On a pastel stage of dressing screens and make-up mirrors, blues and pinks interweave and combine in illustrations of Pablo Picasso's peace sign and the international drag queen RuPaul. The …
The downside of bringing a student production to the Fringe is that it faces going up against experienced acts, with the contrast between professional and amateur disciplines brought more…
In today's world, where black people witness the Ferguson shootings on their televisions, how can the feeling not be of being under systematic attack? In her play, Racheal Ofori takes hold o…
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…
“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…
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…
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 …
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"If you find something funny then laugh", says Jess Thom, a London artist with Tourettes syndrome. Alienated by the diagnosis in her early twenties, Thom took the advice of a friend: "You…
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…
"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…
'Tis the witching hour. The crowd file in at midnight for a heavy metal band pumping with the rage of the Greeks. In Aeschylus's Oresteia, the matriarch of the House of Atreus, Clytemnestra,…
What your computer can learn about you from your web searches and your reliance on Google Translate (despite your "fluency" in German), down to the porn you watch, makes for a startling poss…
"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.…
Captain Morgan 2: Sea of Souls is an explosion of pure imagination. A sequel of bewildering giddiness, it follows Captain Morgan 1: The Sands of Time, which made its debut last year and is c…
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…
If you've ever read Crime and Punishment now's your chance to get sweets pelted at you by none other than Dostoyevsky…
Young people creating their first piece of theatre can now apply for a grant specifically aimed at helping artists start out. A number of 'No Strings Allowed' grants worth between £500…
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…
Drinking a crate of beer would loosen the tongue on most people but not the two women performers in Spitfire Theatre's production, part of the Fringe's Cze…
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 …
We begin at 1,000,000 BC, with a set of scattered household furniture and timer starting at 1,000,000 projected onto the back wall. This begins to drop through the years at pace advancing to…
Christopher Marlowe’s sweeping epic is given a modern twist at the Tristan Bates Theatre. We are instantly bombarded with banging techno, synchronised marching in suits, chanting their…