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: 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...

Edinburgh Round Up: All That Is Wrong; Mess; NOLA; Coalition

Written for the New Statesman In Edinburgh, the how can sometimes overshadow the what. Fringe audiences are won over by artistry, more than ...

Review: Blink, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List For 40 minutes, Blink tingles. Jonah and Sophie’s peculiar relationship tickles like a feather on a foot or champagne ...

Review: Bullet Catch, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for The List ‘Magic’s riskiest stunt’ entails catching a speeding bullet between the teeth. In William Henderson’s case, it carried ...

Review: Mission Drift, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars To create a little chunk of Vegas in the middle of a drizzling, miserable Edinburgh is something of a miracle. Yet ...

Review: Man of Valour, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars Demonstrating the art of the deceptive blurb, Man of Valour ’s entry in the Fringe Programme neglects to mention th...

Review: A Slow Air, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars David Harrower’s two-hander is an intricate portrait of neglect and decay, in which untended cracks become unbridge...

Review: Teenage Riot, Traverse Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Teenage Riot is a magic eye. / It’s a two-tone tie. / It’s a line-drawn bunny that seems like a duck. / It’s a rot...

Review: En Route, Traverse Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Edinburgh, for me, is covered in numbers. Those of us that migrate here annually know the city as it appears on the...