You can find more comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe than you can find ants in an anthill, and it’s often difficult to know where to start. Do you go for improv? Stand-up? Sketches? Those …
An orange tree cascades from the ceiling, screeching cat sounds punctuate the theatre’s silence and a family gathers for their mother's memorial. This is the slightly absurdist world o…
Redundant lottery tickets, unexpected meetings on nights out, fathers and a curious incident of a dog in the nighttime: A.K.A., the ingredients of Acts of Redemption, Ken Jaworowski's touchi…
Jess is having a tough time. She's going through a break-up from Leo " perfect, beautiful 'The One' Leo. If it were 2015, she'd remove him from Facebook, delete his number, cry to 'Someone L…
I'm starting to believe that the only comedy shows in existence should be improv comedy. Formed of seven St. Andrews university students, Blind Mirth's comedy improv is hilarious from start …
We've seen a surge in musical theatre over the past few years of shows that tentatively straddle a fine line between genius and extremely offensive " shows such as Book of Mormon spring to m…
Election night 2015. The UK is either teetering on the edge of a new era of politics or destined for another five years of Tory leadership. The nation is divided by opinion. Open aims to del…
Amongst busy nurses and clumsy drunks, three young people find themselves in late night A&E. Robyn has suffered a dreadful accident and her three friends wait anxiously for news, and …
It’s a mismatched band of not-so-merry men " an architect tormented by high expectations, a hopeless romantic tormented by an Italian restaurant memory, a German man tormented by ha…
Nothing says fun quite like wave-particle duality, theories of critical opalescence and thermodynamic fluctuations. Am I right? Albert Einstein thinks so. He's here to prove that physics can…
19 August, 1978. 8:21pm. Abadan, Iran. Nearly 500 people sit down to watch Masoud Kimiai's 1974 film Gavaznha in the Cinema Rex. What follows is one of the most deadly terrorist attack…
Only a very specific kind of person wanders the streets of cities in the early hours of the morning: people with nowhere to go or people who have somewhere to go but don't want to be there. …
Jack and Jill went up to The Hill pub for three pints and some slippery nipple shots. Jack brings home Gretel, Jill brings home Peter. Just average one-night stands that somehow turn into re…
What do you do when a dead man's cell phone is ringing? Do you: A) Ignore it? B) Call an ambulance? Or C) Answer it? Jean chooses the latter. And in doing so, becomes entangled in the enigma…
I'm not sure what it is about this period of history that inspires such vivid storytelling " some of it of questionable quality. With Jethro Compton's The Rattlesnake's Kiss, we're not patro…
There’s nothing quite like immersive theatre. I find myself sitting on the work surfaces in the dingy basement kitchen of a theatre; the industrial lights are cut, door bursts open …
It's early morning. A flurry of beings surround the most important man on Earth, fumbling with their clipboards for the daily meeting, taking place in the Big White Building. The agenda is e…
Joey, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Ross and Rachel all put their keys down on the table of their New York apartment. It's 2004 and The Last One. The audience is on their feet, the actors are te…
For the second time today and for the third time this week I find myself in a show about cancer. Earlier I learnt about BRCA1 on the back of a cello with a sharpie, today we have the 'chemot…
Okay, I'll admit it. I haven't seen the film Jurassic Park. Yes, I have lived under a rock for the past 50 years. But by no means does this stop me enjoying Superbolt Theatre Company's dynam…
Most people hitchhike to simply get from A to B. In fact, most people don't really hitchhike much at all in 2015. Why put your life in the hands of total strangers when you can get a Megabus…
It seems that politics in the twentieth century was very much a trust game. Who is spying for the Russians? Who is spying for the British Government? And most importantly, who is a secret un…
Spaghetti is thrown. Cornflakes fall from the air. Wine is spilt. The stage is a mess. Here lies the remnants of FEAST, Clout Theatre's gutsy exploration of humanity's relationship with food…
Marina Skippett loves to tap dance. She does it waiting in line for the supermarket, along the street, even in bed while she is asleep. But when her irritable auntie bans tap danci…
Plays about cancer can go one of two ways: sad or ironic. Sad cancer plays focus on the devastating emotional effects of cancer and are generally tear-inducing. Ironic cancer plays include a…