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Cathy
★★★★★ Eilidh Loan’s follow up to Moorcroft, is a family drama about grief and a formidable matriarch. The eponymous Cathy, played to perfection by Elaine C. Smith is crushed by…
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The Singer
★★★★★ It’s great to see Jamie Rea, a figure central to Scotland’s deaf creative scene for years, finally taking centre stage in The Singer. Opening with the divine Hannah Jarrett-Scott…
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The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer
★★★★ Chiara Fumanti and Andrea Guerini’s darkly comic theatre piece asks us if we ‘ever wondered what the person next to us is thinking?’ A dangerous question to ask at…
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Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes
★★★★ When disabled comedy acts are promoted, the media will often lead with the disability, not the comedy. Aidan Greene explains that when he’s interviewed, he’s a ‘human interest story’…
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NON HUMAN ANIMAL
★★★★ Every now and again, a character comes onto the stage that you’re immediately enraptured by. Róisín is fast-talking, honest and funny with a vulnerability that shimmers. That she lets…
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That’s Ace
★★★ Jonny Brace’s new play is a gift for actor Tiffany Marina Pearmund. The character of Ace is so fully formed, she’s real. Navigating a night-club as if it were…
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DADDY ISSUES
★★★ Spencer Waldner’s solo play promises much. It’s a confessional, an expose of man who became unable to conceal any truth after contracting COVID-19. Spencer addresses us in the opening…
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Endometriosis: The Musical
★★★★★ On paper, a musical about Endometriosis shouldn’t work. It’s a serious medical condition that affects 1 in 7 women worldwide, yet for something so crippling, it takes on average…