REVIEW: First Woman
Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Hickman’s First Woman is an inventive blend of stand-up comedy and live music, built around a simple but unusual concept: comedy performed with a harp.
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REVIEW: Chekhov’s Fun and Facts May Vary
Reading Time: 2 minutesChekhov's Fun and Facts May Vary are two improv groups performing at the Edinburgh International Improv Festival. We are treated to two thirty-minute sets, where the audience gives some prompts and then gets to sit back and enjoy the madness of the genre.
REVIEW: Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts at Capital Theatres
Reading Time: 2 minutesInspector Morse: House of Ghosts attempts to escape its TV roots on the Festival Theatre stage Inspector Morse has occupied a distinctive place in British culture for decades, beginning with Colin Dexter’s novels and reaching iconic status…
REVIEW: Gruesome Playground Injuries at Golden Goose
Reading Time: 2 minutesLove, scars, and thirty years of almost. Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries traces the relationship between Doug and Kayleen across three decades, presenting their story through a series of encounters that unfold out of chronological order. Each…
REVIEW: Viy
Reading Time: 2 minutesImpressive in its use of physical theatre, haunting staging and absurdist dark comedy Viy is an adaptation of the 1835 novella by Nikolai Gogol: a sinewy, monstrous story full of shadow and horror. Writer and Director Angelina…
REVIEW: Iolanthe
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Gilbert and Sullivan classic, Iolanthe was produced during the peak of the composers’ collaboration, opening on the same night in 1882 in both London and New York. This production joined the list of ‘Savoy Operas’, shows performed in the Savoy Theatre which was purposely built to showcase the work of the famed duo.
REVIEW: Saint Joan at the Citizen’s Theatre
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlistering, Bare and Impossible to Ignore Saint Joan, based on George Bernard Shaw’s classic play, comes to the Citizens’ Theatre in a stripped-back, modernised take drawn directly from the unseen screenplay. The play follows the true story…
REVIEW: Be My Cabaret
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether attending alone or on a date, Be MY Cabaret offered something for everyone. The show was, as expected, a variety piece, with many different acts all centred around the same theme: love.
REVIEW: Neave Trio
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Kings Place’s Hall One, the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio (Anna Williams on violin, Mikhail Veselov on cello, and Eri Nakamura on piano) presented an intimate journey of music through memory, love and loss.
REVIEW: The Great Wave
Reading Time: 3 minutesNamed after the artwork, The Great Wave is an opera about its creator, Katsushika Hokusai.