The escalating critical acclaim they have met with since their debut album release in 2007 has encouraged a steamroller of live shows and song releases by five-strong traditional m…
Comedian Martha McBrier’s first foray into children’s theatre betrays none of the fledgling anxiety that is often found in even the most experienced children’s performers.
Showcasing everyone from British pole dancing champions to bluegrass bands and a ukulele-wielding redhead called Simmy Starfish (who flashes us with a Support Pussy Riot badge), Au…
The remarkable energy with which Unmythable retells the dozen or so Greek myths lucky enough to receive its attention can be seen manifested in the floods of sweat its three actors…
The 2012 edition of Strictly Songtime’s film song series for the Edinburgh Fringe was organised around the theme of Oscar-winning music.
When it comes to quirk, Recent Tragic Events definitely lives up to its creator’s other work.
It seems a shame that effort should so hurt a production, but the illusion of ease is critical to cabaret especially when the lead is supposed to be a beguiling and sexually emanci…
Amy Abler’s hour long one woman piano cabaret bonanza is difficult to evaluate because, despite all its apparent flaws, it still seems to endear itself to its tiny audiences.
When Mat Ricardo first opens his show at The Voodoo Rooms he seems to be more a stand up comedian than a Vaudevillian.
It seems like a disaster waiting to happen, giving a huge cast a tiny budget and a drab church to perform in.
It is no extra-curricular activity to put on a play about the Holocaust.
Trying to evaluate FAT requires a defetishisation of control as the looked-for quality in a performance.
As cushy executives in Hollywood studios were sat making up their minds which of our favourite DC/Marvel comics could be transformed into this year’s predictable multi-million do…
An hour-long monologue delivered by director turned writer/actor Joe Douglas, Educating Ronnie is an autobiographical exploration of Douglas’ unending relationship with Ronnie, a…
Wheatly and Hansen’s repertoire was a difficult one and the two singers approached it with due caution.
“Aam gonnae sin’ a wee tune in gàidhlic.
Moving dexterously between paranoid nightmare sequences and kitsch music numbers, You Obviously Know What I’m Talking About tells the story of nervous recluse Winfield Scott Bori…
Considering that Alternative Sex Education itself calls attention to the cooperative (Lashings of Ginger Beer Time) that produced it and whose principles it is deeply embedded in, …
Despite the simplicity of their formula - a slapstick two person comedy playing out a traditional British heist gone wrong - Halo Theatre’s The Tale of Nada succeeds neither in f…
In an age when female erotica has become the vogue genre of easy reading, it is unsettling to be reminded of the power of its predecessor in popular literature: the domestic drama.