Keepers

4 Stars ****

Keepers is an extra-ordinary combination of words, movement, sound effects, music and lighting. The successful blend gives a memorable theatrical experience. This true story is set on the Smalls lighthouse of the Welsh coast around two hundred … Read More

Jacobite Country

1 Star *

Anybody reading the Fringe programme will see this play described as ‘Comedy, Drama’. Well, the silence from the audience says it all as far as the comedy is concerned.

The whole piece is confusing. At the beginning … Read More

Your Little Princess is My Little Whore – Kitten Has Claws

*

1 Star

Oh dear. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have to write things like this, but to be fair to the public I feel I must.

This production was well attended with many people paying their hard earned money … Read More

Miss Julie – LAS Productions

**

2 Stars

Miss Julie is probably the most famous play of August Strinberg and is one that quite often makes a Fringe appearance.

The action takes place the late 1890’s, in the kitchen of Miss Julie’s father ‘The Count’ … Read More

Primadoona:- Doon MacKichan

****

4 Star

Twice Emmy winner Doon MacKichan, probably best known for writing and performing in the TV series Smack the Pony is staging her one woman show, a brief reenactment of the last three years where her life has … Read More

The Virtuous Burglar by Dario Fo

4 Stars ****

Italian playwright Dario Fo’s satirical farce is given a thoroughly satisfying and amusing treatment. It is a tale of deceit and sexual philandering by the wealthy as opposed to the straightforward way of life of a petty … Read More

Tony Tanner’s ‘Charlatan’ – SST Productions

*****

5 Stars

As a regular base line philistine with a low grade tolerance for ‘up itself prose’ and with no real grasp or devout interest in the origins of the Ballet Russes, I walked into Tony Tanner’s one man … Read More

Misconception

3 Stars ***

Dilemmas abound in Bill Dare’s well acted satire. Jimmy (Toby Longworth) and Louise (Sian Reeves) are a happily married couple in their early 40’s. They are childless through choice and circumstance. Jimmy is no lover of children. … Read More

Floozy: CalArts Festival Theater

***

3Stars

This newly written play by Ame Tofte, is set in the flat of Bista and opens with her and her man Kevion, I’m guessing at the characters name spelling as no programme was available, returning to the flat … Read More

No Child

5 Stars *****

Nilaja Sun’s performance in her own play, directed by Hal Brooks, definitely has that wow factor. She gives a master class in the art of solo performance theatre. Flawless timing and precise, demanding physical movement lead to … Read More