And so, to a piece which has long been on my "to see" list but which has kept getting bumped as a whole host of other stuff claimed my attention. As Meet Me At The Edge is a filmed account o…
It was just about a month ago that I observed that considering the dominant story of all our lives for the last 18 months has been the pandemic, there haven't really been all that many dire…
Although I'd still give a best company name prize to recent Edinburgh appearees (??!) Expial Atrocious, running them a close second is Smoking Apples " though I'd be hard pressed to identify…
Around The World In 80 Days is best known for the iconic 1956 David Niven film rather than the original novel by the prolific French writer Jules Verne; this version seeks to restore the ori…
Arthur Smith pays homage to his (extra) ordinary Dad in Syd which premiered at 2018's Fringe and is now an online show recorded at Falmouth and being streamed via the Pleasance.
The real life figure of Ed Gein looms large in horror films and literature. Most famously he was the direct inspiration for Norman Bates in Psycho and his terrible influence can also be foun…
A warm and entertaining solo play, Lila Clements' Look, No Hands has some distinctive features which marks it out from many other confessional shows of a similar type.
Two well known tales with a twist: The Little Glass Slipper As Performed By The Queen of France And Her Friends and Metamorphosis. The second piece now tops my personal Edinburgh Fringe onli…
Without much more than a two line description in the Camden Fringe brochure, I plunged headlong into two wildly different but experimental pieces, Murmur and Wild Waxflower.
I set off for Hollywood, California via Edinburgh, Scotland and Adelaide, Australia. No, I haven't finally lost it, this was my online trip in both time and place courtesy of the Edinburgh F…
Though the big guns which are at the Edinburgh Fringe have now been rolled out, it's taking some time to pin down what to aim for there. Meanwhile its somewhat smaller sibling is continuing…
Jam Tart and Lemon Kurd are two accomplished monologues written by Rhiannon Owens and Nick Maynard which fit together neatly having complementary subject matter and a not dissimilar tone at …
Gigglemug Murder Mysteries borrow their titles, if not their characters and plots, from the works of Agatha Christie. The first of these is the recently released and enticingly titled Murder…
This is Masks And Faces (full title: Masks And Faces or Before And Behind The Curtain) his 1852 play set in the world of the theatrical profession which the Finborough rediscovered and produ…
Viper Squad writer James Dillon's new show Siren takes the tropes of the sci-fi horror genre (there's a heavy debt to Alien here) and throws the audience into the middle of the action.
The fourth and final Cultural Recovery Fund funded show from production company Seabright has been, like its predecessors, filmed at Wilton's Music Hall before a live audience and is being s…
In what I think may be a first, Original Theatre Company has released a filmed-as-live, onstage rehearsed reading in the shape of A Cold Supper Behind Harrods.
The first new piece for Queers references a moment in history while the second takes a broader more contemporary sweep of recent events but what unites them is that they present the experien…
What makes Black Is The Color Of My Voice stand out from the crowd is Apphia Campbell's performance which is multi-layered, dynamic and assured and, when she's singing, spine-tingling.
Silent Uproar's cabaret style show A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is a highly sensitive and nuanced performance which nails the debilitating effects of what is still a misunde…
The piece in question is Alan Ayckbourn's The Girl Next Door which harks back to earlier plays such as Whenever, Miss Yesterday, Surprises and especially Communicating Doors in its central c…
The Finborough Theatre's latest show to hit the ether is Leather which is now available on demand. It is a play which isn't for the faint hearted and comes trailing clouds of notoriety as on…
Simply called Knot, this is a three-part play which requires the listener to be at a specified (though general) location at a certain time, then to connect to an app and let Darkfield do the…
Footprints Festival at Jermyn Street celebrates female empowerment
Ode To Joyce is an enjoyable 75 minute celebration of the wit and wisdom of a self-effacing performer who did much to pave the way for a later generation of women to seize the comic nettle.