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Chat Masala’s guest booker, Andrew Rogers, on Edinburgh

‘I cannot off the top of my head think of a better gig to have had.’ Read more here.

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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Oedipus receives four stars from Fringe Review

‘This is an exceptional piece of theatre.’ Read the full review here.

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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.

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Four stars for Cabaret Whore from Fest Mag

‘Cabaret Whore simultaneously mocks the genre and displays great affection for it.’ Read the full review here.

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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 [...]

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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.

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