REVIEW: Jay Jurden Takes London
Reading Time: 2 minutesJay Jurden is a prime example that great stand-up doesn't need elaborate staging.
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REVIEW: Saving Britney at Underbelly George Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesShereen Roushbaiani’s one woman show Saving Britney interrogates this question through examining the obsession with Britney Spears that defined her adolescence.
REVIEW: Deliver Us From Evil
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeliver Us From Evil trades the familiar horrors of the American witch trials for England's own blood-soaked history, plunging us into the brutal witch hunts of 17th-century Essex.
REVIEW: Horrible Histories
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor kids, this is a wonderful celebration of the enduring absurdity of human nature, especially when it comes to the so-called British sensibility. It is necessary to preface that I am not the intended demographic for this…
REVIEW: Tether 인연
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn Ideal Fringe Show Tether 인연 is everything a Fringe show should be. The show is original, experimental and packed full of heart in a tight sixty minute run time. The show is a collaboration between Scotland…
REVIEW: Age
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo former best friends run into each other at the airport. One, off on a family holiday, is perpetually tired and “smelling faintly of vomit”; the other is headed on an all-expenses-paid business trip to Amsterdam.
REVIEW: Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure??
Reading Time: 2 minutesFin is a courier by day, an illustrator by ambition and permanently one bad shift away from admitting neither is working out. She's a protagonist engineered to represent an entire generation's inability to hit any of the milestones it was promised in career, relationship or a deposit on a flat. Between the gig economy grind, the on-off boyfriend and the Catholic parents bracing for news they don't want, the premise is the familiarity of overhearing a friendgroup's chat.
REVIEW: How’s Your Head
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommissioned by the Lowry as part of their Developed With programme, ‘How’s Your Head’ is the debut stand-up show from Aarian Mehrabani, performed in the Lowry’s studio ahead of his upcoming run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
REVIEW: The Car Man
Reading Time: 2 minutesHarmony, population 375, is the kind of town where everyone knows everyone's business, until a stranger disrupts their usual routines. Matthew Bourne's The Car Man is Grease meets Carmen, in 1950s varsity jackets, cigarette smoke, girls-versus-boys posturing where the toxic masculinity is the engine block. With a stranger blowing into town and a marriage already curdling on the vine, Harmony is one Man Wanted sign away from combustion.
REVIEW: Chelsea Birkby Is In Full Control The Entire Time
Reading Time: 2 minutesBirkby strides on in full 90s guru dressed in a blazer and equipped with a remote cocked like a weapon, fully ready to teach the room how to dominate its destiny, or at least asking the audience, do we ever have control?