Smirnoff Underbelly, Edinburgh Snatching music-based comedy from the mealy mouth of parody, Rob Deering takes out his axe and lets it riff with blaze of classic rock...
August 25, 26 (Riverside Studios, London), October 17 (Leeds College of Music) The Tete a Tete Opera Festival, 18 days of new music drama for modest resources, is the brainchild of director Bill Bankes-Jones...
Assembly at Universal Arts, Edinburgh Cracking the whip for S&M, John Keates has created a piece of theatre that succeeds in both getting under the skin of consensual sexual cruelty and revealing its nature to its audience...
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh The Pitch is a comic and performing tour de force in which Peter Houghton plays a whole cast of characters in a dramatized film pitch to a group of media executives...
Stand Comedy Club Nick Wilty is a Falklands veteran, and this forms the theme of a thought-provoking stand up show...
Assembly Hill Street, Edinburgh Banned in Zimbabwe, where it is set, this play deals with the grassroots insurrection of the people against a vicious, megalomaniac dictator...
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh If there is one thing everyone remembers about the myth of Orpheus it is the fact that, on the way out of Hades, he looked back to check if his beloved Eurydice was following and therefore lost her forever, having broken the terms of her release...
King’s, Edinburgh The women in this adaptation of The Doll’s House are all normal-sized or taller, the men all under four feet tall, and the set built to their proportions so that the women must stoop or crawl to get through a door...
Edinburgh Playhouse Trisha Brown’s dancers are agile, lithe and sinuous, her choreography is sometimes beautiful and arresting, but there’s little that’s innovative or radical in this triple bill...
Pleasance, Edinburgh A mark of a good comedian is him or her saying something so bloody obvious that it is a wonder no-one else has...
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Oooh that Liam Mullone is naughty...
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Forget all that confrontational nonsense about Stephen K Amos’s ability to dominate a room, in More of Me he does not so much work through his issues as embrace them...
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Constructed around snatches of Eastern European folk musics, Vanessa Haska’s latest piece for Scottish Dance Theatre is an exploration of the effect of war on civilian populations...
Underbelly, Edinburgh Making much play of his ability to “go off on one” in front of his kids, particularly when shopping for kids shoes in Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Ian Stone perpetuates the myth of his deeply angry personality...
Holyrood Too @ Faith, Cowgate, Edinburgh There is a precision to the observational comedy perpetrated by the German duo of self-styled Comedy Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Henning Wehn, and TV entertainer, Otto Kuhnle...
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