Review: Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet – The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh

February 12, 2026February 12, 2026Leave a comment

Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Salvator Kent The Pleasance Theatre ★★★ Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s Romeo & Juliet arrives at The Pleasance with unmistakable ambition. Salvator Kent’s direction embraces a maximalist philosophy, restoring passages often trimmed from modern stagings and allowing Shakespeare’s text to unfurl in full, contradictory … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet – The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh

Review: Auntie Empire at Summerhall, Edinburgh – A Darkly Comic, Bouffon-Laced Reckoning

February 10, 2026February 10, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: The Raft of the Crab – The Studio, Edinburgh

February 9, 2026February 11, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: The History Boys – Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh

February 7, 2026February 7, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana – The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: Size Matters – The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: The Red Shoes – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow

January 31, 2026January 31, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator – The Place, London

January 31, 2026January 31, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: Fawlty Towers – The Play – The Edinburgh Playhouse

January 28, 2026January 28, 2026Leave a comment

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

Review: Tell Me – The Place, London

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/P12_dHXCzuU Performed and Devised by Sadiq Ali, Phoebe Knight, Jonah Russell Artistic Direction by Sadiq Ali Review by Marina Funcasta The Studio (Edinburgh run) ★★★★ Sadiq Ali Company stuns with their new show, Tell Me. Taking an HIV diagnosis as a starting point, we follow Grace, played with delicacy by Phoebe Knight, as she contends … Continue reading Review: Tell Me – The Place, London