Theatre Reviews & More

Breaks no ground but pleases the crowd: Air travel has experienced a comedic resurgence of late. 90's sitcom The High Life is returning as a musical next year, airport manager and reality star Jane Boulton has been enjoying her (second) fifteen minutes of fame, and a soundbite from a certain airline has dominated social media this summer. Fresh !nk Theatre’s two-hander comedy Cabin Fever sees performers Aurelia Harris-Johnstone and Beth Miles switch between several different

Romances with rugs, flings with futons, and crushes on coffee tables: Do you ever name items of furniture in your home? Personify them to make them feel like a part of the family? A favourite in my childhood home is a mini pink sofa called Dolores. Well, writer and performer Emily Weitzman takes that idea a little further with her show Furniture Boys. In her house, items of furniture are boys she’s loved, cared for, taken in and now can’t bear to throw away. This one-woman ab

Autobiographical dance comedy has its charms: When I hear a title like Chunky Jewellery, from Barrowland Ballet, my Gen Z mind races thinking about the kind of chunky jewellery I know. The likes of Tatty Divine, big plastic bananas and moustaches dangling from wrists and ears, and the millennial celebration of all things bright and tacky that was slowly phased out to make way for more conservative trends. Then I see an array of big-beaded necklaces, the kind you would find in

A jelly-filled musical treat. There’s a time and a place for a silly musical – in the afternoon at the Fringe. Light-hearted musicals are...

A sandal-clad power struggle Usually, a critic aims to be a fly on the wall, to blend into the crowd and let the performance unfold before

Dinosaur parody is a roaring good time It’s not often that a limited budget works in a show’s favour. Usually, if you are putting on a

Feathered fun with a crazy swan: You probably know that Swan Lake is a story that can be told in many different ways. Some versions have...

Soft furnishings and social commentary: How far would you go for some parquet flooring and a smeg fridge? In Philip Ridley’s dark comedy...

Murder mystery sequel is dead on arrival: Sequels are a rare thing in theatre, particularly outside of a bubble like London or the Fringe...

Frenzied performances and a slow death: Urgh another adaptation of an old film that does nothing with the source material…but what is this?