Reading Time: 3 minutesExploring existentialism, ego and unrequited love, Beyond Krapp is a dark comedy that follows Cormac, a dead man, as he overhears his own funeral from the void of purgatory. The writer and performer, Peter McCormick, was also recently named on the longlist for the David McLennan Award with A Play, A Pie, and A Pint, for which he is writing a new play about love and manipulation.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWritten and performed by BAFTA nominee Yolanda Mercy, Failure Project is a “Comedy drama... Or “dramedy” about Ade. Ade is a successful writer, or so it seems. She has everything she has ever wanted; her career is flying, she’s (kinda) moved out of her mums house, her situationship isn’t as complicated as she expected. Life is perfect?! But things don’t always go how you plan, and Ade is about to find that out?
Reading Time: 3 minutesShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show put on a masterful performance of raucous laugh out loud fun. With improvised comedy being a tough nut to crack, and even harder combined with the language and tropes of Shakespeare, the ShakeItUp cast had taken on a hard task. However, they absolutely rose to it, bringing the whole audience along a journey of fun and frivolity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night at HERE at Outernet, I witnessed a unique fusion that closed this year’s Pride with a spectacular bang: Classical Drag. Fronted by conductor Oliver Zeffman and Creative Producer Jack Cullen, this event was a groundbreaking blend of classical music and drag performance—a concept so unconventional, promising a lot, and almost delivering it but not quite.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAcclaimed multi award winning poet Luke Wright is taking his brand new show Luke Wright: Joy! to the Edinburgh Fringe, performing every day at Pleasance Dome from 31 July to 13 August at 14.55.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHersh Dagmarr’s show is described as a love letter to London in the words and music of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and an ode to finding one’s home.
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames Rowland Dies at the End of the Show is the third and final part of the trilogy which began with critically-acclaimed, sell-out shows, Learning to Fly and Piece of Work, from the creator of the Songs of Friendship Trilogy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesREVENGE: After the Levoyah is a comic two-hander about Jewish Essex twins Dan and Lauren.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEdward Tripp - the former Bard of Exeter - makes his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this August with a brand new comedy-poetry show, Edward Tripp: No Man is an Ireland.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe arrival of summer can mean only one thing – the open-air performances have begun. One such option available to audiences seeking a sunny(ish) setting is Shakespeare in the Squares’ charming production of All’s Well That Ends Well.