Reading Time: 2 minutesA play about climate change that feels like a play about climate change We need plays about climate change. John Webber valiantly rises to the challenge with Fire Fire but gives us a rather predictable premise: the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSunrise for the Blind is a beautifully simple - and bleakly realistic - play.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmily Farley’s Cherston opens with six young graduates grinding on each other and blaring music.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD is about The Shaggs, the quintessential outsider band. It’s the show Edinburgh couldn’t shut up about. It’s about the best worst album ever made.
Reading Time: 2 minutesConsistently bizarre, subtly profound, and breathtakingly beautiful. I hope I never forget The Edge of Space. I close my eyes and I can see it now: red bulbous furniture, blue-faced aliens in white crinolines, flying cheese puffs,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristina Lahti fights against misogyny in her autobiographical play, The Smile of Her Christina Lahti’s The Smile of Her is an autobiographical play with a sad list of content warnings. Lahti opens the vault of family secrets,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn at the Rosemary Branch Theatre: four monologues from four recent graduates of East 15’s MA Acting Program.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the next hour and a half, playwright Sophie Swithinbank gives us cults, arson, serial murderers, pet rabbits, sexual violence, and anaphylaxis in her valiant effort to explore control.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Crying out for imagination, absurdity or self-awareness: Woof is just a play about two dogs.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesHarmlessly jovial. Allegra will make you laugh (and occasionally cringe) “Some people do cocaine, I do cabaret. It’s odd that it’s the latter that offends people” is what Allegra declares in defence of her irrepressible urge to break…