Articles by Allana Isaacs

As You Like It

‘As You Like It’ is one of those Shakespeare plays that has eluded me and Sedos Theatre’s production was perhaps the best way to be introduced to this play.

The Tempest

The Tempest is a play about magic and mystery - the soul and the nature of performance - believed by many to be Shakespeare’s last ever play, thus signalling his farewell to the …

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Review
★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2012

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the ultimate novel about art and performance, the struggle between fantasy and pleasure, closeted homosexuality and the price of beaut…

Tricity Vogue’s Ukulele Cabaret – Free

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

Tricity Vogue gets her kicks from having somebody strum her ukulele that sits on top of her head.

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

The six players that make up the Milk Monitors attempt to bring to life those Jane Austen novels which history has forgotten.

Out of the Blue

A wave of all-male a cappella groups has come to the forefront, appearing in all manner of reality shows including Britain’s Got Talent, which last year featured the Oxford group…

Andy and Mike's... Tick Tock Time Machine

Andy Day, of Cbeebies fame, and Mike James deserve a standing ovation for their efforts to save parents from having to entertain their children on a rainy Sunday morning in Edinbur…

Me Before Marilyn

Review
★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2012

Me Before Marilyn is the untold story of Norma Jean Baker.

Eurydice

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

The classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is given a modern twist in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation, here performed by UCLU Runaground.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Everything about this production of The Talented Mr Ripley saw Oxford High School, as part of the American High School Theatre Festival, excels.

Ford and Akram: Bamp!

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Louise Ford and Yasmine Akram have a sense of warmth about them that means you can’t help but like them.

Billy Liar

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

Billy Fisher is young and idealistic, constantly searching for something better for himself and dreaming of a job beyond his undertaker’s office.

DeadBadgers Sketchy Bits

Review
★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

DeadBadger comprises of Jimbo Dryden and Mathew Lloyd who aim to entertain with a series of sketches, with mixed success.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

On walking in to the theatre to see The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, I was handed a programme.

FunBags present Unusual Suspects

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2012

Fun Bags are four very funny women.

Double Edge's Almost Nothing to Do with Frogs

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

Double Edge’s Almost Nothing to Do with Frogs is a witty modern interpretation, and sometimes parody, of the Ancient Greek play The Frogs by Aristophanes.

Not My Cup of Tea

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2012

The 1970s.

Swing A Midsummer Night's Dream

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

Courage Performers, a youth performing arts club from Wiltshire, presents a very strong rendition of the Shakespeare classic ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with a Second World W…

It's Grimm Up North

Review
★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

It’s Grimm Up North presents a Fringe first through the medium of animated comedy: simply playing just under an hour’s worth of television, what would amount to the first two e…

My Damage is My Gift! - Free

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Jonathan Prager’s performance is a mixture of spoken anecdotes and original songs with both lyrics and score written by himself and performed with accompaniment from Ben, his ver…

Cancer Time

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

Cancer Time is a special piece of theatre.

A Servant to Two Masters

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

General Silliness Productions transports their audience to Venice using the sixteenth-century Italian style of Commedia dell’arte.

Ordinary Darkness

Review
★★
Allana Isaacs
London Fringe
19th Nov, 2012

The Hen and Chickens theatre is located above a pub on a bustling roundabout in North London; an apt setting for a play set in one room detailing an eventful evening spent by three…

Fiddlesticks

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Brunton Theatre is far away.

Chris Corcoran and Elis James - The Committee Meeting

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

Chris Corcoran and Elis James aka Mr Chairman and Rex Jones, the Caretaker, invite you to join them (and the third mystery comedian who remains un-credited) at the committee meetin…

Rut

Review
★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2012

Michael and Finn are two young boys who, through the mediums of prose and physical theatre, take the audience into the world of a young man named Jack.

Barely Legal: The 18-Year-Old Democracy

Review
★★★★
Allana Isaacs
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2012

Dave Levinsohn and Loyiso Gola are billed as South Africa’s premier comedians, and Barely Legal does not disappoint as a platform to bring both these talented men together.

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