The dark comedy of this play, which deals with the hardships of raising a disabled child, is wonderfully brought to life in this production by an exceptional young cast. Of particular note is Jeremy Smith’s confident performance as Brian, which shows a maturity well beyond his years. Comic timing is essential in this [...]

With the finest improvisation game that I’ve seen from any Fringe show this year (or in other years) this comedy sketch show is well worth staying up for it’s almost midnight curtain up time. Written and performed by two newcomers to the Fringe, the Beginners Guide to the Fringe is allegedly a show with all [...]

Product sees playwright Mark Ravenhill’s return to the Fringe and his acting debut. Ravenhill plays a filmmaker pitching his newest script to young starlet Amy, over whom he paws and purrs as the salesman turned showman. The screenplay and product in question is ‘Mohammed & Me’ – a tale of love, lust and [...]

Another Sci-Fi offering from Festival Theatre USA to complement their Star Wars in Thirty Minutes Opus, Science Fiction Blast Off Theatre is a collection of short vignettes in the style of the late 50s pulp SF anthology TV shows. Think sketch comedy with an interesting twist to make you think at the end once you [...]

Hush is a fascinating and frightening study of domestic violence and mental illness. Griff (Alex Palmer) convinces himself that his wife Lydia (Juliet Cowan) is having an affair and in order to confirm her betrayal imagines he is talking to their unborn child Jack.
Such a premise obviously requires an enormous suspension of disbelief from [...]

Being able to hold the stage and the audience’s attention for an hour is the main challenge of this production. Regrettably there is an awkwardness to this performance which goes beyond any traits of the title character, Valentine Day, whose monologue this is. Fortunately there are moments in which the stage does come [...]

Promising to be both historical and hysterical, this production certainly provides an interesting montage of the conspiracies, truths and untruths surrounding the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Retold by Marguerite Oswald, LHO’s mother, as part of her son’s posthumous court case this show explores the mystery surrounding one of America’s most infamous citizens[...]

Setting up camp – no pun intended – in Edinburgh’s Meadows for the duration of the Fringe are the Ladyboys of Bangkok: an all singing, all dancing and surprisingly all male cabaret. Consisting of karaoke favourites and dancing, by both performers and audience, this is a show aimed at spectacle – as its title [...]

The stranger of the title is Mac 9Ben Sillitoe), a forgotten friend, who arrives unexpectedly on Gill and his wife’s doorstep. Throughout the course of the play Mac tries to manipulate the tensions in this struggling family to his own end, only to realise that he has unleashed his ruthless will to survive in [...]

Slickly produced and powerfully performed this is a crash course on the German political playwright Bertolt Brecht. Excerpts from some of his better known plays (The Threepenny Opera) are mixed with scenes from lesser performed works and the sound of a rare interview with Brecht himself. The performers of Brentwood Theater Company are [...]