It’s a beguilingly silly concept: ‘man is possessed by a haunted sock puppet. Chaos ensues.’ The elegance of the blurb hints at the neat writing to follow. In a tiny room in the Pleasance basement we are confronted with a lamp, a stool and an innocent looking red sock. From these humble beginnings John Luke […]

One Giant Leap is a one man-show by Iain Johnstone, presented by Wee Stories as part of the Made in Scotland programme at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013. It describes itself as ‘an impossible attempt to bring the whole universe into the theatre and into our understanding, using a tennis ball, a wastepaper basket, and a […]

It was something of a golden year for circus at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013 with some astonishing work. It’s fast creating the argument for a dedicated circus section of the brochure; ‘dance and physical theatre’ just doesn’t cut it any more, Ed Fringe. Now sort it out before a hundred angry jugglers come knocking at […]

To the tune of Roy Orbison’s In Dreams our three performers enter the space – there’s Feidlim Cannon (actor, director and co-founder of Brokentalkers theatre company) playing himself, his mother Ann playing herself, and an actor (introduced as Alan) playing their psychotherapist Eric Keller and other roles. The absent character at the heart of the […]

When Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko set up the Moscow Art Theatre – intending to rescue Russian theatre from commercialised, celebrity-obsessed mediocrity – one of their first acts was to leave Moscow and take their new ensemble on a rural retreat. Away from the routines of daily life, they sought to create a new theatre. A few […]