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Self-Raising
★★★★ This heartfelt piece tells Jenny's story of growing up deaf in a family with a dark secret. She shares her struggle to conform to an inaccessible society, starting by…
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The Grandmothers Grimm
★★★★ Some Kind of Theatre's evergreen production is an inventive four-hander which explores women's roles in the creation of the Brothers Grimm's famous book of fairy tales. Located in the…
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Deaf Action Presents: Red Aphrodite by Amy Murray
★★★ Red Aphrodite is a 45 minute stand up set in BSL (interpreted to English) in which Murray hopes to break down all the taboos about womanhood. Murray has great presence…
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Square Peg
★★★★★ The joy, art, and pain which thread through this self-told story are interwoven as seamlessly as the textiles that Simeon, the narrator, sews and works with throughout. They are…
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Choo Choo! (Or… Have You Ever Thought About ****** **** *****? (Cos I Have))
★★★★★ The title of Choo Choo! is followed by several starred out words, the meaning of which become apparent in the show's clever conclusion. But before we got there, we…
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Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps
★★★★ Simmonds has made a Fringe comeback. Although, this time, he has taken up a new challenge - to perform standing up for a full hour, in contrast to his…
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Elf and Duffy: Heist
★★★★ Elf and Duffy: Heist is a fun, fast-paced frenzy of mime, BSL, and plenty of sound effects. The blurb for the show states that "Duffy and Elf are friends.…
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Fat, Femme and Crippled
★★★ Alex Gibbon’s laugh-out-loud ride ‘on the intersection between disability and queer culture’ is as authentic and as it is filthy. Gibbon’s humour is bitchy, flirty, and never leaves a…
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Elizabeth McGeown: Cockroach
★★★ McGeown finds herself in a beautiful intimate room, a wood-panelled bunker with soft red-lighting reminiscent of Twin Peaks. An apt reference as the following hour of poetry weaves many…