Created by Roger White, in collaboration with the team Review by Eve Nugent Summerhall - Main Hall ★★★★ Obscure haze slowly fills the auditorium, ominous red lights rise, and an eery soundscape begins – the haunting atmosphere of Because You Never Asked is immediately established. Produced by Montréal-based company We All Fall Down, this show on the main stage at Summerhall is … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Because You Never Asked
Written by Hannah Moscovitch Directed by Christian Barry Review by Eve Nugent Traverse Theatre ★★★★★ Lauren has asked Luke to narrate her life on her behalf – she sits quietly on a raised platform, hoping to better understand herself by observing from the outside. Luke accepts the task and opens the story by describing her recent mental … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Red Like Fruit
Written by Annie Lareau Review by Marina Funcasta Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Above all else, Fuselage emerges as a play about the past - historical events, blurred memories, and present loss are tightly bound to every word uttered by writer and actor, Annie Lareau. And trust me, there’s a lot of them. Yet, there is something … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Fuselage
Written by Alice Humphries Review by Eve Nugent Bedlam Theatre ★★★★ Set entirely in a carriage of the London Underground – complete with six seats, a map of the tube, an advert for “Musk: the everything fragrance” – this Edinburgh University Theatre Company production of ‘The End of the Line’ delivers a powerful message on … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The End of the Line
Written by Huw Turnbull Directed by Minnie Cross Review by Gabriel Rogers ★★★★ In Huw Turnbull's Venison, directed by Minnie Cross, Bedlam Theatre transforms into an intimate dining room where audience members become unexpected dinner guests at a macabre murder mystery that would make Agatha Christie proud. Despite the winter chill, the show's talented designers create … Continue reading Review: Venison – Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
Class Act - March featured work from Firrhill High School, Craigroyston High School, Tynecastle High School, Leith Academy as well as Intercultural Youth Scotland Class Act Ukraine in Scotland 2024 - Tickets: £5.00 (Con. available) Nurturing talents and unlocking potential for sixty years has been a core ethos for the Traverse Theatre. While many talented new … Continue reading Have a Gander: Class Act – Traverse Theatre
Written by Rob Drummond Directed by Robert Softley Gale Review by Josie Rose Tickets from £15.00 (Con. Available) ★★★★ When will Britain be truly accessible for all? Monday 13 July, 2037 apparently. At least, it is in the eyes of Ralph, proudly contributing to the make-up of the new system. ‘We listened’ he repeats, as … Continue reading Review: Don’t. Make. Tea – The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Hosted by Dance Base Artistic Director Tony Mills Featuring Work from Wayne Chang, Jennifer Cullen, Julia Lau, Joshua Effi and Ursula Manandhar Additional Information May Be Located Here There are two areas of Scotland’s cultural majesty which often find themselves with a (perceived) barrier of accessibility for new or unfamiliar audiences - Spoken Word and Dance. And where tremendous groups like Loud Poets or celebrations of … Continue reading Have a Gander: Live & Direct Hip Hop Showcase – Dance Base, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/UnTAHS1zznA Devised by Jo Mango and Liam Hurley Directed by Liam Hurley Co-musical Direction by Jo Mango & Louis Abbott A sense of freedom breaths life through the cluttered, though comforting, Traverse stage tonight: a life-giving sense of release and opportunity that few of us can say we’ve felt. The closest most of us come … Continue reading Review: A Giant On The Bridge – Traverse Theatre
Directed and Produced Flavia D’Avila Written by Marta Massé ★★★★ What does it mean to be a woman? A question which seems to enrage or bemuse the average MP, the question of what makes us who we are, what makes us human, is a profoundly personal one – for as much as we like to … Continue reading Review: La Niña Barro – Assembly Roxy
