HESS is a seriously impressive piece of solo acting coupled with an excellent psychological script that explores the complexities of the German Nazi leader Rudolf Hess, friend and confidante of Adolf Hitler. The piece is deep and engaging throughout. We meet HESS in his final years, he is an old man, in pain from a stomach ulcer and well into his forty years plus prison sentence of isolation. These days he focuses on his newspapers and feeding the birds, drawing parallels w

Tongue Twister is a really clever concept for a show. Nostalgic over a ‘she sells sea shells’ early memory with his grandfather and then hit with the realisation that his peers could speak more languages than him, our performer set out to learn a little bit of every language there is – beginning with tongue twisters. A lot of thought and effort has gone into this show, the set is vibrant with multimedia, the costumes are creatively colourful and clever, the physical theatre

Water Colour paints in glorious technicolour the reality and breadth of the mental health struggles that young people face today. At two opposite ends of the opportunity scale, a female student artist and a would be talented chef, kept in his place for his dishwashing skills, are having to fight demons within. For one of our characters, the struggle is deep rooted in her past. For the other, a trauma invades his headspace and the two stories become linked by chance. It is a

For Dolores is very much a deep dive into the fragility and ferocity of human nature. Focussing entirely on the dynamics and relationship between our two main characters Mo and Réaltín, the story unravels their flaws and strengths, defensiveness and power as they fight to make sense of everything that life has thrown at them. Including Dolores. A seriously unfortunate life event brings them here. It brings them closer but also threatens to tear them apart. The characters ar

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Tom at the Farm by Pleasance and Cena Brasil Internacional is based on the original French play by Michel...

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Thanks For Being Here by Ontroerend Goed aims to dissolve the boundary between audience and cast. It could...

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine ‘Out there, worlds are ending but stories go on.’ We enter the world of Rose, the AI chatbot who gives...

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Red Like Fruit is brave enough to deal with some uncomfortable truths through an unconventional delivery....

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Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Kanpur : 1857 is an immensely powerful piece that centres around the reality of British colonialism and a...

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Award winning theatre maker Victoria Melody has a habit of immersing herself into the world of hobbyists and...

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Dazed and Confused is part of the Taiwan Season by Lu Productions. It is a one person show in an intimate...

Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Sometimes a show is so entrancing you don’t notice the time go past. Diana Salles achieves this with her...

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THE LITTLE PRINCE (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine) The Little Prince is quite honestly adorable! If you have forgotten how to stare at the...

UP! (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine) Up! Is a tale of opposites. Of good luck and bad luck. Love and loss. Fate and chance. It is a...

LOST LEAR (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine) The most brilliant creative twist on a Shakespearian classic with common themes of memory,...

STANDING IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine) For ten weeks Lucie Barât had twin baby brothers. The older of the two,...

The Ad breaks. She was fascinated from an early age. The combo of art and psychology with a call to action in such a short time period...