REVIEW: Philosophy of the World
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.
Clara Wade
REVIEW: The Edge of Space
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,…
REVIEW: The Smile of Her
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,…
REVIEW: A Fire Inside Her
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn at the Rosemary Branch Theatre: four monologues from four recent graduates of East 15’s MA Acting Program.
REVIEW: Sting
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.
REVIEW: Woof
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Crying out for imagination, absurdity or self-awareness: Woof is just a play about two dogs.”
REVIEW: Allegra
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…
REVIEW: Older
Reading Time: 2 minutesA meditation on growing up with moments that feel kidnapped from real life.