Sam Lake has brought his new comedy solo show Esméralda to the Edinburgh Fringe or was it Wembley, I couldn’t be sure! A show dedicated predominantly to his late Mum and finally “coming out as Spanish”. This isn’t a depressing reflective show consumed with grief. It’s a tribute laced beautifully with…

Menagerie has nothing to do with owning animals. It’s the daily routine and Menagerie of duties and responsibilities faced daily, choices and decisions that fit into our lifestyle. Anu Vaidyanathan’s life has been incredibly interesting and varied. Breaking any misconceptions about how families in parts of India fathers treat their…

Jake Mace performs the solo show Deeptime Atomic Waste Pleasure Party in the role of Rey a queer hedonistic partygoer who lives for the nightlife. Partying hard and attempting to make sense of what is happening to the world around them and the friendship groups and relationships that are forming…

Pool’s Gold offers an hour-long comedy show of two halves Blackpool comedian Jack Kelly kicks the show off and warms up the audience followed by Liverpool-born Jimmy Shirley who certainly well-travelled and had a few adventures. Jack is a seasoned comedian each of his performances will be slightly different as…

Bare Productions brought a large cast and accompanying orchestra to the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 with their superb musical production of Into The Woods performed in the Paradise Green venue. The almost three-hour-long performance is possibly the longest production shown at the Fringe this year. The practically bare stage setting for Into…

We all have Loft Luggage and as you get older that increases dramatically. Things you gather over time, inherited from dead relatives, and the “that might come in handy” stuff! It all mounts up unnoticed until the day you need to tackle it head on and decide the fate of…

After watching and reviewing Callum Patrick Hughes in Thirst at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, I was intrigued and keen to see his new show How Can I Help You? It’s always an honour to follow artists and watch their development and growth in their careers and I wasn’t disappointed in…

Sadie Pearson’s play To Watch a Man Eat is a raw, honest and thought-provoking play about the desire to want more power, control, wealth and overall status in the world one creates for themselves and the destruction that can follow when these expectations aren’t achieved. Micky (George Usher) begins the…