Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 36

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: CANDY, ZOO TV
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 20, 2021

Do you believe in love at first sight? Will has a secret. He’s hopelessly in love with the unattainable Candy — she’s an epiphany, a revelation, and his best friend Billy in drag. Can he ever be with her? And what does loving her really mean? Candy is a new comedy about love, heart break, and ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: TRIPLE BYPASS, The Space Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 20, 2021

Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning debut as a writer takes audiences on an emotional journey ranging from fear and hate to delight and joy. Seeking Dignity is a suspenseful drama with a twist in its tail; Close To Black sees two young women who meet as strangers, but discover they have a lot in common...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: DARK SPIRITS, BLACK HUMOUR, Assembly Showcatcher
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 17, 2021

InHouse Theatre and Assembly invite you back to your favourite haunt for a strong drink and a stranger-than-fiction ghost story. One year after the shuttering of pubs and theatres around the world, a familiar bartender fixes you a classic cocktail, but darker spirits from the past threaten to intrud...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: KILL ME NOW, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 18, 2021

Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar. Her goal? To sell you the lucrative franchise model of her “end-of-life celebration” funeral business. But can the self-confessed grief guru successfully make it through her PowerPoint presentation – full of rainbow coffins, leopard print h...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: GOBBY, Pleasance Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 17, 2021

A biting and heartfelt one-woman odyssey about what it really means to be loud. Delving into social anxiety and emotional manipulation, Jodie Irvine's acclaimed debut is a darkly comic and relatable story of survival and a lesson in how to throw a really good party....

BWW Review: LOVE LETTERS AT HOME, Traverse Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 17, 2021

In Uninvited Guests’ signature performance style, Love Letters at Home shifts between theatre and feeling like a real social event. Songs and stories gathered from the audience are presented together as a shared declaration of love: toasts are made, speeches are given, dances are danced, for you and...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: MUSTARD, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 16, 2021

Triple Fringe First and Olivier-winning Fishamble, in association with Fringe First-winning Sunday’s Child, return to Summerhall with the 2019 hit show Mustard by Eva O’Connor. A darkly comic play about heartbreak, madness, and how condiments are the ultimate coping mechanism. When the man of her dr...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: LOST IN LOVE, Fringe Player
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 16, 2021

The story of Emily: brassy, funny and forthright. Her journey, navigating life and men, takes her and the audience through obstacles, detours and dead ends; all met with dry, dark wit – at least on the surface. The Emily we are allowed to see isn’t always the Emily inside, and her acerbic outlook hi...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: AFTERPARTY, The Space
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 16, 2021

'It’s not a crime to have fun.' A group of friends celebrates the end of school – and the start of their lives – with a wild night out. What could possibly go wrong? Award-winning playwright Rachel O’Regan asks what makes a bright future in this riotous new comedy. 'The world’s not made for us. But ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: BROMANCE, Assembly George Sq Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 16, 2021

International award-winning smash-hit Bromance is back! Five-star circus about camaraderie and affection. Audacious, touching, exhilarating tour de force of physical heroics where handshakes become handstands and backslaps become backflips. Among the UK's hottest circus companies, Barely Methodical ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: WILL MARS: MY LIFE'S A JOKE, Counting House
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 16, 2021

Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is a supercharged combination of old-school joke-telling and modern, autobiographical wit....

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: FEAR OF ROSES, Assembly Roxy
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 15, 2021

This fast-paced, darkly comedic crime story written and directed by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller follows three women, four eventful days and a nefarious plot straight out of the mid-century pulp. When ruthlessly ambitious bank manager Tabby is blackmailed by the mysterious Keely into robbing her own ban...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: CASH POINT MEET, Fringe Player
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 14, 2021

Emma and Sinéad know all that glitters isn't gold, but when given the opportunity to go from €3.99 wine to limos and Louboutins, maybe happiness is just a swipe away? Cash Point Meet follows two Irish women as they stumble into the world of sex work. What follows is a darkly comic exploration of lab...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: CHARLIE'S A CLEPTO, Assembly Showcatcher
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 17, 2021

Charlie is a kleptomaniac – the doctor told her. Reckons it stems from childhood trauma. But she has the robbin' completely under control these days. For real. She has a bit of a mouth on her, but she's only trying to be funny, not cause trouble, like. Not today, of all days. She loves that little b...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW REVIEW: I LOVE YOU MUM, I PROMISE I WON'T DIE, Fringe Player
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 13, 2021

'Sensational' is how one viewer described this high-quality filmed version of Mark Wheeller's moving play. Telling the true story of Dan, a popular 16-year-old schoolboy from South London, who took ecstasy at an illegal rave in January 2014 and tragically died two days later as a result of taking a ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: TWO FINGERS UP, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 12, 2021

Remember when your religion teacher taught you about ridin’? And the school nurse told you to shave your pits? Or here, discovering your clit the first time? Wait, you haven’t yet? You don’t wank? Women don’t? My hole they don’t. Stick two fingers up and come with us on a journey back to your teenag...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: COVID LOCKDOWN BREATH MACHINE, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 12, 2021

Designed specifically to be experienced with headphones, alone, with the lights off and the curtains drawn, Covid Lockdown Breath Machine is a fantastical, transformative and uplifting binaural adventure into the symptoms and imaginings of a coronavirus patient. A woman on the edge of collapse battl...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: DISHONOUR, Fringe Player
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 11, 2021

Dishonour is a powerful drama that explores the terrifying practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Mimi, who plays all six characters, immerses viewers in the difficult truths of the FGM culture....

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: MISS HONEY, Assembly Showcatcher
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 11, 2021

A new online one-woman show digitally broadcast from East London's leading drag club, The Glory. A hilarious and provocative dive into privilege and sexuality, we follow the story of a private tutor juggling teaching the UK's elite with high-kicking disco balls on a school night....

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: CHERYL MARTIN- ONE WOMAN, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2021

A hypnotic dreamscape. Through binaural sound audiences are drawn into the mind of a woman who grew up with severe depression and BPD, as she tries to find the answer to who she was, how she came to be that person, who she might have been and who she is now. The audience is taken right to the heart ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: MY CAR PLAYS TAPES, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2021

My Car Plays Tapes is the new storytelling show by John Osborne, about getting older, jobs, cars that don’t really work and how to make big decisions with your life....

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: TOM MAYHEW: FROM RAGS TO SLIGHTLY NEWER RAGS, Laughing Horse Free Festival Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2021

Tom Mayhew is a professional comedian. Well, he was. Over the last 18 months, he has sold out West End venues and signed on; he then stopped signing on to perform his own Radio 4 stand-up series. It's been both the most and least successful period of his career....

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: MY LEFT NUT, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2021

400 milliliters. That's how much liquid was drained from Michael's left testicle when he was a teenager. That's more than a can of coke. He should have told someone sooner, but who could he turn to? His dad died ten years ago, and besides, school is full of rumours about what the giant bulge in his ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: PLANET OF THE GRAPES, ZOO TV
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 12, 2021

The Victorian era’s toy theater movement collides with digital theater in this critically acclaimed, epic, table-top, sci-fi adventure. An astronaut crew crash lands on an unfamiliar planet in the distant future and are enslaved by a society where grapes have evolved into speaking creatures with hum...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: AFLOAT, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2021

The climate apocalypse has hit. Dublin's completely underwater. Best friends Bláthnaid and Debs are the sole survivors, living on the top floor of Liberty Hall. With only seagulls for company, they spend their days sheltering from the storms and reminiscing over the last days of Dublin. Debs looks t...