A brand new mind-bending theatrical experience. Prepare to have your reality rewritten... Following sold-out shows around the world, Ben Hart returns with a brand new show – his most astonishing and impossible yet. An entirely unique voice in magic, Ben Hart brings together enthralling storytelling, sharp wit and indisputable charm, to create magic shows that … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – The Remarkable Ben Hart
Joey is a Bad Gay™. He's never had sex with a man, not even once. But tonight is the night, and he is determined to make sure he will not die a virgin. Filled with Catholic guilt, internalised homophobia and fear of the local GAA lads – Joey embarks on a hapless quest to 'get … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Homo(sapien)
Written by Rona Munro Directed by Orla O’Loughlin Tickets from £27.50 ★★★ While the bonfire of masculine history chars pages of Scotland’s heritage - it is the stories of women that can burn brightest. Someone just has to tell them first. Despite the balancing act of regal storytelling, hidden and repressed queer history, and a … Continue reading Review: James V: Katherine – The Studio, Edinburgh
Written and Directed by Alexander Cook ★★★ The extent to one’s devotion can know no bounds – a dangerous concept when considering how far some will take their vows. And there is no denying that the church's influence on rural communities is as vice-like as its coppers in the city banks. Schism captures a thrillingly macabre … Continue reading Schism – Augustine United Church
Created by Unqualified Design Studio ★★★★ Who shall cast the first stone? Strictly, the performative elements of Without Sin lay resoundingly in the hands of the participants, such being the nature of an immersive experience. There are introductory elements and closure to the piece, narrated well and aided tremendously in soothing wary ‘sinners’ into the make-shift confessional … Continue reading Without Sin – Summerhall Courtyard
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Tim Rice Directed by Izzy Ponsford ★★★ Locating the humanity, the extremes within the psychology of biblical figures, Jesus Christ Superstar breathes an intentional juxtaposition into politics, the church, misplaced adoration, and now gender composites. One of the most successful, indeed complicated, sung-through western musicals – Andrew Lloyd Webber and … Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar – Churchill Theatre
https://youtu.be/4YZZxxd1Co0 Written by Anthony McCarten Directed by James Dacre ★★★★ With an audience of around 1.2 billion (give or take), the incumbent Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, is arguably one of the world’s most influential and powerful men. And his elective to the Papacy was met with a welcoming warmth by those … Continue reading The Two Popes – Royal & Derngate
Written by Joe Hunter Directed by Rachel Fraser ★★★ Moot Point Collective, a queer-led creative company bring Joe Hunter’s new writing piece, Kneecaps, to the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh. A surreal, and a darkly comic piece which seeds questions surrounding queer identity in a hostile world around the survival mechanics of a life-threatening epidemic. Isolated … Continue reading Kneecaps – Assemby Roxy
https://youtu.be/94H4DXic9CY Based on the work of C. S. Lewis Directed by Michael Fentiman ★★★★★ It has been winter for one hundred years, but now, Spring is returning. And while you may be forgiven with mistaking this land of tundra and lamplight for the brisk Scottish night, Edinburgh welcomes an entirely different realm of magic with The … Continue reading The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe – King’s Theatre
https://youtu.be/GQb-5KLm5hU Written & Directed by Onur Tukel 2021/ USA/ 98 mins ★★★ In Spring of 2020, at the height of the initial lockdowns, were images that will find a place throughout history books: the streets of London, Hong Kong, Venice and even New York abandoned and silent – concrete metropolises silenced for the first time … Continue reading Scenes From An Empty Church – Review
