Anna

****

You have to stand all the way through this show, and it’s hot, and it’s played out, at several points, inches in front of you, yelling in your ear. It’s visceral and horrific and truly … Read More

Sex Lives of Others

****

Under the direction of Hannah Eidinow, it is a triumph of ingenuity to stage Keely Winstone’s very funny sex comedy in the small, intimate venue that is Pleasance This. The cast, also, successfully rise to the challenge in giving … Read More

The Sleeping Trees’ Odyssey

****

The three guys who make up Sleeping Trees provide a hilarious, rapid, rollercoaster retelling of Homer’s Odyssey with, it has to be admitted, huge amounts of artistic licence. Dressed all in white with no set or props, they narrate … Read More

The Three Lions

****

William Gaminara’s comedy succeeds in several ways. It is part political satire and part farce with a touch of slapstick also thrown into the mix. The action takes place over the two days in December 2010 at a hotel … Read More

The Babysitter

***

Domestic angst is the main theme of this enjoyable family comedy. Family relationships come to a head the evening Aaron, the babysitter, is hired to look after Jay and Sara’s two daughters. Nikki is aged 18 and Ri around … Read More

Each of Us

****

There is a lyrical quality about Ben Moor’s performance. His way with words is brilliantly conceived and he pushes the ironies of life to the limit. Yet his style of delivery is very emotionally restrained.

His story arises out … Read More

Pants On Fire’s Pinocchio

***

In this adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio the setting is mid-west America in the 1950’s. Mr Geppetto is a lonely and reclusive widower whose wife and child were killed in a nuclear accident. Out of despair and in … Read More

The Three Little Pigs

*****

In a personified animal world, it somehow seems appropriate that pigs make up the police force. When two, high profile cops who happen to be brothers are murdered, investigations and interrogations begin. This is the starting point for this … Read More

Threeway

****

DC Jackson’s fast-paced, comedy, indeed farce, has many twists and turns with many hilarious moments as the action unfolds. The play is set in Glasgow in Andrew and Julie’s bedroom. They see themselves as a sexually liberated couple and … Read More

A Night to Dismember

***

Storytelling comes in many forms. At one end of the spectrum are stories based on actual events and at the other end are those which are constructed out of weird imagery. Wil Greenaway’s humorous story is definitely of the … Read More