REVIEW: The Understudy @ Assembly, The Box

Reading Time: 2 minutesEva Seymour is an outstanding performer and an inventive writer.

Reading Time: 2 minutesEva Seymour is an outstanding performer and an inventive writer.

Reading Time: 2 minutesBloody Knees is wonderfully written, accurately capturing the bleak and blurry lifestyle of a ‘self confessed terminal layabout’.

Reading Time: 2 minutesRipple Theatre, a female-led grassroots Scottish company, brings Uncorked to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Reading Time: 2 minutes“It’s a lightning-in-a-bottle show where everyone spends a whole lot of time laughing, even though you don’t always know why.”

Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Evans’ cynical, acerbic deconstructions of modern culture have made him a fixture of both television and radio schedules for years

Reading Time: 2 minutesDee Allum isn’t afraid to take risks and frequently approaches her comedy from the angle of ‘saying it how it is’.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA writer’s big break arrives in the most unlikely of places: a mega-corporation several layers deep beneath an undisclosed parent company.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA dilapidated library is on the brink of closure, an inspector is due to arrive, and the leadership structure is in complete disarray.

Reading Time: 2 minutesMike Wozniak is a charming, effusive and lovely man – but one you would never ask for directions.

Reading Time: 2 minutesNow in his 40th year at the festival – and 27 years at The Stand and counting, the godfather of alternative comedy returns again – still experimenting and testing the boundaries of the absurd and silly.