Reading Time: 3 minutesA gloriously unhinged, sweat-soaked clown masterclass that turns the entire audience into championship contenders Forget everything you think you know about competitive sports. Chase Brantley’s Don Toberman: Ping-Pong Champ takes the familiar spectacle of high-stakes American television,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Roleplay, writer and performer Hannah Reilly leads the room with easy charm, sharp skill, and an infectious, lively spirit.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Bob Ross Effect is a wonderfully warm, creative, and moving piece of interactive theatre. From the opening moments, the show creates a lovely atmosphere, immediately drawing the audience into its calm, joyful, and imaginative world.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTemi Wilkey’s Lover Girl, staged at Pleasance Courtyard for the Edinburgh Fringe, is a riotous, razor-sharp dissection of modern romance, queer sexuality, and the exhausting pursuit of self-worth.
Reading Time: 2 minutesForget everything you think you know about Hamlet. Hotter Project’s HAM takes Shakespeare’s familiar tragedy, throws it into the middle of the climate crisis and adds veganism, animal rights, sexual shame, audience participation and a frankly bewildering amount of theatrical chaos.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnderground Monk Show is a wonderfully strange, playful and entertaining piece of clown theatre.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIsabella Thompson’s Plaything is a wonderfully joyous piece of theatre that invites its audience into a world of clever comedy, playful characters and brilliantly unexpected moments
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Distance is an athletically impressive, beautifully written and ultimately hopeful piece of theatre, drawing on Ben Norris’s own journey as a former GB long-distance runner.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlayback takes us inside the digital world of a young Euan Munro, using real footage from his childhood to create a funny, nostalgic and ultimately devastating journey through growing up, finding an audience online and discovering that not everyone watching has good intentions.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a brilliant premise at the heart of Kirsty Mann: Corpse: a couple buy a suspiciously cheap old house, only to discover that the previous occupant may not have quite left it behind.