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Writer: Morag Fullarton Director: Morag Fullarton Reviewer: Georgina Newman The Public Reviews Rating: It’s a mean feat to recreate the tones of the 1942 Hollywood classic, Casablanca, within the confines of Islington’s Pleasance Theatre, but Gilded Balloon has achieved a marked evocation of the celebrated film. Written and directed by Morag Fullarton, Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut is [...]

Writer: Mark Trevorrow Reviewer: Stephanie Walls The Public Reviews Rating: Bob Downe’s latest show ‘Smokin’’ is a fabulous, funny piece of frothy light entertainment. A show such as this is so welcomed because the audience are under no obligation to over-think or over-analyse the show they are watching. We are quite simply able to sit and enjoy an [...]

Writer/Performer: Kev F. Sutherland Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: Formed in 2005 as part of The Sitcom Trials in London, Aberdeen-born Kev F. Sutherland’s Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre has been touring and entertaining ever since, winning the Edinburgh Festival Insider Comedy Award in 2009. This year’s offering, Boo Lingerie, is ostensibly a recreation of horror [...]

Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: The jolly good chaps (and gels) of The Fitzrovia Radio Hour return with their take on live radio drama from the golden days of the 1930s and 1940s. Five actors, immaculately dressed in formal evening wear, perform terribly proper (for the time) and hilariously un-PC tales of derring do and adventure. [...]

Writer: Philip Meeks Director: Stella Duffy Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: To any aficionado of Agatha Christie, the casting of Margaret Rutherford as the big screen Miss Marple seems, in hindsight, a rather bizarre decision. Apparently, Christie herself was unsure as to what sort of job Rutherford might make and visited the set to keep an [...]

Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: Ex-advertising executive and psychology graduate Doug Segal has been described as “Derren Brown, but funny”. This isn’t a bad comparison at all. He freely admits to using suggestion, reading of minutiae, statistics, showmanship, lying and cheating – but not magic – to achieve his effects. Nevertheless, most of his act is [...]

While the eyes of the sporting world focus on London, theatrical attention is focused on Edinburgh. With the fringe festival offering a bewildering choice of shows, it’s easy to get lost in the choice. Here Glen Pearce picks just five of the hundreds of shows on offer worth a visit for those dashing around the [...]

Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Bob Downe has made a welcome return to the fringe after an absence of four years, and exploding onto the stage in a blue tracksuit it really is hard not to draw comparisons to Sue Sylvester from Glee, the only difference is his golden glow tan and his exuberantly camp persona [...]