Khashabi Theatre’s Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah opens with intimate warmth rather than distant spectacle. Creators Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel set an inviting tone as actors greet audience members like friends arriving…

Paul Howard’s The Sh*t Table extracts exquisite, toxic hilarity from wedding reception exile. Don’t Think Twice Theatre delivers a flawless Fringe triumph.

In SLAY, writer-performer Lois-Amber Toole channels Gen-Z bravado and trauma into a darkly funny, surreal, and fiercely original solo performance.

Stockard Channing guides David Westhead through a bleakly witty, finely calibrated revival of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy.

Inside Greyfriars Kirk, poet Len Pennie and composer Paul Leonard-Morgan turn personal anguish into luminous art with cinematic strings and sharp Scots banter.