Review: Armstrong’s War
Armstrong’s War features just two characters – a young Canadian soldier who is recovering in hospital after a stint in Afghanistan, and a 12-year-old girl gui...
Alice Weleminsky-Smith
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lights, Camera, Improvise!
(4/5 stars) After stand-up comedy, improvisation is probably the most prevalent form at the Edinburgh Fringe. It seems to be everywhere, and as all improv is r...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Blood Ties
(4/5 Stars) How far would you go to help a friend? That’s the question put to the characters in the musical Blood Ties who go to throw their friend a hen pa...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong with Jaye Griffiths
(4/5 Stars) Nihal Armstrong is the son of Rahila Gupta, who wrote the script for this one woman show Don’t Wake Me. Part poetry, part monologue, the story t...
Review: The Pitmen Painters
How do you create a hit play? Take your last successful piece of writing, change a few details and make it into something new! Anyone who has not yet seen Lee...
Review: Directors Showcase: The Burglar Who Failed & Dutchman
No matter what the production, I always find a trip to the Orange Tree Theatre a treat, as its intimate in-the-round setting brings you so close to the action t...
Alice Weleminsky-Smith
When Alice is not busy pretending to study for her Drama and English degree at the University of Birmingham, she can be found making films with the student television station Guild TV, producing and directing theatre, writing for A Younger Theatre and What’s Peen Seen? and eating vast amounts of cheese