East End Cabaret are a female double act who are extremely charismatic, extremely talented musicians, extremely talented comedic fools, and extremely rude! Everything about them is EXTREME. They are Bernadette Byrne, the tall vampy one, dressed in black with a black Weimar cabaret bob of a hairstyle, pale skin and wide red-rouged lips ready to […]

Nothing Is Really Difficult features three men (Toon Kuijpers, Dorus van der Meer and Bart Strijbos from Dutch Theatergroep WAK) and an audience in a box – a very big box! On arriving at the venue, a space just outside the George Square Theatre, we find the upside-down wooden box. We know it’s upside down because […]

It is always a delightful experience to watch a show where the line between spectator and performer is tenuous to the point that the audience believes that they are participating in a dialogue, and not watching a theatrical presentation in monologue form. That’s what happens in The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, created and performed by […]

Summerhall’s main hall is sold out and sweltering, and there is much anticipation around renowned Polish innovators Song of the Goat’s latest production. Never having experienced their work before I had no idea what to expect, but what I found was something quite unique. Director Grzegorz Bral welcomes us and explains that the company have […]

Little Cauliflower’s The Night of the Big Wind is a charming puppet show about a small boy who lives with his father, a fisherman in a small village, and the night that their little community is beset by a great storm. The puppeteers sing and play their way through this simple tale, told with tabletop puppets, plenty […]