Heads Up

Heads Up

Dance Base describes their one off line-ups as ‘The Fringe spirit distilled into 50 minutes’. 

Ruskin Live!

Ruskin Live!

In the Autumn of 1853 the great Victorian critic John Ruskin delivered four lectures at the Philosophical Institution in Queen Street, Edinburgh. 

Anna.

Anna.

Anna is missing, but why, and what happened in the day leading up to her disappearance? This non-linear play cuts back and forth from evening to daytime to unveil the truth behind … 

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience

Dining at Faulty Towers is a riotous and exuberant nostalgia trip. 

Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes

Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes

I’ve often wondered what was going on behind the life models eyes. 

Acts of Contrition

Acts of Contrition

How can you prove your apologies come from the heart? Do we only express remorse because we crave forgiveness? Can we forget as easily as we can forgive? This short play, new writi… 

Cloud Man

Cloud Man

Cloudia has been searching for Cloud Men all her life; on this journey she’ll finally find one on an expedition up Cloud Mountain but more importantly, she’ll learn a valuable … 

Conversations With Love

Conversations With Love

If you could tell Love what you honestly thought of it what would you say? In this fusion of poetic monologue, dance and sign language, Vintage Star Productions approaches love wit… 

Endure: A Run Woman Show

Endure: A Run Woman Show

A marathon is a metaphor for life in this interactive, multimedia promenade. 

Built for Two

Built for Two

Somebody’s Theatre from Sheffield offers us a piquant slice of life with this story of the tangled lives of four twenty somethings who share more than toothpaste - entirely set i… 

The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean

The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean

Follow ‘Scrapologist’ Dr Patricia Baker as she probes, analyses and repairs a large Victorian scrapbook, identified as the property of the lonely clockmaker and seaweed collect… 

The Council of the Ordinary

The Council of the Ordinary

This four-piece breakdancing crew is agile, energetic and hard-hitting. 

Country Air - A Contemporary Ghost Story

Country Air - A Contemporary Ghost Story

Country Air ‘A Contemporary Ghost Story’ is, to be frank, confusing and confused about what it is. 

Fruitful Ties and Bone Dust

Fruitful Ties and Bone Dust

Fruitful Ties performed by former Royal Ballet member, Mathew Hawkins and choreographer and teacher Steinvor Palsson, is strangely engrossing. 

Food For Thought

Food For Thought

It’s a kind of absurdist sketch show, perhaps. 

B O X

B O X

B O X is an odd and offbeat comedy, and perhaps too self aware of that. 

Metamorphosis: A Return to Presence

Metamorphosis: A Return to Presence

This is difficult to write. 

Songs of Lear

Songs of Lear

When your hairs are standing on end only five minutes into a play - and the singers are just getting into their swing - you know in your gut that you’re in for something special… 

Rubber Dinghy

Rubber Dinghy

This is an action-packed offering that runs for an intense half an hour of desperation and claustrophobia. 

True Colours

True Colours

From the offices of The Janus Media Corporation at the Northern Stage, newly born political parties, us the audience, scamper off into the streets, armed with smart phones and a pl… 

Closer

Closer

Rush Theatre presents Patrick Marber’s famous play, Closer, with clarity and sensitivity, but it sadly lacks in the palpable vigor of passion. 

Minu1s

Minu1s

This is a mixed bag of contemporary dance pieces from undergraduate JMUpstart Dance Company. 

Tales from Edgar Allan Poe

Tales from Edgar Allan Poe

Before watching this performance, I was eagerly expecting to be impressed by the promise of circus skills, puppetry, and a beloved writer. 

Gods

Gods

A husband tells his wife tales to sooth her, calm her sorrows, reawaken for her the beauty of the world. 

Kemble's Riot

Kemble's Riot

Welcome to Covent Garden Theatre, 1809, John Kemble, renowned actor and theatre manager is about to perform his celebrated Macbeth alongside his equally esteemed sister Sarah Siddo… 

Jishin

Jishin

This dance-sketch show opens with a playful film, projected onto the large screen entirely covering the back wall of the space, featuring the cast as they hide behind pylons, trees…