Reading Time: 3 minutesA clever gem of the Lambeth Fringe that uses a sweet dose of absurdism (and a delightful bunch of spuds) to explore themes of immigration, climate change, and belonging If you don’t know a lot about potatoes…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA queer, interracial, interfaith exploration of a Shakespeare classic made up of almost entirely original verse, Romeo & Hamed is a bold and slick production. Sinew and Slime and Pie Productions present Scott Horgan’s debut play this week at Riverside Studios, starring its writer along with Anish Roy as the two leading men. Yes, Juliet has been replaced with Hamed, a young Muslim man, and he brings new dimensions to an already timeless story. The play is written in ‘lyrical verse’, intermittently rhyming and placing us firmly in modern day Croydon.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLianna Holston is back with her sophomore Fringe show, Haha, Oh God 2.0, and she is ready to make everything about your non-existent sex life okay.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten and directed by Cora Bissett, with music and lyrics by beloved Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, The Singer is an hour and a half of not only great music but also top-notch storytelling.
Reading Time: 3 minutes'Singing a lot of African American choral music with an almost-exclusively white choir probably warrants mentioning the word “slavery” at least once.'
Reading Time: 2 minutesMorna Young’s newest play about assisted dying dives headfirst into a sticky spider web of a topic but doesn’t get far with its surface-level characters. Vivienne Blackwood decides to die on the night of her 80th birthday…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre at its best. For one, I’ve now had the immense privilege of seeing, within the span of just a few days, the work of several Aufguss masters in the Sauna Theatre at Summerhall Arts. As such,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile Sami is understandably not out here to make you laugh at every joke, his up-close-and-personal hour of stand-up admittedly made me want a bit more of a bellyache and a bit more of his signature, spectacular…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSauna culture is on full display at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and Summerhall Arts seems to be its major programmer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s (JLCO’s) residency at Usher Hall, Artistic Director and world-renowned jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis decided it was time Duke Ellington’s epic suite Black, Brown, and Beige was performed as a whole again.