Six extraordinary musical theatre performers take to the stage with one seemingly impossible task: create a brand new musical from scratch, based entirely on suggestions from the children in the audience. The result is Showstopper! The Kids Show, a wildly inventive hour of music, comedy, storytellin…
Unless one happens to have read the programme notes beforehand, it’s not immediately obvious that Rockpools is a play about endometriosis. For the first half, the only hint we get is the protagonist’s bloody sheets. Instead, debut writer-performer Molly Windust has created a character rich in od…
Ed Gaughan is extremely good at accents. So good that it’s five minutes or so into the show before anyone realises his native accent is not, in fact, Irish.…
Tarang Hardikar’s Edinburgh Fringe debut is an hour of wonderfully curious comedy, in which no thought is too small to escape scrutiny. If I’m Not Wrong is built around Hardikar’s instinct to question absolutely everything, creating a show which is as authentic as it is delightfully unpredicta…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky can surely claim to be one of the world's most talented and memorable composers. Born in Russia in 1840, he composed some of the most well-loved and memorable ballets of all time such as Swan Lake and Nutcracker, as well as operas such as the masterful Eugene Onegin, and cla…
Jess Robinson does not simply impersonate the stars. She appears to possess an entire musical showreel of them. …
What did our critic think of AOIFE DUNNE: GOOD GRIEF at Gilded Balloon Teviot?…
Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out is a light-hearted, sharp hour of musical talent and witty comedy. It’s not a show you want to miss! …
Performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the fifth year in a row, Ania Magliano shows us all why she is one of Britain's greatest stand-ups going today.…
With Rewilding, Chris Cantrill shows himself off as a veteran of his craft.…
Four boarding school alumni gather in a secluded country house to divide a dead friend’s inheritance over dinner, but the evening soon begins to unravel. Insults are flung, compliments curdle into cruelty, and civility fractures as social grace is pushed to its breaking point...
The first of September, 1939. Sigmund Freud, the world renowned psychoanalyst awaits the visit of soon to be legendary author C.S. Lewis on the day World War 2 is declared. Lewis, a former atheist turned Christian is expecting to be taken to task for his recent satirisation of...
Irrational Theatre presents a Triptych treat for opera lovers and those who want to dip their toes in with this rare and special chance to see these three comic gems: A fun tale of mixed fortunes in Offenbach’s Le 66, performed for the first time in the UK with an English...
