The Tron Theatre Company Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G15HB – until April 7th (3 / 5) Tensions are running high with the threat of redundancies at Katies boyfriend’s place of work. As she walks home with him, an incident of violence brings racial prejudices to light, and provides...

Citizen’s Theatre until Mar 31sth (3 / 5) What does it take to be a parent? Do you have to be a Superhero? What happens when your marriage falls apart? Do you have to be Captain Amazing? Mark does. But when Mark conjures up a fantasy world, is it so that he can live up to the pressures...

Blue Coat Productions Augustine’s until Aug 26th (4 / 5) Let’s adapt it into a musical! Groooooaaaaaaaan! But Brecht?…. BRECHT!!!??? Please don’t… please don’t… oh god you’ve done it… and… Wow… That’s pretty good...

Tess Said So St Vincent’s (Venue 197) until Aug 22th (2 / 5) Nosferatu is F.W. Murnau’s glorious piece of cinema and horror history – the likes of which, creatives would jump at the chance to bring to life with their own flare in a live re-imagining; especially in such a...

Bubble Laboratory C Chambers Street until Aug 28th (4 / 5) Fun, filthy and frothing at the bit – The Bubble Show for Adults is kinky cabaret at it’s finest! – taking a hilarious look at sex and relationships through the medium of bubbles and burlesque. Iulia Benze and Kurt...

Laurence Owen and Lindsay Sharman Voodoo Rooms until Aug 27th (5 / 5) HG Wells The Time Machine was not, alas, turned into a radio play in the 1950s, but if it was it could hardly best Laurence Owen’s attempt at recreating it as such. Not only is Owen a formidable voice actor who takes...

Campfire Stories Theatre Company Until 26th August 2007 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn (Venue 260) ​ (3 / 5) A dating agency for dictators may sound far fetched, but even Boris Yeltsin the first president of The Russian Federation is signing up in hope of securing a date. Unfortunately he...

Puppet State Theatre Company 20th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 28th August Storytelling Centre (3 / 5) Richard Medrington (of Puppet State Theatre Company) talks the audience through the history of his family heirlooms on the stage then plods with us through a heartwarming and gentle rendition of...

Red Bastard 19th – 27th August Pleasance Courtyard (4 / 5) What’s frightening truthful, seductively clever and red all over? Red Bastard is back with a new show that needs to be experienced to be believed. This time it’s all about the lies we tell each other in love, no...

Streetlights, People! Productions C Royale, George Street, Edinburgh until ​ August 28th (4 / 5) Life in New York can be stressful at the best of time, but when you’re quick to temper, lacking in direction, clinging on to the past for dear life, or codependent on a partner who is not as...

Arcola Theatre C, Chambers Street, Edinburgh until ​ August 28th (3 / 5) It begins very promisingly with electro-infused pop which segues into the famous overture from Mozart’s le nozze di figaro… people crawl forward to the edge of their seats. However, this ambitious fusion of...

Chris Davis Sweet Grassmarket, Aug 8 – 27 (3 / 5) Chris Davis returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with another solo show, this time a radical condensation of the film classic Apocalypse Now. Throughout the hour he plays the various characters that drive the plot forward, re-enacting famous scenes...

Lucy McConnell Paradise in the Vault, Aug 16 – 19 (2 / 5) 26.2 miles is the distance Lucy McConnell thought she would never be able to complete in a single run. The show 26.2 is based on her personal experience of how she made it happen anyway. The story is simple and honest, with sacrifices...

Stellar Quines Underbelly Cowgate, Aug 14 – 26 (3 / 5) The Last Queen of Scotland is not a regular autobiographical recount of playwright Jaimini Jethwa’s experience of being expelled from Uganda by Idi-Amin and her upbringing in Dundee. Directed by Jemima Levick, it is told by a woman...