Review: Sporadical, Forest Fringe

written for Culture Wars Having scooped themselves a Fringe First and a Total Theatre Award last year with the manic and moving Crocosmia ,...

Review: Crush, Underbelly

Written for Culture Wars Not so long ago Second Life was just that: a layer of fiction, leisurely escapism. Now, according to Paul Charlton,...

Review: Land Without Words, Just the Tonic @ The Caves

Written for Culture Wars “The pain has got to be there; I’m not interested in provocation.” Well, that pain certainly makes its presence kno...

Slow-burning Stars

Just thought I'd flag up this little blog for The Stage about the sort of shows that fly under the radar within the fast-paced culture ...

Review: Trilogy, The Arches @ St Stephens

Written for Culture Wars At its very pinnacle, art has the ability to make criticism redundant. Trilogy does just that. It is so important, ...

Review: Internal, Mecure Point Hotel

Written for Culture Wars Internal is carnivorous. It preys upon its audience, feasting on our individual characters before spitting us out i...

Review: Oh, My Green Soap Box, Pleasance Courtyard

Written for Culture Wars “It’s going to be the biggest campaign ever”, enthuses Lucy Foster, a self-proclaimed revolutionary. It’s going to ...

Review: Anomie, Zoo Southside

Written for Culture Wars How Precarious , of all people, can bemoan our addiction to all things mediatised is utterly beyond me. In Anomie ,...

Review: Orphans, Traverse Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Helen and Danny have just sat down to a celebratory dinner and in walks Liam, his T-shirt sodden with blood, his ey...

Review: Zemblanity, Bedlam Theatre

Written for Culture Wars At last year's festival, Le Navet Bete picked up a Total Theatre nomination for Serendipity. Zemblanity, anothe...

Review: A Fistful of Snow, C Soco

Written for The Stage For eight long months, Oscar-winning screenwriter Chester James has been manning an emergency food reserve 1,000 miles...

Review: 6.0 - How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won, Pleasance Dome

Written for Culture Wars With summers hotting up and polar ice-caps melting down, Dancing Brick ask us to spare a thought for the world’s f...

Review: The Lamplighter's Lament, Bedlam Theatre

Written for Culture Wars A bearded Victorian figure in a top-hat, overcoat tails swishing behind him, strides along a road. From a pocket of...

Review: Barflies, Barony Bar

Written for Culture Wars Step into the oaky musk of the Barony Bar, where Grid Iron serve up their latest site-sympathetic offering, and you...

Review: Stand By Your Van, Pleasance Courtyard

Written for Culture Wars If you have even a single, solitary brain cell, its best to avoid Stand By Your Van at all costs. Inspired by Ameri...

Review: Hugh Hughes in...360, Pleasance Courtyard

Written for Culture Wars With their blend of whimsy and wide-eyed wonder, no one else could pull off Hugh Hughes’ performance lectures. Such...

Review: My Life with the Dogs, Pleasance Courtyard

Written for Culture Wars You expect wheezing accordions and battered suitcases of New International Encounter , not bass guitars and megapho...

Distrust Amidst Misrule

Standing out from a crowd of 2,098 is not easy. For the next month, however, it will become a necessity for each individual show under the u...

Welcome to Edinburgh

I'm not there yet. In fact, there's a whole eight hours of day job ahead of me. Not to mention the four hours of languidly paced tra...