It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And we can say with confidence, that it isn’t the Festival Fringe. That’s right folks, it’s Panto-season! Strap on those hooks, dig out the britches and slap on some lippy – as some of your favourite Panto baddies and dames return for another slice of the nation’s … Continue reading Have A Gander – Pantomime 2023
It's that time of year once more folks - as comedy, theatre, cabaret, magic and storytelling don a more ghoulish guise as they embrace the darker tales to offer tricks and treats for Edinburgh audiences. Featuring a couple of reanimated favourites, plenty of original creations, and a heaping helping of scares and frights - the … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Horror Festival 2023
With the ebbing Summer of 2023 on the horizon, and the chill of Autumn and Winter heralding in – rather than dwell on what was, we look towards a new season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre after a rousingly successful 2023 showcase that saw childhood favourites, première studio dramas, and one hell of a fiery and … Continue reading Have A Gander – Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2024 Season
Written and Performed by Emily Beecher ★★★★ Many of us lampoon the memoir solo show: it certainly makes up a staggering proportion of the Festival Fringe’s line-up. But these cathartic, brutally honest and sincere performances are often the fastest and most influential ways to connect with an audience. Summer Camp For Broken People is a prime example. So, … Continue reading Summer Camp for Broken People – Summerhall: Anatomy Lecture Theatre
https://youtu.be/kCjXLtd4I00 Based on The Book by Ben Rice Co-Created, Directed and Text by Robert Alan Evans Co-Created and Performed by Gill Robertson ★★★★ In this rather barren mining town, where ore and opal are the determining factors, young Kellyanne Williamson turns to her imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan, for emotional support: and their existence is not … Continue reading Lightning Ridge – Summerhall: Main Hall
Created by Casey Jay Andrews Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★★★ The Fringe festival is definitely not wanting in one-man shows about existential mid-life crises; scripts written by lost thirty-something-year-olds living in big cities with big dreams are rinsed and repeated, standing in self-deprecating solidarity year in and year out. And yet, ‘Oh my heart, Oh … Continue reading Oh My Heart, Oh My Home – Summerhall: Former Women’s Locker Room
Written and Directed by Jamie Armitage ★★★★ How do you think you’d react to a police interrogation? Crack? Crumble? Or do you think you’d keep up that cool bravado in the face of something altogether more serious - as the noose begins to tighten… Joanna has been missing for 68 hours. After 72, the possibility … Continue reading An Interrogation – Summerhall: Old Lab
Written by Victor Esses Composed by Enrico Aurigemma ★★★ After finding his long-lost aunt Marcelle, Victor Esses, a Jewish-Lebanese Brazilian queer theatre and film-maker, chooses to document his time spent with a woman who he deeply loves but perhaps doesn’t always like. With a myriad of family stories to tell, a lengthy distance between them, … Continue reading The Death & Life of All of Us – Summerhall: Demonstration Room
Written by Max Percy Directed by James Newton ★★★★ Baklâ, It’s a noun in Tagalog meaning homosexual, specifically of a more feminine projection. The connotations of the word spread further into the disparaging, stereotypical and slanderous - from the off writer and performer Max Percy embraces the identification, simultaneously utilising the term to share their … Continue reading Baklâ – Summerhall: Demonstration Room
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
