In the wake of her wonderful show Ladybones at the Edinburgh Fringe, I sat down with writer and actor Sorcha McCaffrey. In the comfortably busy downstairs of Black Medicine cafe, we talked representation in theatre, OCD, and how to get your audience to join in.
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Sarah Kendall may be as close to a perfect comic as you could find. For those of you who have been following this site for a while, you will know my love for her 2016, and 2017 Fringe shows, both of which I gave five stars. You would think with that, no show could live up to my expectations, yet here she has managed to do it again.
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I have admired Rhys Nicholson from afar for a few years, and after being unable to get a ticket to his Fringe show last year, I was ecstatic to be able to see him this year. His incredible pace and stage presence, and a sense of humour I find incredibly refreshing, made all the waiting worth it.
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Arabella Weir, star of Scottish sitcom ‘Two Doors Down’, debuted her one-woman show ‘Does My Mum Loom Big in This?’ at Assembly George Square, Studio 2. The show follows her […]
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There are some acts that I watch where I spend as much time worrying about their vocal chords as I do enjoying their material. Michael Legge is one such act, who rarely seems to lower the decimal level below that of a furious shout, leaving you imagining his throat shredded like the angriest of metal band frontmen. Luckily, however, his material tends to be strong enough to overcome the worry.
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Shetland is somewhere I have never really thought too much about. Even having visited it as a teenager, I’m sad to say I can only really remember fields and a ceilidh involving men dressed as Vikings (which you would think would have piqued my interest more than it did). Having seen Marjolein Robertson’s Da Shetland Spree, I’m starting to wish I’d taken in my surroundings more.
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