Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List In detention with Mr Goodfellow, seven secondary-school pupils are forced – as if by magic – to perform A Midsummer Nig...

My Mess, Your Shit

According to a 2007 study, one in a hundred women in the UK suffers from a clinically diagnosed eating disorder. That’s the highest rate of ...

Review: Mies Julie, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List Truly great productions of classic texts can reveal the play within the play. Who knew that beneath the staid formality...

Review: Boris and Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List Nothing covers cracks like cuteness. Boris and Sergey are two faceless leather bunraku puppets that look like reconstit...

Review: And They Played Shang-a-Lang, The Stand, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List If a semi-autobiographical jukebox musical about salad days in Scotland sounds grim -- and it should -- Derek Douglas’ ...

Review: Nothing is Really Difficult, Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Theatergroep WAK know how to make an entrance. In a wooden box in George Square, a man pushes up a corner of the fl...

Review: How to Start a Riot, theSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List Mark Duggan’s death at the hands of the police sparked last summer’s riots: four days of violent disorder and looting a...

Review: Monkey Bars, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Written for Culture Wars Two park bench grumblers are moaning about the modern world. Today’s streets are so rife with crime, one says, that...

Review: Beats, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Technically speaking, Kieran Hurley’s Beats is illegal. In accordance with the Public Order Act’s ruling on raves,...

Review: Strong Arm, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars At 14, Roland Poland – Roly-Poly to his classmates – weighed 20 stone. Not these days he doesn’t. Not after a first...

Review: Chapel Street, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Insecurity rules, OK? Joe and Kirsty might look down their noses at a world full of “mingers” and dickheads, but be...

Review: Songs of Lear, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List Imagine King Lear in pill form, the Shakespearean equivalent of Willy Wonka’s Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum. Or con...

Review: Perle, Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List Perle shows a life on pause. A man sits in front of a television, feeding it one VHS tape after another. At first he s...

Review: Rainbow, Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List Playwright Emily Jenkins can’t resist a flourish. In Rainbow, three vaguely interlinked monologues, barely a noun goes ...

Review: My Elevator Days, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List What do we leave behind in an ever-changing world? The old man in front of us will never get the 19 million Google resu...

Review: Tea Is An Evening Meal, Northern Stage at St Stephens, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Sat around a sturdy wooden kitchen table, we’re served tea by Faye Draper, who’s playing mum, as it were. There are...

Review: Thin Ice, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List What sets Thin Ice apart is not so much its narrative – a disjointed love triangle between academics in the Arctic Cir...

Review: As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Daniel Kitson has done it again. What that might mean, I’ve only a second-hand inkling. Despite eight consecutive F...

Review: Morning, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Simon Stephens’ plays often leave me bruised. The bash me about in my seat, peeling back my abdominals and going to...

Review: Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice sets its audience a puzzle. It is a triptych of short, almost entirely distinct ...