384 stories by "Daniel Perks"
Like many families, the relationship between The Etienne Sisters isn't perfect. Ree (Jennifer Saayeng) and Tree (Nina Toussaint-White) are burying their mother when estranged half-sister Bo …
Five plays, five different writers, five different casts, one showcase. Sounds like a bargain, a chance to see new work over the course of an evening in bitesize chunks. The Miniaturists, no…
At just 19 years old, Dmitri Shostakovich unveiled his First Symphony in Leningrad to widespread acclaim and was compared to such greats as Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Like those bastions of t…
American Psycho, Seven and Dahmer were all given medium scores on Rotten Tomatoes when they were released, with the public giving (as expected) higher scores than the critics. At least, that…
Paul G Raymond and Luke Manning collectively make up the sketch comedy duo In Cahoots, but neither are strangers to the circuit and regularly perform in the improv troupe Shoot From The Hip.…
Feminism is a loose theme running throughout this comedy show from The Durham Revue, epitomised by one of the performance's early sketches; the company's two women (Charlotte Whistlecroft an…
Oscar Wilde's philosophical novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was heavily censored before its first publication in 1890 and even then it caused controversy, “violating the laws of publi…
"I'll cut the shit and get my monkey out." It's her final night of Edinburgh Fringe and Nina Conti is done with the pleasantries. She reaches into her oversized canvas bag and pulls out Monk…
'An incendiary new play about power, fear and fanaticism' is how the programme describes Gareth Jandrell's latest work for Dawn State Theatre Company. The plot revolves around a touring trio…
Christian O'Connell is a radio DJ, found hosting the weekday breakfast show on Absolute Radio. He's also a stand-up comedian and in this show he discusses his show and the number of complain…
Off the back of a run in King's Head Theatre in London, I Went To a Fabulous Party is no stranger to venues that specialise in nurturing new talent. The party in question is held by Lee (Mar…
An apparent sufferer of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Michael (Gary Quinn) is a casualty of the British armed forces. He suffers frequent flashbacks of his previous tours in Afghani…
“Dad died when I was 17”; a simple blunt statement from Hannah Moss. She doesn't voice this to the audience, she writes it on a whiteboard. She writes everything on the whiteboar…
Trisha Duffy makes her writing debut with Broken Biscuits. The story tells of Rita (Leanne Martin) and Maggie (Jane Hogarth), both with sons in the armed forces. Rita's son was killed in Afg…
Stage manager Claire Mellon must have loved this choice of musical, since it involves the construction of a growing man-eating plant, which can bring down the whole show if it doesn’t …
"I started a joke, which started the whole world crying." Puddles, a giant black and white clown resembling something from a worn-out fairground show, opens with this line from ‘The Jo…
Another musical adapted from a film, Dogfight tells of a group of U.S. Marines on their last night in San Francisco before shipping out to Vietnam. But this is 1963 and America had only just…
"The problem with birds is, they can fly." Harriet is a falconer and descends from a long line of falconers, ornithologists, twitchers and pheasant pluckers going back to Henry VIII's reign.…
Extempore Theatre has taken the 'Weird Tales Magazine' as their inspiration for this particular production. Popular in the 1920s times the magazine was renowned for publishing weird and wack…
To improvise a show requires the cast to think on its feet, work together easily and anticipate each other accurately. To improvise a comedy sketch show requires the cast to produce funny sc…
There are three separate companies performing Into the Woods at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. A Sondheim classic, it is in no way an easy ride, but then which of Sondheim's creations is? T…
Magicians have a hard time impressing the crowd nowadays. Everyone expects more risky, more daring and altogether more show-stopping tricks. Modern fantasy books and CGI-animated films show …
Successfully improvising a show requires the cast to think on its feet, work together easily and anticipate each others’ lines. Improvising a musical requires the cast to do all of thi…
In Arc, a square construction made of steel scaffolding is suspended above the stage. Three performers are lying asleep on it. They awake, scared and dazed at their surroundings like aban…
All teenage boys are inherently a bit weird. When Oliver Tate (Jonas Moore) is faced with trying to rescue his parents' failing marriage or trying to keep his own relationship alive with Jor…
