stalwart Pip Utton’s work and I find myself wondering what took me so long? As Albert Einstein, Pip gives a delicately nuanced performance, gently asking us to realise that imagination (which is boundless) … Read More

Pizza Shop Heroes – Phosphoros Theatre – 4****

Phosphoros Theatre bring this crowd pleaser of a show to Edinburgh telling the story of 4 child refugees from Eritrea, Albania and Afghanistan – Tewodros Aregawe, Goitom Fesshaye, Emirjon Hoxhaj and Syed Haleem Najibi – and their treacherous journey to … Read More

Trying It On – David Edgar – 4****

The stage is set like an office, complete with desk, filing cabinet and piles of cardboard boxes. David Edgar is wandering around and begins slowly by introducing us to the stage manager, who is sitting at the desk looking totally … Read More