‘I cannot off the top of my head think of a better gig to have had.’ Read more here.
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Chat Masala’s guest booker, Andrew Rogers, on Edinburgh
5 stars for Oedipus from Theatreguide
‘Don’t come to Berkoff expecting understatement; come for the uninhibited but highly disciplined joy of open theatricality, here in the service of a play that fully responds to the approach.’ Read the review here.
Somewhere Beneath It All gets 4 stars from One4Review
‘Nichol is a top class actor too, and anyone coming to see this many layered production will be able to testify too.’ Read the full review here.
4 stars for An Instinct For Kindness from The Financial Times
Uncomplicated storytelling also makes a direct connection with listeners. In An Instinct for Kindness (Pleasance Dome), Chris Larner uses his more familiar comic skills to leaven and draw us into the poignant real-life tale of his trip to a Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland with his MS-suffering ex-wife. The full review is not available online so we have put [...]
An Instinct For Kindness gets five stars from Whatsonstage
‘An Instinct for Kindness raises profound questions – about life, death, love and much more’ You can read the full review here.
Oedipus receives four stars from Fringe Review
‘This is an exceptional piece of theatre.’ Read the full review here.
Lights, Cameras, Walkies Zoe Gardner talks about her Fringe
‘As always it’s been stimulating and as always I’ve learnt stuff.’ Read the full write up here.
4 Stars for Somewhere Beneath It All from Metro
Hard-hitting drama burns bright The full review is below as it is not yet available online. Appearances can be deceptive. This blackly humorous monologue written by Dave Florez, a talented graduate of the Royal Court’s Young Writers’ Programme, begins as a stream of consciousness of a young man called Kevin (Phil Nichol), who is sitting [...]
5 stars for Somewhere Beneath It All from Across the Arts
‘What it is, in the end, is a tour de force and a brilliant reminder or how excellent of a performer Nichol is.’ Read the full review here.
