Tommy never appears, we don't see him alive, in flashback or even in a photograph. Yet by the end of…
Fifteen years after Willy Wonka opened the gates of his chocolate factory, health and safety has finally caught up with…
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland are rapidly becoming something approaching Fringe royalty. Arriving from New York on crowdfunding in 2022,…
Last year Recent Cutbacks gave me one of my picks of the Fringe. Fly, You Fools! was gloriously inventive, while Hold On To…
There are Fringe shows you admire, shows you enjoy, and occasionally shows that remind you why actors act and why…
A sold-out Paul Foot show at the Edinburgh Fringe is hardly a surprise. I managed to snag a very last-minute…
There are occasions at the Edinburgh Fringe when sitting in the front row feels like a privilege. There are others…
There are some stories so extraordinary that the difficulty in putting them on stage is not making them interesting but…
Two larger-than-life women. One very small lift. Sparks are inevitably going to fly. Eva O’Connor’s For Dolores throws Réaltín, a…
There is something very frustrating about a play centred on a painter that never quite convinces you that its protagonist…