Reading Time: 3 minutesA fun but slightly confused imagining of Mozart’s famous opera Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is taking to the stage in Opera Kipling’s new, ninety-minute production. All the action in this opera occurs on the day of servants Susannah and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesunpredictable improv Last year, Dru Cripps found the props for his Fringe show had been accidentally thrown out, so this year he’s back with no props (aside from a loop machine attached to him) and a completely…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe subtleties of Tooley’s writing get a little lost in the noise Directed by Jez Davess-Humphrey, Jacqueline Tooley’s Doomsday Baby takes place in the aftermath of a climate collapse event, following a mother (Jodyanne Fletcher Richardson) and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA tightly paced comedy that uses humour to explore themes of trauma, relationships and renewal within the confines of a single day. I went into Collapse expecting a brooding reflection on loss and recovery, but instead I…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of improvisational ritual that caters a bit too attentively to the goofiness of its late-night audience and doesn’t follow through on the poignant interactive experience it promises. I could try to write something poignant about…
Reading Time: 2 minutesKate Owens’ show “Cooking with Kathryn” is a show about Kathryn, a woman from the American South who has inherited a TV cooking show, hosted in the basement of her local church, after the recent death of her mother.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY SARAH TRAVIS AND RICHARD STIRLING.
FROM THE NOVEL BY SIR COMPTON MACKENZIE.
DIRECTED BY PAUL FOSTER.
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 minutesA spectacle about legacy and individuality. Diving into the life of a frankly deplorable but fabulous aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget, this short musical sets out to be obvious in its condemnation of queer erasure throughout history. Regrettably,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesPoignant and laugh out loud funny – a great way to start the Fringe! Grace Mulvey, Irish comedian, takes us on a morbidly funny journey through her early life experiences where death and frequent funeral attendance is…