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.
Category Theatre
REVIEW: SpitNights – Poetry Meets Improv Jazz @ The Space Symposium Hall
Reading Time: 2 minutesSetting to improvised music the words of a wonderful lineup of poets, SpitNights are on a mission to increase poetry’s audience and have become the fastest growing poetry event in the UK.
REVIEW: Jitters @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesEntering the theatre to an EDM-corrupted bridal waltz (and, I guess, from the title of the show), it’s clear Charlotte’s wedding might not go ahead.
REVIEW: Plaything @ Nicolson Square
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIsabella Thompson’s Plaything is a wonderfully joyous piece of theatre that invites its audience into a world of clever comedy, playful characters and brilliantly unexpected moments
REVIEW: By A Thread @ Assembly
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’d like to discover greater heights, and a new appreciation for the ground beneath your feet, with By a Thread may be the show for you.
REVIEW: The Distance @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Distance is an athletically impressive, beautifully written and ultimately hopeful piece of theatre, drawing on Ben Norris’s own journey as a former GB long-distance runner.
REVIEW: Playback @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlayback takes us inside the digital world of a young Euan Munro, using real footage from his childhood to create a funny, nostalgic and ultimately devastating journey through growing up, finding an audience online and discovering that not everyone watching has good intentions.
REVIEW: Forget About Me at Below @ Pleasance Courtyard
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is difficult to say what really haunted Dylan Howells’ childhood bathroom, but he brings it straight into the venue for ‘Forget About Me’.
REVIEW: The Time Of Your Life @ The Voodoo Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat happens when 19 Gaullier trained clowns walk into a bar? A playful mix of chaos and comedy, if this immersive revival of William Sayoran’s The Time Of Your Life is anything to go by.
REVIEW: Fractured @ Underbelly
Reading Time: 2 minutesFractured opens with a brain-damaged teenager being cross-examined, mixing up her words under scrutiny.