REVIEW: Fool’s Gold @ theSpace on the Mile
Reading Time: 2 minutesA clumsily-written farce about modern-day grave robbing
Category ★★☆☆☆
REVIEW: Secrets Secrets Shhh! @ Underbelly George Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesCoatgirl is working the back-of-house drudgery of her ten-year school reunion, banished to the coat room while her peers enjoy the party.
REVIEW: Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities @ C ARTS
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAny attempt to bring Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities to life is laudable. His whimsical, imaginative neo-fables exist in the hinterland between philosophy, science and fantasy, making them indisputably difficult to translate into any other medium.
REVIEW: BLISS The Musical @ Pleasance Courtyard
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn paper, BLISS has all the ingredients of a West End hit. Produced by the powerhouse team behind Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller, and boasting a cast stacked with West End performers, expectations were naturally high. On the outside, it looks exceptionally promising.
REVIEW: Churchill’s Urinal
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore of a slow trickle than a roaring torrent of laughs
REVIEW: The Bodyguard: The Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn entertaining, but fatal blow to the musical theatre scene.
REVIEW: The Murmuration of Starlings
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhatever its sci-fi thriller marketing might suggest, at its heart The Murmuration of Starlings is a gentle exploration of memory loss, with The Predator representing dementia’s creeping influence.
REVIEW: The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by LeCoq and RADA trained Tommaso Giacomin, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is labelled an ‘absurdist, existential examination… marinating in the violence, complicity and paradox of modern life’.
REVIEW: 1.17am, or until the words run out
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Zoe Hunter Gordon and directed by Sarah Stacey, 1.17am or until the words run out is an intimate depiction of grief and friendship that eventually packs a punch.
REVIEW: Absence of Youth at Golden Goose Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn interesting premise – with sadly, an absence of anything new to say Absence of Youth is a short 45-minute play, centring on five characters who have been thrown together in the wake of a zombie apocalypse,…