REVIEW: Consumed
Reading Time: 2 minutesWinner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2022, Karis Kelly’s play Consumed is a pitch-black and twisted comedy of dysfunctional family dynamics, generational trauma and national boundaries.
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REVIEW: Last and First Men
Reading Time: 2 minutesNarrated by Tilda Swinton and composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Gotman, and set against the backdrop of Jóhannsson’s film, Neon Dance’s Last and First Men brings together some of the most celebrated names in contemporary performance and design.
REVIEW: Neave Trio
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Kings Place’s Hall One, the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio (Anna Williams on violin, Mikhail Veselov on cello, and Eri Nakamura on piano) presented an intimate journey of music through memory, love and loss.
REVIEW: Miles
Reading Time: 2 minutesDrawing inspiration from the jazz icon Miles Davis’s music and turbulent life, Miles, an Edinburgh sell-out show in 2025, spotlights multiple dimensions of his story: his relationship with his father, his obsession with boxing, his intense love affairs, and his struggles with drugs.
REVIEW: Maggots
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaggot, a new play by Farah Najib, tells the story of a group of loosely connected neighbours who are forced to confront an unusual situation unfolding just beyond their front door.
REVIEW: Aurora Orchestra with Brett Dean & Lotte Betts-Dean
Reading Time: 2 minutesMemory, the experience of the past being retrieved, reconstructed, and relished by the mind, is always about echoes and reverberations across time. It is the mind’s continual rewriting of the past: two points separated in time, yet intersecting and overlapping, reunited by the device of memory.
REVIEW: Kenrex
Reading Time: 2 minutesMadly gripping and jaw-droppingly masterful, this is the best crafted piece on stage I have seen in years.
REVIEW: How Does Santa Goes Down The Chimney?
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? is the perfect winter treat (with a little added spice!) for all children, aged 108 or 5. Fusing sketch, puppetry, and clowning, the piece tells a simple, lighthearted story, a story we all know about, the story of Santa coming into our houses to deliver Christmas gifts – but with many many twists.
REVIEW: Wicked Witches at The Pleasance Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesA show full of laughter and silliness that hugs the queer child inside every one of us. I may be a child no more, yet this might be the most gender-affirming show this year for the queer,…
REVIEW: Alternative Roots Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlternative Roots Festival, curated by Kakilang and Ming Strike, was a full day festival of arts spanning different mediums celebrating the works of ESEA artists diaspora.