REVIEW: Tending
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUsing the verbatim words of over 70 NHS nurses, El Blackwood’s Tending is a well-crafted and sobering reflection on trying to save lives whilst working in a broken system.
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REVIEW: If Memory Serves
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSobriety, sex, secrets - Michael John Ciszewski has meditations on them all. And just meditations, in general.
REVIEW: Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets!
Reading Time: 2 minutesOriginally, Kafka’s “Metamorphosi” was a classic work by Franz Kafka, created with his unique existential perspective.
REVIEW: Kiran Saggu: Slacks
Reading Time: 2 minutesKiran Saggu is the first comedian to make art about wanting to tell a man on the Tube to get his dick out of her pocket. Probably.
REVIEW: Jo Griffin: Last Chance Saloon
Reading Time: 2 minutesJo Griffin is on a mission to say yes to more things. Yes to hiring child actors to get one over on “Matt Hinge” (although a non-speaking role, not at those prices), yes to model-esque lollipop ladies, and yes using Colombian business woman Griselda Blanco as a role model.
REVIEW: Ruby Carr: eBae
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s always fun to see how the pre-show music translates to the show itself. With Ruby Carr’s show eBae, we’re setting the scene with Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop”, before Madonna’s “Material Girl” has the audience humming along, and Ruby enters to the Kaiser Chiefs “Ruby” (of course).
REVIEW: We used to be girl scouts
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We Used To Be Girl Scouts” is one of nine shows being performed at this year’s Fringe, by students and recent graduates of the acting and directing programmes from Edinburgh Napier.
REVIEW: Float
Reading Time: 2 minutesFloat is a new production by Northern Irish writers Kirby Thompson and Orla Graham, co-directed by Thompson and Caoimhe McGee.
REVIEW: Fortune Bistro
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Fortune Bistro” presents an interesting and meaningful concept that attempts to explore the relationship between Eastern traditional cultures and modern technology.
REVIEW: Will Shea, Won’t Shea?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo one else is going to romanticize your life for you, so why not orchestrate your own romantic comedy as a one woman show to make sense of the fact you are a lesbian?