REVIEW: Lost in Thought (Underbelly) ★★★
I really like the premise of being stuck in a toilet freaking out when you’re on a date (we’ve all been there) and the lovely thing about this script is it doesn’t go in the direction you think assume it will. In fact it takes a very dark turn. Lovely! We meet Felicity in the […]
REVIEW: Brexit (Pleasance) ★★★★
There’s a lot of Brexit at this year’s Fringe but this show is probably the starriest. Written by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, the team behind other Edinburgh hit shows, and starring Timothy Bentinck, Jo Caulfield, Hal Cruttenden, Pippa Evans and Mike McShane. It’s 2020 and the Brexit negotiations are on-going. Bentinck plays Adam Masters, […]
REVIEW: Once Seen on Blue Peter (Assembly Rooms) ★★★
Blue Peter is 60 years old this year. This show, devised by past presenter, Tim Vincent, is a celebration of the famous TV show for children that brings together familiar faces of past presenters including Vincent, Peter Purves, Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan and Mark Curry. The stage is set in a Green Room where the […]
REVIEW: Love Lab (Tristan Bates Theatre) ★★★★
Love Lab is a short play written by Sam Coulson at Tristan Bates Theatre as part of Camden Fringe 2018. The one act play explores our obsession with our screens and comments on how social media and reality TV is affecting our pursuit for true love, asking, “in a society of screen dwellers, can we […]
REVIEW: Little Shop Of Horrors (Open Air Theatre) ★★★★★
Based on Roger Corman’s 1960 dark comedy film starring a young Jack Nicholson, Little Shop Of Horrors premiered Off-Broadway in 1982. The musical was the brainchild of writing team Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the team who went on to write the music and lyrics for Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast and […]
REVIEW: Le Gateau Chocolat: Icons(Assembly George Square) ★★★★
Le Gateau Chocolat brings his show celebrating the music of his icons to the Piccolo Tent in George Square. His chatty style suits the space well, surrounded by the audience on three sides with two aisles for walking among the crowd. Gateau’s voice is the star of this show, from eighties ballads with a fan […]
REVIEW: ARISTOCRATS (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★
Ballybeg Hall is a manor which sits atop a hill looking out at the isolated Donegal village of Ballybeg. Despite its grandioseness, the property is rotting from the inside out and in typical Friel fashion, is not the only thing decaying as we zoom in on the lives of the O’Donnells. American professor, Tom Hoffnung […]
REVIEW: Around The World in 80 Days (Union Theatre) ★★★
Jules Verne’s classic Around The World In 80 Days bursts to life at The Union Theatre in Phil Willmott and Annemarie Lewis-Thomas’ musical adaptation. After enjoying a very successful run at the Battersea Arts Centre in 2001, this witty musical is back to entertain, delight and wonder. Freely adapted from the much-loved adventure novel, Around […]
REVIEW: Vicki and Pat in Fuerteventura (Theatre 503) ★★★★
We’ve all been there: the all-inclusive week-long getaway to somewhere in Europe, filling our days with poolside politics, being pressured into dreadful activities from the entertainment team and stuffing ourselves stupid at the buffet three times per day. The British dream, right? This is the case for Vicki and Pat, two women who find themselves […]
REVIEW: STUPID CUPID (Underbelly Clover) ★★★★
In July, West End Wilma interviewed Liz McMullen about her Edinburgh show Stupid Cupid, and I took it upon myself to check the show out. One woman shows are never in shortage at the fringe festival, in 2017, the converging theme was alcohol. This year the theme is anything goes, from the One-Woman Sex & […]