I was fortunate to catch the final twenty-five minutes of Aurora Nova’s large scale show in the ‘Hogwarts’ school quad. The location is superb. Tucked behind the vast gothic buildings, it is an enclosed square with a dominant tower and corner staircases heading spookily upwards. There is a sense of awe and hush from the […]

This performance is placed in a sideshow carnival circus world, and is presented by Fittings Multimedia Arts, a Liverpool based disability led arts organisation – most of the spoken word is also signed by Kinny Gardner and Caroline Parker, Sally Clay playing the bearded lady on the keyboards is sight impaired and Garry Robson plays […]

The tiny space of the Underbelly’s Wee Coo seems appropriate for a musical duo who tour by accepting invitations to play in the living rooms, sheds and social spaces of people recommended by previous audience members. Thus begins a night of songs sung in close harmony, including some wonderfully funny song lyrics; a huge variety […]

This one-woman show written and performed by Lowri Jenkins is very simply staged using translucent vertical blue drapes and quite a lot of lemons. Chronicling a young woman’s transition from rural to big city life – through a series of phone calls to her mum, visits to the shop, and attempts to find work (and […]

Writer and performer Sonya Kelly had a Dublin Fringe hit with The Wheelchair on my Face a few years ago, an autobiographical storytelling piece about her eyesight. A mix of stand-up and memoir, the show confirmed Kelly as a writer of wit, well able to connect to audiences’ hearts. How to Keep an Alien is […]