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. […]

This interactive solo piece from Iraqi-Belgian theatre maker Enkidu Khaled is part lecture, part workshop, part direct audience address, but always complex and often fascinating. At its core, it seeks to address the universal age-old question ‘can art save the world?’ This is lent extra weight by the production’s context, for as the show progresses […]

Dorothy Max Prior encounters the force that is Liz Aggiss, whose show Slap and Tickle comes to the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 as part of the British Council Showcase. ‘I stage a revolt against the mundane and banal through the re-appropriation of glamour and beauty. I am a one-woman operation; performing, directing myself, writing texts, sorting […]