Blue Beard

Blue Beard

Blue Beard is a nasty man with a nasty plan: he cuts the throats of the women he marries. 

Wonderland

Wonderland

The late 1890s. 

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

Let’s face it, when the Liverpudlian narrator of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers’s asks ‘have you ever heard the story of the Johnston twins?’, you probably have. 

Under the Blacklight

Under the Blacklight

As crotchety Anne tells her bumbling assistant Jennifer in Nick Moran’s Under the Blacklight, the stage manager’s realm is amongst the ‘ghosts of dead ambition and infinite amou… 

Big Day for the Goldbergs

Big Day for the Goldbergs

‘Same old story,’ remarks Lucille Goldberg as she discusses her family’s past. 

Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus

Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus

Edward Wren cuts a fine macabre master of ceremonies in The River People’s Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus. 

Beauty and Meaning of Autographs

Beauty and Meaning of Autographs

Deep Dark South’s programme note for The Beauty and Meaning of Autographs is comprehensive and clear. 

Rabbits, Ladders and Stars in Jars

Rabbits, Ladders and Stars in Jars

The stripy t-shirt wearing, variously lipsticked or mustashioed cast of puppetry show Rabbits, Ladders and Stars in Jars start their piece with five minutes of laughter, grunts and… 

Beauty is Prison-Time

Beauty is Prison-Time

Lashmela might sound like any ordinary girl. 

Penelope by Enda Walsh

Penelope by Enda Walsh

We are at the bottom of a drained swimming pool in the baking summer heat. 

Are You There?

Are You There?

Couple Francisco and Anna share their flat with Fergus. 

Fastest Woman Alive

Fastest Woman Alive

Jackie Cochran: first female pilot to break the sound barrier; ambitious individual in the face of prejudice and set-backs; woman suffering the nightmarish memory of her first chil… 

Evening with Dementia

Evening with Dementia

If you’ve been in Edinburgh for a few weeks, or even days, you will probably have experienced the Evening with Dementia marketing campaign, which consists of actor Trevor T. 

Death of the Unicorn

Death of the Unicorn

Death of the Unicorn is a hodge-podge of a play. 

Stacy

Stacy

Rob keeps reminding us that he was ‘a beautiful child‘. 

Clinical Lies

Clinical Lies

‘Turn your mobiles off and be quiet’ spit two masked characters at the start of Clinical Lies. 

Orlando

Orlando

Orlando claims an oak tree trunk is ‘anything to which I could attach my floating heart’, such is the power of his imagination. 

Bluebird

Bluebird

‘How the fuck would you know that feeling?’. 

Proper Night

Proper Night

A group of college friends and associated mates head to a festival, expecting a proper night of drink, drugs and dancing.