Bella with White Collar, I and the Village, The Fiddler, The Praying Jew, The Birthday… We know and love these Chagall paintings – they feed our souls and invade our dreams – and here they are recreated live on stage in Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, which charts the great love story of Marc […]

Circus Hub: two shows, one from Australia’s Circa, possibly the world’s number one circus company, who bring Humans to this year’s Fringe; and the other is just the second show from UK based Barely Methodical Troupe, whose sparkling first show Bromance won a Total Theatre Award. Their new show is called Kin.  Let’s start with […]

This innovative production is very well suited to the intimate tent setting of the Pleasance Courtyard’s Green Venue, designed as it is for theatre-in-the-round. The production appealed to me in terms of its interactive billing as a ‘360 degree swivel-seat experience’, where the audience have some autonomy of decision over their view of the play […]

Dancing Brick’s production certainly made me feel like I’d been hit in the face by one – in a good way! We are implored not to reveal the awesome twists that Thomas Eccleshare’s taut and wonderful play takes (always tricky in a review) but when they come, the gasps from the audience are certainly akin […]

Give Me Your Love. Give Me Your Love. GIVE ME YOUR LOVE. Yes, yes, yes – Ridiculusmus slay me with a beautifully written, gorgeously designed and staged, magnificently performed show that leaves me weeping. There’s an elephant in the room here. Except it’s not an elephant, it’s a brown cardboard box stabbed with ragged holes. […]