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Dazzling
★★★★ Holly Sewell's Dazzling is an honest, raw look at spiralling mental health and the resulting patterns of self-destructive behaviour. When I saw it, the company’s understudy, Alix Addinall, delivered the…
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Neurodiverse Review Awards – The Longlist
Here are the Longlists for each category for the 2023 Neurodiverse Review Awards. With over 200 shows eligible, it can be very hard to make a decision. We hope this…
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Beehavioural Problems: Something Something Autism
★★★★ Appearing with a giant fluffy dog-head on and offering the audience chocolate bars if they are ‘good’, is how Sheffield-born comedian and former Lab Technician Stephen Catling chooses to…
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Robin Ince – MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand-Up Comedy
★★★★ There is a feeling of alienation as you walk into this show. Ince is crouched over a Melon, slowly carving it, in what feels like a horrible parody of…
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Paul Sinha: Pauly Bengali
★★★★ The great thing about Paul Sinha, is his knowing subversion of his television personality. The affable quizzer and self-described ‘boring Celebrity Goggleboxer’, manages to deconstruct the strange cascade of…
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Walking on Spectrum
★★★★ An hour in Juliana Heng’s company is something to behold. At once, it is incredibly intimate, yet there is a feeling of unpredictability, they are totally themselves. They cut…
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Robin Ince – Weapons of Empathy
★★★★★ Before the show even starts, Ince is buzzing about the stage in an excitable frenzy. Handing out cards with the request to ‘write down any books that made you…
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Things To Do In Mull
★★★ Agree to Disagree’s new play concerns Janusz, a PhD student trying to write about 17th Century Polish history, whilst social media, his mum and an unfolding crush constantly distract…
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Rosie Jones: Triple Threat
★★★★★ When someone from our community excels, it can mean you have to be everything to everyone. It’s a sign of Jones' commitment to the craft of stand-up comedy, that…
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Darwin In Edinburgh
★★★★★ If you want to see strong, powerful acting in the fresh air, this show is for you. If you want to learn about the mind-expanding influence of Edinburgh on…