Bible John @ Pleasance Courtyard
2019-08-06
Why is that that so many women, perhaps most, are engulfed by fear when they wait at a bus stop,Continue Reading
Myra’s Story @ Assembly Rooms
2019-08-06
It is ironic, and yet inadvertently fitting, that Brian Foster’s award-winning tale of the street drinker Myra McLaughlin – performedContinue Reading
Peter Gynt @ Festival Theatre
2019-08-04
The difference between the many not the few, what David Hare “after Henrik Ibsen” labels humans and trolls, the latterContinue Reading
A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Globe
2019-07-29
The fate of Hermia (Faith Omole) at the start of director Sean Holmes’ technicolour take of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at theContinue Reading
The End of History @ London’s Royal Court Theatre
2019-07-27
Conversing with Sal (Lesley Sharp) is a bit like sitting in the black leather chair under the hot studio lightsContinue Reading
CABARET REVIEW: Exposing Edith @ London’s Southbank Festival
2019-07-25
One-woman shows and musical two-handers about legendary performers are ten a penny on the festival circuit. Primarily because of theirContinue Reading
Nigel Slater’s Toast @ London’s Other Palace
2019-07-24
The crinkling of a sweetie wrapper, in the theatre, is usually met with an icy stare or a stoic silence.Continue Reading
Equus @ London’s Trafalgar Studios
2019-07-20
Curled up in the foetal position in the faraway corner of a hard floor, boxed in by a wall ofContinue Reading
Amélie @ Edinburgh King’s Theatre
2019-06-27
Raised by distant parents – Amélie’s (Audrey Brisson’s) “iceberg” of a father (Jez Unwin) limited his affection to a monthlyContinue Reading
Avenue Q @ King’s Theatre Glasgow
2019-06-26
If A is the Ritz and Z is the pits then Avenue Q is at the wrong end of theContinue Reading
The Things We See @ SYT
2019-06-25
Nestled in the heart of the Merchant City, in the intimate surroundings of SYT’s Edwin Morgan Studio, Half-Light Nights, aContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
2019-06-19
With perpendicular wooden beams running the depth and width of a barren stage, above which copper-coloured sheets of metal rise fromContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Red Lion @ Falkirk Town Hall
2019-06-14
As the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Duchess [of Malfi] @ Edinburgh Lyceum
2019-06-06
Malfi, we have a problem. The relationship at the heart of Zinnie Harris’s self-directed adaptation of The Duchess of MalfiContinue Reading