Directed by Sophie Davis Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ There are certain groups you can always count on to deliver excellence. Edinburgh University Footlights is one of those rare few. There’s something uniquely thrilling about watching this group of performers assemble onstage with nothing but the barest scaffolding of a narrative and the promise of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh University Footlights Present Talk It Out- The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Review by Libbi Hutton Summerhall - Dissection Room ★★★★★ ‘Pussy Riot was never a punk band’ states Alexander Cheparukhin, producer of the show. I am standing in a crowded audience on the final night of an 11-day run, preparing myself for what I’ve heard to be a “confrontational” and “essential” show. Maria (Masha) Alyochina of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Pussy Riot: Riot Days
Written by Sophie Swithinbank Directed by Nancy Medina Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall: Tickets ★★★★ Onstage stands an empty chair as the audience takes their seats in the Tech Cube, awaiting playwright Sophie Swithinbank’s return to Summerhall after the soaring success of last year’s sell-out sensation and collaboration with HFH Productions, Bacon. Behind the chair … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Surrender
Musical Direction by Ed Zander Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★ Sitting in Pleasance’s Queen Dome, aptly the fringe home of a queen of the West End, the audience titters excitedly for Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret, which promises to be an afternoon of song, dance, and a response to the ongoing climate … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret
Produced by Sweet Beef and Pleasance Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★★ Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenue, one and all to the Cabaret Fragile! Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your…lonely self. Crying Shame is a spectacle of cabaret, camp, clowning, and, most importantly, serving a whole evening’s worth of another c-word *censored*. Come … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Crying Shame
Review by Annie Aslett ★★★★★ Reuben Kaye is undeniably a once-in-a-generation star. As an audience member, one is painfully aware of being in the presence of unadulterated talent. With a glorious cacophony of razor-sharp wit, show-stopping vocals, scathing crowd work, biting satire, emotional profundity and a fierce beat, the constellation of 5-star reviews adorning Kaye’s … Continue reading Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back – Palais du Variete
Written by Lewis Hetherington Directed by Sophie Howell ★★★ A vet. A psychiatrist. A sorcerer. A filmmaker or a chef. A Power Rangers villain. These were all avenues which, at one point, I seriously considered undertaking (still working on that last one). And the idea that in another universe, only marginally different to our own, these aspirations … Continue reading The Multiverse is Gay – Royal Lyceum Theatre
Libretto & Music by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Directed by Fraser Grant Choreography and Assistant Direction by Sally Franks Musical Direction by Kathleen Davie ★★★★ Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group reimagine the well-known and loved Gilbert & Sullivan classic H.M.S Pinafore as a light-hearted comedic cabaret. The cast, crew and musicians take the audience on a … Continue reading H.M.S. Pinafore – Bedlam Theatre
Directed by Katie Slater Produced by Aisling Anderson Musical Direction by Falk Mieir ★★★★★ Come rabble, royalty, nobility and rogue – for a Bohemian celebration which claims the Assembly Roxy as it’s own. Returning with their Showchoir, the Edinburgh University Footlights aim to celebrate their namesake: melody. A collection of muses, EUFootlights Bohemia Showchoir amasses various showtunes, rock n’ … Continue reading Bohemia: Showchoir – Assembly Roxy
Written, Direction and Co-Production Design by Sarah Holmes Dramaturge by Clive Andrews ★★★★ The most devastating traps begin in benign, even pleasant ways. For Daisy, the encircling barrier forming her entrapment comes in the form of one of our most naïve traditions: love at first sight. Well, perhaps not as severe as this, but upon (quite literally) … Continue reading Arthropoda – MANIPULATE Festival 2023
