Articles by Carolyn Mckerracher

The Rakugo Show

Someta Hayashiya is a Japanese comedian.

Caught!

Dance, physical theatre, drama, film, spoken word and poetry are all to be found in this fast paced production from Hepzibah Theatre.

Blazing Grannies

It’s not quite what it says on the tin, but there are enough biscuits in there to keep you going throughout this relatively short performance.

Grimm Ever After

Review
★★
Carolyn Mckerracher
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2013

The stories of the Brother’s Grimm are world renowned and loved by generations.

Climb a Willow to the Sea God's Palace

This is a story about brotherly love and filial duty, complete with puppets, paintings, prose and even some Korean mysticism thrown in.

The Secret Agent

Roll up, roll up, the performance is about to begin! That’s the sense conveyed at the start of Theatre O and the Young Vic’s splendid adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s the Secret Agent…

Head Over Heels

Everyone loves shoes.

Shattered!

Seven figures in blue hospital gowns are crouched on stage.

Higgs

In the beginning, there was Jan van den Berg.

Dirty Water

‘Close cleaning’ might be a confusing term to those unfamiliar with the Glasgow vernacular.

One Giant Leap

There, in the midst of the darkness, sits the earth, glowing eerily, surrounded by silence.

Beyond Therapy

What happens beyond the therapy room, when patients venture off the couch and out into the world? A question posed and answered by the Birmingham Medics’ Performing Arts Society.

33

Who can forget the Chilean miner’s crisis? Trapped underground for 69 painful days, before being winched to the surface in a NASA designed capsule.

The Adventure

Small people at the front and big people at the back, the show is about to begin.

Newton

Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for THAT apple, least famous for his invention of the cat flap.

Neurovision

Rarely do you come across a show that is so bad, it’s good.

The Waiting Room

Four people silently enter a room.

Missing

Behind every missing person, there is a story.

A Romance

The performance is already underway as the audience enters, greeted by what must be one of the most beautiful sets at the Fringe.

No Direction

The opening of this play may catch you unawares, so pay attention from the start! In fact, throughout this play, the audience are taken by surprise again and again, frequently dupe…

Bad Boy Eddie

The strains of, ‘Ali Bali, Ali Bali Bee’, belt out from the PA as the cast tap their feet along with the rhythm.

The Trials and Tribulations of Mr Pickwick

Most people’s knowledge of Dickens comes from lavish TV series and sumptuous films, where the language of his books is made more accessible through adaptation.

Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking

Princeton New Jersey, 1933.

Family Tree

There’s a cacophony of noise and vision: music belts out, a woman is talking, a curious Pan-like creature reads, there are screens and shadows and it all feels very up close and pe…

Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend

Irish lass leaves home in Cork to seek better opportunities in Dublin.

Hansel and Gretel

‘Hunger is the worst feeling in the world’, says the magical storyteller.

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