2+ week, 6+ day ago   (164+ words) The Captain sees Adam Riches at the helm of another excellent, confidently unadorned sports comedy-drama The anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall, formerly a veterinary college, makes the perfect setting for a play about Victorian men’s ambition, hubris and faith in…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (255+ words) festmag.com Review: John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills John Kearns may be at a crossroads in his life, but on stage he’s exactly where he ought to be It’s an assured hour from John Kearns, whose unique brand of character-comedy-but-not-really…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (85+ words) Sohrab Hagverdi explores complicated politics and the performativity of autobiography with live art chaos And he proves the point: he takes on a caricature of the Persian mystic, using Rumi to justify insulting the audience and making comments about women’s…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (219+ words) ’70s pornographer and erotic novelist Roger Prick (Han Whyte) interviews Typewronger’s Tee Hodges about their newly opened Bruntsfield premises I am unable to answer that question without putting us at risk from prosecution under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act. One thinks first…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (172+ words) Beckettian Aussie Absurdism from Sons of Susan Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford have created some wonderful, monstrous women in Shayna and Beverley, the stars of BIRDS. After a chance meeting in a beach-themed void, the pair chuckle and chain-smoke their…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (177+ words) Fringe fairytale debut from Charity Shop Sue shows great promise but offers little levity for the audience Told via a cast of underwritten madcap characters, including club owner Barbara (with bird cage hair and an unplaceable accent), blow-up sex doll…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (199+ words) Meanwhile, in Scotland, O’Rourke had invited his longtime collaborator, the Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul, to join the project. After a three-day workshop in Tokyo, followed by a work-in-progress performance, where the Scottish smallpipes were played on the Noh stage…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) Children’s performer Mama G schools us on the power of pantomime and libraries If you like pantomime and you like libraries then, hello, I’m the middle of your Venn diagram! I think they’re two of the most culturally important things…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) Review: Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That’s Always Screaming festmag.com Review: Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That’s Always Screaming Jordan Brookes is a juggernaut spectacle of disturbing fascination It is a cliché to say that those with…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (209+ words) Sam Eley’s chaotic alter-ego, 64-year-old oddball Basil Crumbwick, takes us through a day in his perfectly ordinary life 9:05am – Eat large lasagna. 9:10am – I read the newspaper. Front page headline is that the bloke who trained dogs to smell Alzheimer’s has now…...