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.

Lungs

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

The Human Sketchipede

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.

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

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

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…

The Flood

The Flood provides a haunting, tragic insight into one of the most devastating events in modern history.

Lands of Glass

Dann Rail is an eccentric resident of a town called Quinnipak.

The Knee Jerk of Sloth

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

Set in a derelict glue factory, this play portrays the lives of four homeless people as they live in squalor.

Unfaithful

Unfaithful is the latest work by Fringe First award-winning writer Owen McCafferty.

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

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.

Silky: Tribute Act

Silky is tall, with kind eyes that seem to have the power of x-ray vision.

Lady Carol: Lost and Found

Lady Carol sits on her stool with her ukulele and mandolin, wearing a black velvet robe that gives her the appearance of a fairy tale enchantress.

Men in the Cities

We begin early in the morning, when several men are getting out of bed.

Before Us

Stuart Bowden has fashioned his costume out of a lime-green sleeping bag, which becomes baggy and puffy like an emptied out bean bag around his body.

Rob Rouse: Through the Looking Ass

The title and poster of this show - a photo of Rob Rouse’s face literally looking through the legs of a naked bottom - are somewhat misleading about the nature of this show.

Horizontal Collaboration

We are at a tribunal for war crimes.

The Despondent Divorcée

We’re in 1940s New York at an upscale hotel, where a new jazz bar is having its opening launch party.

Mark Ravenhill: Product

We’re in the office of a movie producer.

Miss Behave's Game Show

Miss Behave hosts the wackiest, zaniest game show at the Fringe! You are kept on your toes, trying to outsmart the opposing team.

Ivy Paige: Kiss And Sell

There is something magnetic about Ivy Paige, with her long lashes, coy glances downwards, the pout of her deep scarlet lips, and her flaming hair brushed to one side.