The Park is a tabletop puppetry performance presented by Puppet Beings Theatre which is beguiling and charming. Five puppeteers in costumes that are all black yet professionally designed manipulate 18-inch fully-articulated rod puppets to present a scene of an old man in a park and his encounters with a dog and children. The only set […]

Puddles is dressed as a Pierrot with the white silken costume, the delicately painted face and white bald head topped with a tiny golden crown decorated with a red letter P. This is where the associations with the sad clown end, as Puddles, who uses his body and face to great effect, proceeds to perform a […]

This show has a classic Edinburgh Fringe attention-grabbing premise: a musical where the characters are made from dead animals. Described as roadkill meets X-Factor, this four-performer, two-musician show takes the classic musical theatre plot (a bunch of performers want to put on a show as we watch the impresario corral the talent and deal with […]

This intimate show staged in the round has Daniel Bye sitting with us as much as standing in the space. A simple grey circle of carpet taped down in the middle seems to define the performing area and it’s telling that as Daniel talks he spends almost all of his time not standing on the […]

Catherine Wheels are innovators in work for younger audiences. Previous Total Theatre award winners, with early-years production White, their current show (which has already scooped a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) is an exciting promenade piece for older children. We are met on the steps to the basement by Dr Broderick Mackenzie, welcoming our group […]