Year: 2017

Reviews

Richard III, Temple Church – Review

A solidly entertaining production that sometimes tries too hard to underline the play’s contemporary relevance.

Dance

Profundis, Zoo Southside – Review

Pros: Elegant, clever, playful choreography. Cons: Only thirty minutes long – perfect for the fringe, belongs in a joint billing…

Cabaret

Between The Sheets, Underbelly – Review

An entertaining night that will leave you charged with positivity and high sex appeal levels. 

Drama

Edward II, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review

An epic condensed down to its bare bones and effectively told; a good retelling.

Comedy

Loot, The Park Theatre – Review

Side holdingly, eye wipingly funny, gloriously uncut production of a rarely staged masterpiece of humour and language.

Edinburgh Festival

Fix, Underbelly Cowgate – Review

Pros: The sing-along moment that shows in practical terms the process of dopamine release that the play is all about.…

Comedy

Whore: A Kid’s Play, Greenside @ Infirmary Street – Review

Pros: Outrageously funny. Cons: The brazen jokes about sex and religion are for an adult audience. Whore: A Kid’s Play is not…

Edinburgh Festival

Woke, Gilded Balloon Teviot – Review

Pros: Apphia’s mellow storytelling and powerful singing are a perfect combination. Cons: Some background knowledge of African-American history is beneficial. Opening with…

Drama

Under My Thumb, Assembly Roxy – Review

An emblematic and visually strong play about female victims of abuse; prepare yourself to be shaken.

Circus

Last Clown On Earth, Pleasance Courtyard – Review

Pros: Arresting images and dark humour. Cons: A clown in existential crisis inevitably produces a show light on belly laughs.~…

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