17+ hour, 33+ min ago  (479+ words) The production's charm and invention are evident before the house lights even properly dim. In a pleasantly eccentric stroke, Philip Rahm's Butler, Bentley takes the stage alone, recalling (at least to me) the inquisitive dance of Pixar's iconic lamp. He eventually…...

23+ hour, 39+ min ago  (269+ words) Yes, it's very silly, but when the entire EMT ensemble blasts onto the stage to the strains of Kenny Loggins' "Footloose', they bring a compelling, celebratory energy which doesn't let up. Robbie Noble also puts in a solid shift as…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (414+ words) I wanted to write about my confusion navigating unexplained hormonal changes and the systematic negligence I experienced in the health system. So naturally, what began as a satire of medical misogyny has now grown into a dark comedy centred around…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (979+ words) A " Connie never lived in the trailer, Babs did; and B " we burned it down " on film!!!" she clarifies, dismantling the persistent mythology surrounding 1972s Pink Flamingos. The other big misconception is that we were doing drugs and partying on the…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1462+ words) For an art form entirely dependent on the physical form, professional dance has a terrible habit of making its practitioners hate the skin they live in. The traditional dance sector's fixation on a very narrow aesthetic is not news, but…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (429+ words) Consumed'opens to a domestic scene that feels achingly familiar; the small thrust stage shows a typical kitchen scene, with potatoes on the stove and washing-up in the sink. The audience in this intimate 200-seat space at Park theatre are invited…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (266+ words) Such blurring of the real and unreal is one of the integral features of the show, the resulting fictional world occupying the same neighbourhood as Apple TV's superlative Severance." The spine of the interaction is the enumerated menu, offering such…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (339+ words) That pacing is helped massively by the lighter classroom dynamics. You quickly forget the adult frames of the cast, swept up instead by Klo" Dean's sharp movement direction and the ensemble's slick multi-roling. At the centre of this ambitious plot…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (309+ words) At the centre are brittle marriages, unrequited desires and a simmering disgust with a society they both benefit from and despise. Everyone wants something, no one does anything, and the tension lies in whether self-awareness might finally tip into action....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (294+ words) Mid-afternoon on Mothering Sunday at Edinburgh's Usher Hall. Would all the mums be feasting with their families elsewhere, or would two pieces of sacred music on a Christian festival pull them in? The venue wasn't packed to the rafters, but…...