Aug 25, 2021
Review: Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.) by Mamoru Iriguchi (Summerhall)
Most of our sex education at school that was, at best, flimsy. What our fourteen-year-old selves were told to expect about the sexes,...
Aug 25, 2021
Review: Screen 9 (Pleasance at the EICC)
Learning about the Batman Shootings of 2012 is upsetting in two ways. The first is learning how many people were killed and injured doing...
Aug 23, 2021
Review: Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her) (Pleasance at the EICC)
We’ve all imagined chance encounters with people we have an urge to confront. We imagine in the shower, in the car, before we go to sleep...
Aug 22, 2021
Review: Buff & Sheen (Dancebase)
Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best, particularly when it comes to physical theatre and children’s shows. Performed through a...
Aug 21, 2021
Review: Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre - Triptych
One of the first things anyone learns in a primary school art class is the elements of art; things like line, shape, colour, form etc. In...
Aug 20, 2021
Review: Burnt Out (Assembly Roxy)
It's funny how little focus is put on the consequences of climate change. In theatre, and the wider discussion of the climate crisis...
Aug 19, 2021
Review: Smile Like You're Happy (TheSpace Triplex)
When it comes to discussions around social media, theatre tends to lag behind other forms of entertainment. There are exceptions, such as...
Aug 17, 2021
Review: Afterparty (TheSpace Triplex)
Plays about teenagehood usually fall into one of two traps. If they are created by grown-ups, whose visions of their teenage years are...
Aug 14, 2021
Review: Mediocre White Male (Assembly Roxy)
Often in monologues, we learn more about a character the less we hear the actual details of their life. The more you avoid discussing the...
Aug 14, 2021
Review: The Importance of Being...Earnest? (Pleasance at the EICC)
Be warned, this is a dangerous show. It involves no pyrotechnics. It has no elaborate stunts. It doesn’t even feature wild animals. No,...
