Articles by Kyung Oh

Snoutology for Beginners

Professors White Fang and Dr.

Sirens

Out of the darkness, six women emerge wearing evening dresses.

Ruskin Live

John Ruskin: leading art critic of the Victorian era, famous for his volume of essays “Modern Painters” and his endorsement of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Contractions

Emma is called in for a meeting with her manager and is reminded of a company contract she signed at the start of her employment: she must inform the company whenever she develops …

The Road to Skibbereen

Lianna is a young woman with learning disabilities.

Dead To Me

A man has come to see a psychic.

Shakespeare, His Wife and the Dog

After a successful career in London as a playwright and actor, William Shakespeare has returned home to his wife in Stratford.

The Domino Effect

The Domino Effect opens lyrically in a way reminiscent of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, with a series of vignettes of local East London characters.

The Human Sketchipede

Review
★★
Kyung Oh
Edinburgh Fringe
Chiquito
14th Aug, 2014

The Human Sketchipede packs a good deal into what the flyer promises will be “a unique brand of surreal sketch show”.

Show 6

Show 6 is Secret Theatre’s latest production of Mark Ravenhill’s new script.

Lungs

A couple are thinking about having a baby, but want to make sure they’re doing it for the right reasons.

Can't Stay Away!

Can’t Stay Away! is a farce centred around an immigrant worker from Eastern Europe who has saved up some money and just wants to return home.

Leaving Home Party

Review
★★
Kyung Oh
Edinburgh Fringe
Summerhall
19th Aug, 2014

A young woman who’s spent her entire life in Limerick, Ireland wishes to leave home and explore the world.

Mates

Mates is set in a Vanilla Sky-type universe where citizens are put into a digital incubator system to be matched up with their soul mates by an algorithm.

Who Did I Think I Was?

This is a two-hander written and performed by Peter Henderson.

Where the World Is Going, That's Where We Are Going

A man and a woman have come together to tell us about Diderot’s novel, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master.

Theatre on a Long Thin Wire

Review
★★★
Kyung Oh
Edinburgh Fringe
Summerhall
16th Aug, 2014

There are no actors in this show.

Are You Lonesome Tonight

This one-woman show begins with a deluge of diagnoses handed out to the audience members by the performer.

Upper Lip

The first half of Upper Lip - a new play by Robin Johnson - is so much like any one of P.

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

Review
★★★★★
Kyung Oh
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
6th Aug, 2014

How to put on an adaptation of the immortal Spanish classic in sixty minutes while doing it justice? Stephen Harper, MercE Ribot, and Patricia Rodriguez select some of the most fam…