‘Hello, I’m professor Einstein,’ declares John Hinton as he greets each audience member, playing a young Einstein with the mad hair and thick accent that you’d expect. He is undoubtedly endearing and warm and promises to be an entertaining host for our physics lecture, but unfortunately the lecture part of this piece overwhelms what are […]

Berlin (who come from Belgium, not Germany!) are known to Total Theatre for their previous UK appearance with the complex and intriguing Land’s End, seen at the Brighton Festival 2012 – part large-scale installation, part film, and part live performance. That show investigated the life and crimes of a town that was sited on the border of […]

As I wander down St Stephen Street I hear a guitar and a mouth organ picking out a jaunty tune behind me. ‘Ah, the Fringe!’ I think to myself. ‘Little eruptions of art everywhere.’ But in fact the small caravan of music and audience behind me are the promenade wing of Pint Dreams, a travelling […]

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 […]