https://youtu.be/XSNI7IZqhkQ Written and adapted by Manjeet Mann Directed by Tessa Walker Review by Jack Quinn Pilot Theatre: Touring ★★★★ Run, Rebel, adapted from Manjeet Mann’s award-winning verse novel, is a gripping exploration of rebellion and self-discovery, delivered with unflinching honesty at Theatre Peckham. Directed by Tessa Walker and produced by Pilot Theatre, this production offers … Continue reading Review: Run, Rebel – Theatre Peckham, London
Written by Lyndon Chapman Review by Jack Quinn Underbelly Cowgate ★★★★ Navigating the liminal spaces between humour and despair, Lyndon Chapman’s Is the Wi-Fi Good in Hell? is a raw, deeply personal exploration of trauma, identity, and the relentless search for belonging. Set against the backdrop of a society that often overlooks those on the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Is the WiFi Good in Hell
Written and Directed by Ois O'Donoghue Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Former Women's Locker Room ★★★★ In the intimate, sweat-drenched confines of Summerhall's Former Women's Locker Room, HYPER by Ois O'Donoghue and Jaxbanded Theatre envelops the audience in an intense, visceral experience that blurs the line between performer and spectator. This play is not for … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – HYPER
Created by Buzzcut Productions Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Buzzcut Productions combines cameras, puppets, diorama sets and a remarkably peculiar story to create a spellbinding, though uncanny, depiction of rural English suburbia. Emerging from a similar world to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Coraline, this Wonderland is, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bark Bark
Written and Performed by Katie Greenall Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Techcube 0 ★★★★ Blubber is an evocative and immersive piece by Katie Greenall that artfully combines storytelling with participatory elements, making it a standout show this year. The performance invites the audience into a shared space, where the themes of communal care and connection are … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Blubber
https://youtu.be/QlVJcaCk4Is Written and Directed by Seb Elder Review by Gabriel Rogers Greenside @ Riddles Court ★★★★ Third Culture Productions' debut fringe show boldly explores how grief and the climate crisis affect a young family and their friend. No Place Called Home, written and directed by Seb Elder, doesn’t stage the climate crisis at ground zero but instead in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – No Place Called Home
https://youtu.be/WHxFMFv1iOw Created by Tom Bailey Review by Gabriel Rogers Zoo Southside ★★★★★ Tom Bailey’s Vigil is a delicate love letter to the lesser-known and more interestingly named fauna which lives or, rather upsettingly, has ceased to live on planet Earth. The show begins comically as Bailey attempts, with great success, to mimic and clown 26,000 … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vigil
Written by Nick Cassenbaum' Directed by Emma Jude Harris, Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★★ As we enter the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, an event is already occurring. Onstage sit Gemma Barnett and Dylan Corbett-Bader, intensely awaiting the opportunity to launch into the roaring farce of REVENGE: After the Levoyah. Describing this play … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – REVENGE: After the Levoyah
Produced by TheatreGoose Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Looming over the Anatomy Lecture Theatre hangs a canvas sheet, encasing the audience in a night of magical storytelling reminiscent of the March sisters’ plays in Little Women. While there are nods to Louisa May Alcott’s novel, the heart of Theatre Goose’s Sisters … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Sisters Three
Produced by Sh!t Theatre and Soho Theatre Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Techcube 0: Tickets ★★★★ Sh!t Theatre’s Or What’s Left of Us is a raw, captivating exploration of grief and resilience, cleverly wrapped in the duo’s signature blend of music, comedy, and storytelling. Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole, the dynamic force behind Sh!t Theatre, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Sh!t Theatre: Or What’s Left of Us
