The South Afreakins – Impi Theatre Company 4****

Robyn Paterson gives a tour de force performance in this one hour play. Playing both the parts of South African husband and wife Helene and Gordon, she flits between the scatty Helene and the stolid Gordon with remarkable ease (the … Read More

Doubting Thomas 3***

Doubting Thomas

This piece of devised theatre based on the writings of Thomas McCrudden, an ex underworld enforcer in Glasgow is engaging, relevant and important.

The cast who, working in director Jeremy Weller’s signature framework, devised the show together, … Read More

Just An Ordinary Lawyer – Tayo Aluko and Friends 4****

Just an Ordinary Lawyer is written and performed by the immensely talented Tayo Aluko. The play charts the life of Tunji Sowande, a Nigerian who pursues his life dream of studying and practising law in London. The narrative is enhanced … Read More

World Without Us – Ontroerend Goed 5*****

The staging of World Without Us is stark. The auditorium is cloaked in black curtains and there is a solitary tower. At first we hear disembodied voices with welcome messages and then a lone narrator dressed in black arrives on … Read More

Begin Again – American High School Theatre Festival – 3***

The only certainty in Oskar and Thea’s lives is that nothing is guaranteed. The play follows their unlikely friendship, as they struggle to navigate their families and uncertain futures. Begin Again explores the healing power of music and the hope … Read More

Mule – Omnibus 4***

Mule is a play by Kat Woods based on the real life arrest and imprisonment of the drug mules Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum who were recently released from their Peruvian prison. Two actresses Aoife Lennon and Edith Poor play … Read More

Jonny & The Baptists: Eat The Poor 4****

Jonny & The Baptists: Eat The Poor

I went expecting something more sombre – I had expected politics, music, to be mildly amused, and probably to be left with some residual middle-class guilt and angst. What I hadn’t expected was … Read More

Hess – 4****

An old man shambles onto the stage and reveals himself as Rudolf Hess. What follows is a mesmerising hour and 15 minutes as Hess (expertly played by Derek Crawford Munn) attempts to explain and justify his actions during World War … Read More

The Interference – Pepperdine Scotland 4****

This hard hitting piece of drama written by Lynda Radley has been brought to Edinburgh by the students of Pepperdine University. It is based on actual reported incidences of rape at university campuses in the US. The drama centres on … Read More

Trumpageddon – 4***

This was an amusing audience with the frankly terrifying Donald Trump (brilliantly portrayed by Simon Jay.) As soon as he walked on his stage with his bright orange face, floppy hair and facial tics I knew this was going to … Read More