Reading Time: 2 minutesimaginative storytelling through rom-com tropes “Romance on Repeat” is a New Celts and Backyard Alchemy production, comprising acting and directing students from Edinburgh Napier’s MFA programmes. These shows are always worth seeking out in a packed Fringe…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBland and unexciting with a few moving moments. My Time of Life is a disappointment. What could have been a sweet reflection on life and aging was degraded by the almost apathetic reading given at Camden Fringe.…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Beautiful soprano notes and laboured imagery cannot save a problematic portrayal of women” Although I wouldn’t call myself an opera fan, I admire the athleticism of the singers and quite enjoy the heightened melodrama. Carmen is one…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This political comedy is unfortunately frenetic without focus.” I knew something was suspicious when the girls behind me found literally every line hilarious. This show, Londongrad, had all the subtlety of a brick to the head. Ostensibly,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesReturning after an entirely sold-out show last year, Gigglemug Comedy’s A Jaffa Cake Musical remounts the stage at Edinburgh Fringe for another tasty (VAT-less) snack of a run. A few years ago, I was shooting a film…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A cozy, queer little play that shivers happily away in the middle of the bustling summer Fringe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe know the story of Jaws, big scary man-eating predator that will eat you given a chance. BUT, what if they are sensitive souls? Written by Leo Thomas and directed by Thomas and Gude Yue, this piece seeks to uncover what happened on that fateful day on Amity Island.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNever meet your heroes; you may just have to write their suicide note. Bennie, played by Eleanor Shaw, is a ghostwriter residing in corporate limbo tasked with penning suicide letters for the soon to be deceased. With…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMake It Happen is James Graham’s latest stab at revitalizing the oft-forgotten zeitgeists that deeply underpin our present sociopolitical moment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUproar is an interdisciplinary performance born from the political crisis in Peru during 2022–2023, following the deaths of civilians during protests against the government of President Dina Boluarte and the Peruvian Congress.