Edinburgh Review: NSFW, C nova
Sex still sells. Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW knows this just as well as anyone, yet struggles to probe any deeper truths beyond that as it explores lads mag Doghouse b...
Tom Kwei
Edinburgh Review: Iron Crack, C nova
Set between three rooms and a whole range of visceral emotions, Iron Crack is both a widely experimental and tepidly clichéd experience that is kept afloat thro...
Edinburgh Review: Nathan Penlington: Choose Your Own Documentary, Gilded Balloon
Upon entry to Nathan Penlington’s wonderfully creative Choose Your Own Documentary, each audience member is given a small clicker remote. At various points of h...
Edinburgh Review: Absence Of… Gilded Balloon
Billed as a "surreal comedy", Absence Of… is a bewildering infuriating piece of theatre that never once in its dull hour could be called comedic. Indeed it was ...
Edinburgh Review: The Babysitters, C cubed
Why is it that criminals in a comedy have to be so bumbling? Why, too, that the gangsters within almost always have a humorous trait of humanity amongst their m...
Edinburgh Review: The Duck Pond, Bedlam Theatre
The Duck Pond, a carnival re-imagining of the Tchaivosky classic Swan Lake, is simply a breathtaking piece of theatre, one that entrances from the get go with i...
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.