So. Downstairs at the Pleasance has been open for four weeks now, and the programming shows no signs of getting less outrageous. For hot on the heels of Bismillah! (the…
American performance duo Split Britches’ latest show Unexploded Ordnances is part theatre, part lecture and part discussion panel, but mostly a rather absurd and thought-provoking piece of art about ageing and…
Allegory seems to be all the rage at the moment and rooting around issues of tradition, identity and above all an attachment to the past, Nightfall is steeped in the…
WARNING: THIS SHOW CONTAINS STRONG MEN AND SCENES OF EXPLICIT FUN AND FARCE. YOU WILL GET WET! Opening with Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ is indicative of the madcap, freakish hilarity that…
Grotty explores the lesbian scene in London from Soho to Dalston. We follow Rigby (Izzy Teenyson) during what seems to be just a very long monologue. The entire play revolves…
Bookies favourite Worth A Flutter, brings together a stable of popular contenders to the starting gate: actor and reality TV star, Paul ‘Dangerous’ Danan, soap vet Adele Silva, glamourous filly…
A Gym Thing has returned after its run at Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh fringe in 2017. Will is a gym addict, and his addiction has escalated. It covers the…
Gracie gives us a unique insight into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) by following the journey of Gracie (played by Carla Langley). The play…
It would be easy to take a trip to National Youth Theatre’s production of The Fall with just a hint of unconscious bias. There’s something in the word ‘youth theatre’ that…
