Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Park Theatre's latest production, The Garden of Words, is a based on Makoto Shinkai's beloved anime story and film, co-adapted for the stage by both Susan Momoko Hingley and Alexandra Rutter. An example of Anglo-Japanese theatre collaboration, cultural influences are blended together in this production, and listening to both the English and Japanese language on stage was particularly refreshing.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInspired by an incredible true story dubbed ‘Dumb and Dumber Bandits’, this madcap caper is the perfect fringe evening. We meet Brad and Chad on their gap year when they decide to rob a bank on a whim. We then follow their journey from their escape, capture and sentencing to their release. With verbatim dialogue we also touch on the victims' experience of the process and recovery, giving the piece dramatic weight alongside the sheer stupidity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMichele Sheldon’s fringe production Fleecehold, as part of the Camden Fringe Festival, brings together an ensemble cast to tell of the scandal in Leasehold housing that is attaching “onerous terms” to contracts and deeds. If it sounds heavy, Sheldon’s bouncy, episodic writing, the pacey direction, and the humour and caricature that the cast bring to it transforms it into an enjoyable and enlightening evening.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe tagline for 30 and Out grabs attention and provides a space for all those discovering their sexuality after puberty.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ll be honest - I wasn’t sure. I’m a Die Hard fan and my inclination was that the panto element might be a step too far. I was wrong. So wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWord-Play has a lot to say about the impact of language and, for the most part, succeeds in not only helping the audience see its effect but feel it, too—all the while skewering those types of people we know well.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMurder Inc Improv from Manchester are making their Edinburgh debut after 8 years of wowing predominantly northern audiences they’re here to make their mark.
Reading Time: 5 minutesInterview with playwright, performer and award-winning poet Raine Geoghegan, cultural script consultant on new West-End Musical For Tonight which will be having a staged concert, for one night only at the Adelphi Theatre on the 5 September.
Reading Time: 2 minutesExploring the angst and anxiety of first loves and the end of childhood that comes with going to Uni, The Verge of Forever depicts the journey of two young adults, Leo (Finlay McKillop– covering for Novello) and Marie (Scarlett Ayers) in the development of their relationship and their taking of those first tentative steps towards adulthood.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMolly is the story of a young woman who works at Greggs, parties on the weekends and goes through the unthinkable. The set up is simple - we meet Molly in all her Greggs garb and we even get to see her love of sausage rolls. We learn she’s single, loves her job and all the regulars, and on the weekend indulges in a bit of cocaine.