Edinburgh Review: Ablutions, Assembly Roxy
It’s rare to find music as the star of a piece that isn’t outwardly a musical, but Ablutions is just that: an intriguing adaptation of Patrick DeWitt’s booze-so...
Tom Kwei
Edinburgh Review: The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant, Assembly Rooms
As the vote for Scottish independence draws ever closer, there seems to be no escape from the contentious question. Whether that debate be in this world of ours...
Edinburgh Review: Glue, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
Sperm, unlike plays, don’t need a reason to exist; indeed their very quick reality is spent entirely searching for meaning. The main issue with Glue then, a set...
Edinburgh Review: Alba – A New Scottish Musical, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
If you take Alba – A New Scottish Musical purely on plot, it seems filled with contrivances. Expatriate, hardworking Roddy begins the piece forced to return to ...
Edinburgh Review: God on Trial, C nova
God on Trial is a visceral and punishing piece of theatre. It's less of a coherent narrative and more of a philosophical debate, one that follows Jews in Auschw...
Edinburgh Review: Mercury Fur, C
Set in a dystopian future where zebras run through crowds ablaze and supermarket decapitations become normality, Mercury Fur is a brutal yet oddly beautiful wat...
Tom Kwei
Tom is a performance poet/critic from Birmingham. Coming to the art of performance poetry from an interest in hip-hop, his pieces are dense and lyrical, revelling in witty rhythms and wordplay. Tom performs regularly around the country, competing in the 2013 Roundhouse Poetry Slam as well as supporting Jon Gomm at a sold out show in Liverpool. In 2014 he wrote and directed a spoken word web series pilot entitled, What They Said, the first of its kind within the literary scene. He also maintains a small art blog in which he records his first thoughts of paintings he’s just seen.