This is a deeply affecting, highly realistic and immersive production. The action of this incredibly intense two-hander exploring the sex trade takes place entirely in a car driven round the suburbs of Edinburgh by an actor, with one other actor in the car, plus only two audience members as passengers. This is itself obviously highly […]

The Iranian director Nassim Soleimanpour first came to prominence in the UK in 2012 when his play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit was first staged. This was a play with no rehearsals, no director, and a script that the solitary actor only saw the moment play began. At the time, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit was interpreted […]

Ghost Quartet, presented in the Roundabout tent, to the rear of the Summerhall venue,  is billed as ‘a haunted song cycle… a raucous chamber musical’. It is a song cycle about ‘love, death, and whiskey… four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.’ The impressive quartet of the title comprises two men and two women, […]

Catch em if you can! All the way from Quebec – although in this case, Quebec City rather than Montreal – come Flip Fabrique, with a feel-good street-wise circus show that gets down with the kids. There’s a bunch of friends reunited,  there’s beat-boxing, there’s trampolining, there’s big red bouncy balls, there’s chalking on walls., […]

Four chairs, four performers – two male, two female. A rope, a tying-up game – which turns into a powerful corde lisse routine by Lauren Hurley (who was first seen seen and admired by Total Theatre in previous show What Will Have Been). The frenetic soundtrack breaks into a cheesy Cha Cha and all four […]