★★★★    Many notebooks in hand, Mimi Hayes is trying to reconnect with her 20-something self to figure out what made her tick. This journey of past self-discovery is not…

★★★★  Resident Island Dance’s latest collaboration explores disability, connection and our post-pandemic world. Taiwanese Visually impaired choreographer Chang Chung-An and French disabled choreographer Maylis Arrabit worked on the piece online…

★★★ Richard Stamp’s autobiographical one-man show is about receiving a cancer diagnosis. Beyond the terror and grief that accompanies a Doctor giving you such news, it’s further compounded by the…

★★★★  Engineering your show around your audiences reaction to it is a very risky move. A risk that Eryn Tett takes without hesitation, as her daily hour of surreal one-liners…

★ We are thoroughly fed up by the presentation of autistic narratives from the point of view of put-upon parents. It’s a trope as crass as it is offensive. By…

★ ★ ★ ★ Well-known in her native Belfast and fresh from recording a BBC pilot, Alice McCullough makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut with an hour of lyrical performance poetry.…

★ ★ ★  Kvartetto is Finnish for Quartet. Although I felt this radical dance piece from Kati Raatikainen should’ve been called Kolmikätinen as only three dancers worked on the stage.…

★ ★ ★ ★  Abby Howells’ storytelling is as unique and funny as she is. Beginning with an immediate detour into the details of a Medieval painting, (namely one where…

★ ★ ★ ★  Melissa Stephen’s tales of a Southern American upbringing are not for the faint of heart. Being an undiagnosed autistic girl growing up amongst neglectful parents, a…

 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  Laura Crow’s original play is a deaf elegy for the hearing world, a clever self-validating work, where the deaf lead character (and theatre-maker) dissects and…