A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New Orleans – Arts Theatre

Another summer and another production of “the Dream” and each year someone tries to do it in a different way and with varying degrees of success. So when I heard that theatre company Ruby in the Dust were setting one of my favourite Shakespeare plays in New Orleans and infusing it with the music of […]

Fewer Emergencies – Moors Bar

Ah a writer’s life. We get up late, have a glass of wine, bash out a story and then go to some fancy party where we schmooze with other writers, the beautiful, the famous and the desperate. Oh and we get paid for it – how glamorous we all are. Oh wait, that’s all complete […]

Pussy – Laughing Horse @ The Counting House

The advertising of this late night Edinburgh show is intriguing. “5 girls, 1 stage, It’s not about Cats” is all the information it gives away. What are you supposed to take from that? Well I went along expecting some foul mouthed comedy from women talking about their body parts in a Vagina Monologues style show. […]

As Is – Bedlam Theatre

“I’ll take you as is” – the words we all long to hear from a loved one. This play is set during the 1980’s AIDS epidemic. Saul and Rich are splitting up their belongings after a break up (Rich left Saul for another man). But Saul still desperately wants to work things out and have […]