After a sensational opening involving the lead singer of The Great White Males smashing his way through the stage’s backdrop, this punk performance gets off to a cracking start: “Everybody wants a home A little bit of debt to call their own” The show’s called Cuncrete, and it […]
Katie Bonna sets up ‘All The Things I Lied About’ in the guise of a TED talk; the red carpet, the head mic., the snazzy spotlights. She tells us this talk will change our lives, that she will draw us from the dark heart of dishonesty and pull […]
Rupert Brooke is best known for his WW1 poetry and his handsome good looks, but is otherwise a lesser known figure in the Bloomsbury circle of intellectuals and artists. Verge of Strife tries to present a true portrait of the man who, in his own time, was regarded as […]
After a couple of years off the comedy radar Tony Law’s new show, ‘A Law Undo His-Elf What Welcome’ makes it clear that he is back on target. Bouncing onto stage in a pilot onesie and gardening gloves, Law begins his show with a sequence of rhythmic gymnastics: […]
‘Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life’. A quote from the scientist Albert Schweitzer, not the scientist featured in the play, Tank, but a scientist with a much better sense of moral integrity than the characters on stage. Tank is an extraordinary piece of theatre, not simply because […]
Seann Walsh hasn’t been to Edinburgh for a couple of years. This is almost definitely because he’s been living a prolifically healthy lifestyle; wheat free, dairy free, avocado on rye, that sort of thing. Not because he looks like a glowing vision of health, but because he can’t […]
Alternating between the present day and the mid 90s, Happy Dave is both the story of a DJ and a commentary on today’s youth culture, or lack of it. The rave scene in the 90s was a counter culture that really stuck it to The Man. Thousands of […]
It’s the end of the world. A great flood has swept all but four human beings into oblivion. Somehow, against the odds, four strangers manage to escape on a swan pedalo. At first the characters are fairly stereotyped: posho Steven; nerdy pessimist, Andy; spiritual nutter, Bobby; scarily competitive […]
In all the fun of the fringe it’s easy to overlook the theatre productions that are doing something more than simply entertaining their audiences and trying to break even. A lot of theatre I’ve seen in Edinburgh this summer is pushing boundaries in terms of form, but Villain […]
A Tale of Two Cities; one of Dickens’ greatest works set during the French Revolution and featuring one of the most ruthless female characters in history, Mme Defarge. It is here adapted by two companies, the Chung Ying Theatre Company and Red Shift Theatre Productions. One can picture […]
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