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 23, 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 20, 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: Daddy Drag (Tron Glasgow)
If you look at the marketing for Daddy Drag, you will see a dapper-looking gentlelady in a tuxedo, with slicked-back hair, a neat stubble...
Mar 2, 2020
Review: Romeo and Juliet - One-Man Musical (TheSpace at Surgeon's Hall)
This year there are (at least) five productions of Romeo and Juliet at the fringe. When a show is trying to trying to add a little more...
Aug 7, 2019
Review: Deep South Caesar (Gryphon Theatre)
It is not often that you get to see a one woman show about a man called Greg. Aimee Smith's satirical show follows the life of the...
Mar 20, 2018
Review: Phone Whore (BATS Theatre)
With any piece of theatre about sex, or in any way related to sex, the ever-present question is "how graphic?" or "how kinky?" it will...
Mar 12, 2018
Review: Girl You Want (BATS Theatre)
"Girl You Want", by Tess Mitchell, is intended to be an embodiment of her youth. Semi-autobiographical and not following any strict...
Mar 11, 2018
Review: Poet Vs Pageant (BATS Theatre)
Trying to enchant an audience with a story on the back of wit and rhyme, is a style and a performance type not done enough in this time....
Mar 8, 2018
Review: Beerey (Cavern Club)
Trying to take a story from around 2010-2011, and make it relevant enough to inspire action today, is a challenge for any piece of...
Mar 6, 2018
