1+ week, 5+ day ago   (411+ words) Mind Full The Wee Review Inventive, candid theatre gives thoughts a vivid dramatic form Playwright Lewis Teckkam has cerebral palsy, and – as he tells us – “needs other people’s help to do everything except think”. In this intriguing and inventive show,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (110+ words) Scruffy comic poet shoots for the stars Like Bowie’s Major Tom, Auton’s rise to success has left him feeling isolated from himself and the world that once inspired him. The show ends with Auton’s character returning to Earth, bestowed with…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (88+ words) The song and dance numbers have the feel of a big musical even in the tiny (and appropriate for the Soviet Union) confines of an ex-anatomy lecture hall. Wanting more of a show is never a bad thing, and this…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (219+ words) Mad animal facts as metaphors for gay identity shouldn’t work, but absolutely does ‘DUCK’ gives us a whistle stop tour of Morrison’s life, roughly divided into chapters named after a particular animal, whose unique feature Morrison ties into an aspect…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (333+ words) Bold and inventive dance sketches that perhaps overstay their welcome but certainly make an impression Following last year’s Women in Socks and Sandals, DON GNU bring us the male version. It’s part of the splendid #DANISH portfolio of productions that…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (103+ words) As fast and furious as any comedy show featuring poetry has any right to be Some will blanch at such invective hurled at people who are far from integral to the enshittification of absolutely everything. While it does occasionally feel…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (378+ words) HANG TIME The Wee Review Disquietingly-staged theatre that seethes with stark injustice Three Black men hang from a tree. The stage is dark and otherwise empty. It’s night. We hear distant crickets amidst the stretching silence. Gradually, the day dawns....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (560+ words) Trauma transmuted into sheer theatrical creativity in jaw-dropping hour Elf Lyons has been named as one the 50 funniest comedians (not comediennes; please note) of the 21st century and she’s only really getting going. That’s quite something given that there are about…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) ADEY The Wee Review Touching poetic thank-you note to a mother and a community In Tigrinya, one of the languages of Eritrea, “Adey” means “mum”. Bethlehem Wolday-Myers’ mum moved from Eritrea to London decades ago, leaving behind a country torn…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (296+ words) Compelling, articulate adaptation of two of Poe’s best-loved works Stephen Smith, who directs himself for Threedumb Theatre, in these two gothic horror stories is on a one-man mission to reintroduce the world to Edgar Alan Poe,whose gothic horror stories…...