A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Marie Curie is certain that she can make a name for herself and change the course of science in the progress as she arrives from her native Poland to study at Sorbonne University i…
Marie is a captivating recount of Marie Antionette’s existence.
The Victorian music hall: a hotbed of scandal and home of betrayal, discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
The Victorian Music Hall: Discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
We have more than likely at some point in our lives, heard of music hall star Marie Lloyd.
‘You look 15, but I like that.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Woyzeck and his family are continually exploited by the institution.
In the centenary year of Marie Lloyd’s death this is the story of how the “Queen of the Music Hall” came to fame, told from the perspective of male impersonator Nelly Power.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Betrayal, Age Discrimination, Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Violence, Press Intrusion, Robbery….
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, not to mention a wealthy property owner who performed a daring rescue at sea, Nelly Power was a for…
” The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery - and I can’t even get a seat in the crowd” In the true spirit of all comedy, which is based on tragedy, Nelly Power, one of the biggest star…
” The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery - and I can’t even get a seat in the crowd” In the true spirit of all comedy, which is based on tragedy, Nelly Power, one of the biggest star…
Little girls are made of sugar and spice and all things NAUGHTY.
Little girls are made of sugar and spice and all things NAUGHTY.
Join us for a chat with theatre-makers Helen-Marie O’Malley and Tim Marriott on their experience of using the arts to approach difficult themes.
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, Nelly Power was a force to be reckoned with in an era before female emancipation.
The boy I love is up in the gallery.
For an incomplete play, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck has nevertheless managed to secure enduring interest.
With the aid of a tea towel, a glass, and a stool, Sarah MacGillivray skilfully portrays a wide variety of characters in a modern re-telling of the story of Mary, Queen of Scots �…
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
We meet landlady Liz as she hosts another Historical Night.
‘There’s two rules: first, the person you choose must be dead.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Lynne Jassem brings her moving solo show From Como to Homo to Edinburgh.
Marie Chouinard, one of the world’s most daring and original choreographers, presents a double bill of dance.
I think I’ve found my new favourite musical, thanks to Tangram Theatre and their amazing piece on one of the 20th century’s most important scientists.
This musical is billed as a work-in-progress showing as it will premiere at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.
Marie was no ordinary woman … at fifteen, when her mother died, she raised her siblings, learned four different languages including Esperanto, got a degree, became a prize-winnin…
(in previews; opens on May 1) The first play in Ed Bullins’s “Musical Structures” trilogy, this drama mirrors the bebop rhythms and syncopations of a jazz co…
It’s New Year’s Eve 1968, and Jerry Wolfert, the “most hated man in the San Fernando Valley,” is celebrating his first night in Hollywood.
Matt and Ian provide an hour of laughs with their improvised show at the Sweet Venues.
Gravity Boots is an absurd nonsensical comedy show playing at the Gilded Balloon.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
La Clique Royale is possibly the least family friendly circus extravaganza you’ll find in Edinburgh and it’s not to be missed.
Singapore company I Theatre and UK company Kipper Tie Theatre team up for Our Island, a lovely children’s theatre piece about working together to overcome differences.
Knickerbocker Glory! is a fantastically entertaining cabaret show presented by The Sundaes, a trio of ladies whose main shtick is that they are bigger than life, literally.
Bob Slayer treats his audience like a classroom full of unruly students - he is the erratic alcoholic headmaster to lord over them all.
The lights slowly fade up on a young woman in a flowing white lacy dress, red bow at the waist, and shiny grey hi-top sneakers.
Peter Antoniou is not just a comedian or a medium but rather a ‘comedium’ and an extraordinarily entertaining one at that.
Mickey & Judy is a cabaret memoir piece by Michael Hughes about his experience of growing up and learning to accept the boy and man he is destined to be, with the constant inspirat…
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Sugar & Vice are Courtney Powell and Brydie Lee-Kennedy, who get up on stage and bare all.
If you want to see one of the best and most entertaining shows at the Fringe, look no further than Up & Over It, a fantastic subversive reinvention of Irish step dancing to electro…
We All Love Llamas is a great free poetry event to take your kids to while in Edinburgh.
Do you watch too much TV? Tony Mills wonders that he might, and explores his relationship to that seductive box in his phenomenal video-interactive dance, Watch It!Sitting on a gre…
The first announcement from Sound & Fury was that they intend to offend.
If the full house is any indication, Sharron Matthews really is a superstar and by the time she utters her first notes, she won’t let you forget it.
Head2Head is a jazz-rock group with a fantastic sound and a range of styles, from classic to contemporary.
And No More Shall We Part at the Traverse Theatre is the European premiere for Tom Holloway’s new play that oozes brilliance and subtlety as it gently explores what it means to b…
If you like non-confrontational theatre, plays without a message, or just fancy a pleasant morning, Hell’s Bells is the play for you.
Work Songs is a dance exploration of office-place machismo power struggles by The Dangerologists.
Damsel Sophie enters the room to dramatic music wearing a glittering black and gold dress and a top hat with a long tulle veil.
When Leonie first comes to the stage for Anybody Waitin’?, it isn’t quite clear if she’s part of the audience or the performance, as she’s dressed for a night out, and this…
If you have a love for classic jazz, you will enjoy the offerings of Colin Steele and Brian Kellock at The Jazz Bar this week.
One Man Star Wars Trilogy delivers exactly what the title promises.
Echo and Narcissus, an adaptation of the Greek myth by Durham University’s Rag and Bone Productions, is a terrific effort by the young company, but the production lacks a good de…
Simon Munnery has prepared a cuisine that’s perfect for carnivores, herbivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike.
It may seem surprising that Dr Brown, Phil Burgers, has turned his comic taste towards a children’s show, given his panache for brazen vulgarity and extreme physical comedy, ofte…
If you are looking for something fun and free with a few laughs at this year’s Fringe, then head on up the stairs of The Laughing Horse for a drink and some Blues and Burlesque i…