(3/5 Stars) Being a BBC-obsessed weirdo can be a sad existence. Living in perpetual fear of a licence-fee-reduction, refusing to watch ITV out of spite, planning future holidays in the hotel…
(4/5 Stars) Maybe I am just being dismal, but walking around the Edinburgh Fringe alone can be depressing. It is possible to go ages without conversation, and when a chat does show up it is …
(4/5 Stars) Olivia Lee is enthralling in this coming-of-age play about growing up too late. Zoe Lewis's perceptive script explores the crisis of a 30-something woman called Lesley, by tel…
(3/5 Stars) TS Drama Theatre Company's performance of Irish playwright Nancy Harris's comedy about an aspiring Irish girl band is very auspicious. Journey To X is a polemic against cultivate…
(4/5 Stars) There is something clean-cut about Rachel Kauder Nalebuff's complex play about culture shock and national stereotyping. Everything is polished and concise. The four-piece cast ar…
(1/5 Stars) Although Illyria Arts has come up with a romantic comedy which is markedly different, it is too hollow and too strained to justify the experiment. I Heart IKEA was written by fin…
(1/5 Stars) I Heart IKEA is a two-piece comedy from Illyria Arts which bemoans the difficulty of being original by composing a romantic comedy entirely from rehashed quotes and clichés. Unf…
(1/5 Stars) This stab at revamping the Oresteia into an Oceans 11-style heist story about the fall of a La Vegas casino called Troy is hopelessly sloppy. Everything about it is just incongru…
(3/5 Stars) Gilded Balloon Tivot's adaptation of Mike Daisey's infamous manifesto against corporatism is an evangelical dramatic monologue which attempts to tackle our apathy towards the mea…
(3/5 Stars) The Assembly 1 Theatre was shamefully under-attended for The Waiting Room. Dyad Productions's enthralling drama refuses to take itself too seriously, despite its heavy subject ma…
(1/5 Stars) Bin Laden: The One Man Show will not be playing Broadway anytime soon, not least because Broadway is in New York, and a play from the perspective of the man who masterminded the …
(4/5 Stars) Beating McEnroe is a one-man performance based on Jamie Wood's deeply-rooted infatuation with Björn Borg. In case it wasn't screamingly obvious from this summary alone, it is an…
(4/5 stars) Fourth Monkey's production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest will certainly sell plenty of tickets on the fame of its title alone. Yet by the same token the adaptation, although…
(3/5 Stars) Trinity Fringe Productions has attempted perhaps one of the most ambitious original plays of the Fringe festival with Bluebeard. It proposes far more themes than it could possibl…
(4/5 Stars) Bright Lights is Léonie Kate Higgins's one-woman show; the anti-Fame story, told from the perspective of someone with dreams, but no tangible chance, of becoming famous. It begi…
(3/5 Stars) Advertised as a classic with a new twist, Spartan Ensemble's reimagining of Harold Pinter's one-act play focuses on the relationship between two professional killers, all the whi…