Lucy Porter: Pass It On (rating 4/5) Lucy Porter is a comedian who knows her audience. Now officially a fringe veteran, she continues to draw large crowds and keeps her audience fully emerged in her reflections on day to day domesticity, the changes that middle age brings and how it will seem like a golden […]
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McAllister blends pathos and humour to good effect
The Bench (rating 4/5) When is a bench not a bench? The answer, according to one of the characters in this play, is when it’s a memorial to his wife Maggie. For the other, it remains a bench where he can sit and collects his thoughts. From this simple premise, a more nuanced story unfolds, but […]
Fine start but musical loses its killer touch
Buried: A New Musical (rating 3/5) Promising to be ‘darkly comic’ Buried starts off well with a memorable, nicely sung number in which a female serial killer, Rose, goes through a series of first dates that all end in murder. She then meets Harry and the two realise their similarities when they attempt to kill […]
Razor sharp drama out of a political crisis
Brexit (rating 5/5) The gap between satire and reality can be dangerously close at times and watching Brexit it is easy to start feeling as if you are sitting in on high level Cabinet discussions with only the names changed to protect the guilty. It is set in a near future where the Ma(y)tron has […]
Creepy tale from the woods is an admirable effort
The Devil You Know: A Horror Play (rating 3/5) Found footage horror has oversaturated the genre in the past decade or so (starting way back in 1980 with Cannibal Holocaust and then popularised by the Blair Witch Project in 1999, leading to more recent and tired productions like the Paranormal Activity franchise) but it it […]