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VENUE: DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE >>> Following a sell-out run at Bush Theatre, Shifters is relocating from West London to the West End for a nine-week run in the prestigious Duke of York Theatre on St Martin’s Lane. Seeing as Shifters...

VENUE: PLEASANCE COURTYARD, EDINBURGH >>> When I walked past a poster recently of Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story near London’s King’s Head Theatre, little did I know that it is produced by the same team behind undoubtedly one of my favourite shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. Awkward Productions, comprising...

VENUE: TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH >>> The Sound Inside tells the compelling story of Ivy League creative writing professor Bella Baird and rebellious freshman student Christopher.  Baird enters unannounced onto a sparse black stage.  It is misty with dry ice.  The atmosphere is eerie and edgy...

VENUE: UNDERBELLY, EDINBURGH >>> With Book and Lyrics by award-winning rhymester Sam Norman, Music by Oxford First Class Honours graduate Aaron King whose professional CV is quickly becoming very impressive, and Co-created by TV producers Nell Butler (Airline; Celebrities Behaving Badly; You Be the Judge) and Genevieve Welch...

VENUE: ROUNDABOUT AT SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH >>> Tones - A Hip Hop Opera is written and performed by Gerel Falconer an award winning actor, writer and Rapaturg, Artistic Associate and Playwright at HighRise Theatre. Hailing from North West London, Falconer is also a rapper known as G-R3AL R3AL G. Developed and directed by Jonny Kelly, The production is a coming of age story about Jerome...

VENUE: PARK THEATRE >>> If you have been unlucky enough to experience trauma in your life, you will know how it can change in a split second. You will be aware of how all-consuming it can become and how you can never go back to the person...