Lead Performance by Julia Taudevin Bouffon Direction by Tim Licata The Tron Theatre ★★★★ With current polling across the UK set for an profoundly unsettling tipping of the scales for the next general election, it’ll take more than a spoonful of sugar to make this much needed medicine go down – as a revolting death rattle … Continue reading Review: Auntie Empire at Summerhall, Edinburgh – A Darkly Comic, Bouffon-Laced Reckoning
Performed and created by Ninon Noiret Directed by Ninon Noiret and Camille Marmié The Studio ★★★★ For one evening only, Manipulate plays host to a few side-walkers, as a strange, gallows-rich humour, and tender pulse runs through The Studio Theatre as The Raft of the Crab delivers a fusion of puppetry and physical theatre that … Continue reading Review: The Raft of the Crab – The Studio, Edinburgh
Director Salvador Kent took time out of their busy schedule to have a chat with the team about the Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company's production of Romeo and Juliet, running at The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, from the 9th - 13th of February Thanks for much for taking the time to chat with us; if you wouldn’t … Continue reading Have a Gander at EUSOC: Romeo & Juliet
Written by Alan Bennett Directed by Lauren Green ★★★★ Taking one of Alan Bennett’s most wonderfully character-driven texts, there’s a restless and enviable intellectual energy that hums through Bedlam Theatre as Theatre Paradok’s staging of The History Boys delivers a sharp, heartfelt, and sturdy revival of Bennett’s beloved play. Directed by the superbly talented (and … Continue reading Review: The History Boys – Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
Artistic Direction and Choreographed by Carlos Acosta Scenography by Nina Dunn with Tyler Forward and Andrew Exeter Review by Dominic Corr The Festival Theatre ★★★★ While winter seems to be in the death-throws of a final bout of chill; a vibrant theatrical warmth fills The Festival Theatre Edinburgh as Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana bursts … Continue reading Review: Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana – The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Auntie Empire storms into Manipulate with Disaster Plan’s trademark blend of bouffon clowning, dark satire, and political bite. Led by Julia Taudevin and Kieran Hurley, the show casts Taudevin as a decaying, delusional Britannia figure inviting her “family” to revel in imperial nostalgia while confronting a far grimmer truth. Evolving through earlier versions as live‑gore cabaret, … Continue reading Have a Gander at Auntie Empire – Manipulate 2026
Lead Artist and Performed by Mamoru Iriguchi Co-Directed & Co-Designed by Fergus Dunnet Review by Dominic Corr Traverse Theatre (Manipulate Run) ★★★ A strikingly unique and compelling theatrical curiosity unfolds in Glasgow as Vanishing Point presents Size Matters, a production that stretches its central metaphor across an hour of inventive puppetry, shifting scale, and philosophical musing, landing … Continue reading Review: Size Matters – The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Directed and Choreographed by Matthew Bourne Orchestrated by Terry Davies Review by Dominic Corr The King's Theatre ★★★★ For a tale draped in crimson and ruby, the overwhelming shade of The Red Shoes tale has always been that of a symbolic sharpness of emerald: a green with envy that cuts through any of the gorgeous … Continue reading Review: The Red Shoes – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/4WkDHuGpStg Created, Directed and Performed by Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney - Ockham’s Razor Choreography by Nathan Johnston Review by Marina Funcasta The Lowry ★★★★★ “This piece is a culmination of everything we have learned in the twenty four years we have spent working together. Lets begin: Day One.” Quite an opening. Charlotte Mooney takes off her … Continue reading Review: Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator – The Place, London
Written by John Cleese Directed by Caroline Jay Ranger Review by Eloise Robertson The Edinburgh Playhouse ★★★ Fawlty Towers: The Play follows storylines from the beloved 1970s sitcom of the same name. It will charm any farce lover or Fawlty fanatic. It does what it says on the tin, and it does it very well. … Continue reading Review: Fawlty Towers – The Play – The Edinburgh Playhouse
