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Continue reading →: Buzzing by Debbie Bird
Debbie Birds new Edinburgh show Buzzing tells the story of Julie. Recently separated from her husband of over twenty years. Life back in the single market isn’t what she had planned as she approached 50. How do you rebuild your life after such a long time with the same sexual…
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Continue reading →: How to Mend the World (with a student play) by Drunken Brainstorm.
Drunken Brainstorm would have been the perfect title for this production of How to Mend the World (with a student play). The fast-paced comedy performance is set as a group of budding actors brainstorm ideas to take their ideas in front of a funding board for twenty thousand pounds to…
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Continue reading →: The Heresy Machine by Dmitri Barcomi and Seth Majnoon.
The movement-based play The Heresy Machine is a queer cyborg fictional love story set between Alan Turing and his computer that he names Baby. The original musical score by Eamon Goodman integrates with the worlds first computer-generated music with his composition. It’s extremely clever and the voice of the computer…
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Continue reading →: Teach by
The powerful semi-autobiographical production by Matthew Robert’s at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Teach is a “warts and all” fast-moving play about his experiences inside and outside the classroom. Smattered with shocking statistics and an insight into how unsupported teachers are by parents, the wider community and the least of all…
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Continue reading →: Mason King- Sleight of Mind.
Entering Mason Kings 45 minute Sleight of Mind show. I was feeling cynical and unsure about what to expect. Magic is exactly that magic, I mean surely it’s all up to the magician’s sleeve! However, none of his tricks went anywhere near his sleeve during the entire show. The sheer…
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Continue reading →: Letter to Boddah by Watershed Productions.
As two friends Neil and Bill hold themselves hostage in the disabled toilets at their local Tescos in Oldham. They are contemplating their next move. With two guns on the toilet cistern and a suspicious-looking rucksack and the friends dressed in army uniform, only time will tell as to what…
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Continue reading →: The House of Influenza:A Spooky Tale of Freighteningness by Andrew Shires.
Lily Edwards performance in the one-woman show The House of Influenza by Andrew Shires is outstanding. A mixture of horror, humour and an array of different characters bring the stage to life. The atmosphere for this “kooky, spooky and a little bit kooky” production switches between a blacked-out theatre and…
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Continue reading →: HERSTORY by The Polly Clamorous Collective.
Polly Clamorous the all-female musical group who originate from Zimbabwe, Australia, Austria and Essex have bought their new production HERSTORY to Edinburgh for 2019. Herstory explores a chronological historical timeline about some of the forgotten famous enigmatic ladies who have played a role in shaping our history as we know…
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Continue reading →: The People’s Boat by Moaning Toad Productions Ltd.
Moaning Toad Productions Ltd has bought an interesting play to this years Edinburgh Fringe looking at how the post-Brexit U.K landscape might look as we lose our ropes and cast off from Europe. The stage is dressed as a ramshackle boat. As the crew discuss food, life and try to…
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Continue reading →: Rock ‘n’ Roll Girls by Queen Mary Theatre Company.
What on earth can be the connection between Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones, Lola by The Kinks, Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles, Roxanne by The Police and… Monica? The five characters in Rock ‘n’ Roll Girls explain all. Set in what is described in the press release as a…


















