The new play is about to start rehearsals in the play At This Stage. It is dying and nobody wants to continue with it. However, the producer has other ideas and the actors are in for a surprise. The director kidnaps and traps his cast of four in a basement.…

Domestic violence is a difficult topic to approach on a social platform in the arts. However, victims of these crimes are only women surely? Wrong, statistics show that for every three reported incidents one of those is against a man. Ronan Dempsey ‘s one-man physical performance production brings to the…

The Art of Skipping is a new musical exploring budding astronomist Alex’s journey and changing relationships as she learns to deal with her life-changing diagnosis of permanent blindness. Alex and her girlfriend Jay have bright futures ahead of them following the career paths they are destined to and working in…

Who would like to join the “Liberation Cape Caterpillar Club?” An intriguing idea isn’t it. Well, the cast of five graduates from Chichester University has created the Red Biscuit Theatre company. The very talented group have managed to encapsulate everything you hope and expect to find at the Edinburgh Fringe.…

James McNicholas photographed above with the “teapot” that was “Pop’s” first Boxing trophy. James McNicholas’s true story brings together the family history about his grandfather’s boxing career and brilliant comedy in his debut solo Fringe show The Boxer. As McNicholas begins his performance you wonder if this is a story…

Jodie Irvine has taken a partly autobiographical approach to the cause and effects of domestic abuse predominantly the damage caused by the term of abuse referred to as gaslighting. Setting the party themed stage with various party items from party poppers to hats you could easily believe this was to…

After hearing so much about this Theatre company previously successful productions. Birth has been the first play of their performances I have managed to see and I was not at all disappointed. Three generations of one family dealing with births, deaths and marriages are depicted in this production predominantly through…

The harrowing true story of the four Austrian nurses Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, and Waltraud Wagner who worked at the Geriatriezentrum am Wienerwald in Lainz, Vienna who between 1983 and 1989 killed 49 patients is told through the play Drowning. Each of the four women explains their own…

Huge Davies has a very creative approach to comedy using his wearable Yamaha keyboard along with the kitchen utensil decoration holding his microphone in place. The first thing you realise about this comedy show is that you’re not actually in a Car Park! Which is a shame as Davies was…

Love/Sick is a good first production by the new theatre group Hyacinth Theatre from Oxford University. Their strong LGBT themed relationships run throughout the seven couplings used within the performance. Within each of the seven short love stories “happy ever after” isn’t an option. They have taken a realistic approach…