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Continue reading →: A Microscopic Odyssey -Mycelium Theatre Company-Edinburgh Fringe 2026.A Microscopic Odyssey has, so far, delivered the most beautiful moments of lighting using an overhead projector, torches, and a mirrorball. Placing this at the heart of ‘how’ the story is told speaks of a company that is curious, inventive, and committed. This successfully mirrors the characteristics of microbiologist James…
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Continue reading →: Bailey Edwards-Interview ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe 2026.With the Edinburgh Fringe now into its first week, I have caught up with Bailey Edwards to talk about his Edinburgh Fringe debut Play Dead. When and where are you performing at the Fringe this year?The dog crate will be in Underbelly’s Iron Belly at 3.40pm for thefull run of…
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Continue reading →: Goodbye Dandelion-Underbelly Cowgate.I can leave an Edinburgh Fringe show feeling any number of emotions, but rarely the heartfelt warmth that stayed with me long after Goodbye Dandelion finished yesterday afternoon. Created by Maddie and Marcus Rice, the show focuses on an intergenerational friendship. Darcy is an enigmatic, fierce, and blunt 87 year…
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Continue reading →: The Elixir of Love-Waterperry Opera Festival.Nestled in the Oxfordshire countryside. Waterperry House and Gardens has an impressive 300 seating amphitheatre space used for theatre, music, and opera. The acoustics are wonderful, and as the day turns to evening, the birdsong switched to seeing the bats flying above our heads, along with the stars on the…
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Continue reading →: Erwartung and Murderous Delusions of Gavrilo K: A Double Bill – Arcola Theatre.Now in its 19th year Grimeborn Opera Festival at The Arcola Theatre continues to challenge with two relatively unknown (to me anyway) modern chamber operas Erwartung and Murderous Delusions of Gavrilo K: A Double Bill. The first opera is Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung (“Expectation”), a psychologically intense one-act expressionist monodrama written…
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Continue reading →: George Maguire-Interview ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe 2026.With just a few days left now before this years annual, Edinburgh Fringe begins. I have caught up with George Maguire to chat about his upcoming show. When and where are you performing at the Edinburgh Fringe? In What I AmGreenside at George Street22 – 26 George Street, Edinburgh EH2…
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Continue reading →: Naughty Boy by Eddy Brimson.
Best-selling writer and comedian Eddy Brimson brings to life Joe in his one-man play Naughty Boy at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. From my understanding, it has been set in a psychiatric hospital. Where nurses are serving the wards rather than prison officers in the environment in which he is…
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Continue reading →: At Sea – Little Angel Studios.Little Angel Studios is one of my favourite venues, and At Sea, by Life and Limb Puppets in association with Alphabetti Theatre, is a perfect example of why. At Sea forms part of the Little Angel Theatre Children’s Puppet Festival, which is now in its 4th year. It is a beautifully…
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Continue reading →: Dede Lovejoy – Interview ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe 2026.Dede Lovejoy is bringing her play SHAMANIAC-a Spiritual Traumedy to Greenside for the Edinburgh Fringe. I have quickly caught up with her ahead of the Edinburgh madness. When and where are you performing at the Fringe this year? SHAMANIAC – A Spiritual Traumedy is playing at The Mint Studio at Greenside at…
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Continue reading →: Dreamscape – Arcola Theatre.Some stories demand to be told, and Dreamscape showing at The Arcola Theatre is one of them. Rickerby Hinds’ powerful hip-hop theatre piece is inspired by the true story of Tyisha Miller, the 19-year-old Black woman shot dead by California police in 1998 while she lay unconscious in her aunt’s…












