The Glass Menagerie.

It’s amazing the difference between studying a piece of theatre and watching it being performed. I understand why people hate theatre when they’ve studied it at school. I disliked The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ever since I studied. I found it boring and pointless, and I hated the characters. I completely disregarded seeing it, …

XX – Ed Fringe

XX is an interesting production, where the cast and crew use an algorithm to randomise a show each night, creating a story about love, and loss and everything in between, each night. This was a genius idea, and I applaud the writer and director and everyone involved. I won’t talk about the plot, because that …

Foxtrot- Ed Fringe

I saw Foxtrot today at Paradise in the Vaults. This venue was actually one of the first places where I saw an actual piece of Theatre that wasn’t commercial or mainstream. About 5 years ago, I saw Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde there, and it was really lovely to return to that space, after all …

Techies: The Musical – Ed Fringe

Not to worry, much shorter review this time. Techies: The Musical, is a play about the underdogs of Theatre, the people no-one applauses. The Techies, the lighting, sound, stage managers etc. The ‘Dark Knights’ of Theatre. ‘ The heroes Theatre need, but not the ones they deserve.’ I went to see this because as someone …

RENT – Post It Theatre Company

RENT, the musical, written by Jonathan Larson, is about the homeless, artistic community in New York, looking heavily at the LGBTQ+ community. When it was written, AIDS was a severe issue in the LGBTQ+ community, when treatment wasn’t given to ‘queers’. Jonathan Larson died on the morning of the first preview on Off-Broadway, where they …

The Master & Magarita

So this evening I went to see The Master & Margarita at The Edinburgh Fringe. The Master & Margarita is a Russian novel designed as a satire to reflect the Russian bourgeois. It’s an interesting story which looks at two worlds. One set in Russia at the turn of the great war, and the other …