Punch: Little Dog Productions

4 Star

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Initially set in The Cock Tavern Covent Garden where John a comedian ‘with no material’ is playing an offensive set, where he is later arrested.

Cut to a cell and Anne the harassed social worker sets about … Read More

Love All

****

Performers and co-writers Aideen Wylde and Tadhg Hickey recount a true tale, but with some artistic licence, of tennis and murder set more than a century ago. The action centres on Vere St Ledger Goold, form Cork and of … Read More

The Lonely One

****

Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine is the inspiration for this suspense drama. It is set in 1928, in Midwest America in summer time when the days are hot and the nights are dark and cloudless.

A good suspense has a … Read More

The Hand-Me-Down People

**

The difficulty for a student production in the Fringe is that they are going to be measured against so many professional companies. Thus, there is the need to have something out of the ordinary to make it stand out … Read More

Jubilate! by Rosalind Adler

4 Star

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There is no doubt that Rosalind Adler is an excellent character actress and this play gives her plenty of scope to showcase these skills as she portrays five women whose life interlink with each other.

Anna, the … Read More

Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade

***

Breathing Corpses is a thriller acted out in five scenes. The opening scene shows a young hotel maid who discovers a dead body of a man covered in a sheet, who has presumably committed suicide.

As the scenes are … Read More

How’s About That Then?

**

Garry Roost plays Jimmy Savile in Bernie C Byrnes play. For me, it was a superficial treatment. Attired in garish gear, Garry Roost does make a passable impression of sounding and looking like Jimmy Savile with his mannerisms and … Read More

A Strange Wild Song

****

The story is set in two time zones. It begins with three boys playing in the ruins of a French village early in World War II. This is played for its full comedy value and displays the antics of … Read More

Unmythable

****

Temple Theatre’s concoction of Ancient Greek myths and legends is crammed full of dynamic action and imagination. The result is a fun show for all ages. Throughout their performance, Troels Hagen Findsen, Paul O’Mahony and Will Pinchin successfully meet … Read More

Monkey Bars

*****

The concept of this production is deceptively simple: children’s words about their lives are spoken by adults acting out adult situations. There’s the interview of the famous person, the date, the job interview, the politicians speechifying. There … Read More