Reading Time: 2 minutesPierre Novellie’s sharp, incisive observations see him performing two distinct shows at this year’s Fringe: a best-of compilation, and Okay, One More Then Bedtime, which explores the wedding and Japanese honeymoon that bookended his packed tour schedule over the last year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAidan Greene’s big heart and warm laughter make him a firm favourite on YouTube’s The Try Channel, eating, drinking and playing games on-camera.
Reading Time: 2 minutes'This claustrophobic confrontation between a mother and social worker has a few too many twists to be believable but is most compelling when it forces the audience to sit with its moral ambiguity.'
Reading Time: 2 minutesSitting (In Silence) opens with a spiritual gong, which reverberates around the beautiful old anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall.
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 minutesA thorough and touching exploration of the famed Russian composer Even to modern-day audiences, the name Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has a newfound relevance, with his music dominating social media trends in consistent cycles. Audiences will also recognise…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA work-in-progress tribute to Japan and romance Sam Joseph is an English up-and-coming comedian who has spent the past thirty years alternating between life in Britain and Japan. In his 50-minute set, which he says is a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWell acted and thoughtfully staged, though a little heavy-handed with its sincerity Four women, one birthday, three decades. Evelyn (Jess Dix) is turning something across childhood, adolescence and adulthood with every version of the party played out…
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 minutesUniquely bizarre energy that challenges the audience and brings the laughs As soon as Casey Filips comes onto the stage we know we are in for something totally unique. We meet four characters throughout the show: a…