Edinburgh Fringe Review : Divas @ Pleasance Dome
Divas is a mind-boggling, time twisting love story that is cleverly scripted to leave you immensely confused. A backwards to forwards tale of two men's love, Divas shows moments of brilliant…
Divas is a mind-boggling, time twisting love story that is cleverly scripted to leave you immensely confused. A backwards to forwards tale of two men's love, Divas shows moments of brilliant…
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…
As Jamie Wood wanders round in his huge loin cloth and then black dress, I can safely say that this is quite the strangest show I have ever seen. This hippy homage to Yoko Ono…
This story is really all about a game of chess, and I never thought I’d say this, but it is much more interesting then that might sound. B, yes, just B, is onboard the SS Triu…
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…
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…
When best friends Joe and Billy arrive at a secret bird watching hideout, they could be like any two friends off on some runaway adventure. They innocently unpack " folding their clothes in …
" It is not the fashion to have the lady do the epilogue." Emma Bentley bubbles on stage to bring us an ambitious monologue performance of one girl’s experience growing up in the t…
1972 : The Future of Sex is an expertly devised piece of comedy, peppered with an immensely intelligent commentary about the concept of sex in our society, back when The Female Eun…
Blood Wedding, based on a newspaper account of a wedding in Spain in 1928, shot Lorca to huge success in the world of the arts. The plot centres on a kind and honourable gentleman of a villa…
Gariné is full of light-hearted humour and is not your typical opera. It is an adaptation of the nineteenth century opera Leblebidji Hor Hor Aga, and is composed and directed by Geral…
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 …
Feminism and beauty are topics that are often tackled by fringe theatre, with varying results. The Feral Foxy Ladies, however, have succeeded in creating an exciting, moving and brilliant pi…
Dorothy, written and co-directed by Bryan Hodgson, tells the story of the life of L. Frank Baum, creator of The Wizard of Oz, charting his struggles to find success as a writer and the inspi…
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…
Project Haha is a brilliant sequence of hypnotic trances. Utterly surrealist, one girl, clad in a yellow lemon-print dress and smiling ecstatically hums whilst the other smacks herself again…
She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother is a one-man confessional, written and performed by Simon Dean. In an hour of stage time he describes his experiences of growing up with a mother who suffere…
J is a physics teacher with a weak heart and a whole load of childhood dreams. She's been ground down by her job and is looking for a change from her pedestrian, everyday life. So wh…
Paul grew up in a very religious small town in Australia: minister father, religious public school, awkward conversations about things that teenage boys do " the whole deal, basically. Ag…
In June 1985, a large group of New Age travellers were stopped by the police on their way to set up the annual Stonehenge Free Festival. The resulting violence was reportedly more or less a …
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…
Ms Hyde is a life coach, motivational speaker extraordinar, friends to the stars, a 'cult personality'.  Supposedly, she changes people's lives. But she’s gone missing and Max, a…
The Hogwallops are not simply a circus troupe. Rather, an eccentric family of misfits who are all very good at throwing each other around the stage, and so this domesticity is given a …
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…