Shay Mace

bingefringe.com — How does a show that aims to appraise and impact upon seven different rich and interesting problems manage to engage it's audience without a story? Exactly how Sweating the Small Stuff does it, that's how. Part PSA, part verbatim theatre, all irreverently entertaining, York Drama Soc have hit the nail on the head with this one.

bingefringe.com — The three muses of the Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti join together to tell the stories of their lives, and for the most part, his own. All three eventually act as models for his work, variously scathing one another and scheming to have Rossetti for themselves.

bingefringe.com — It was a huge gamble. The last announcement on the lifting of Scotland's lockdown restrictions came just days before the festival began in earnest. For small semi-professional arts companies up and down the country, putting a show on in Edinburgh this August it was a risk that had to pay off.

bingefringe.com — The plight of so-called "gig economy" workers has been played out quite publicly over the past few years in the media consciousness. From the D*liveroo rider strikes to the Ub*r driver court cases, this muddy territory of workers' rights is of particular salience right now.

bingefringe.com — Radio 69 tells the story of a small community radio station in the fictional town of Frogsburgh in the Scottish Borders. It's a show that sets out to prove there's nowt as queer as folk.

bingefringe.com — Central to the set of Moonlight on Leith is a large tapestry of the moon overlooking the ocean. This is apt, as in many ways the show acts as a tapestry of interwoven stories and fragments from the neighbourhood.

bingefringe.com — An ailing comic book shop in a small Scottish town is the setting for Saving Mr Ultimate. It's also just about all that seventeen year old comic book geek Paul has left as a memory of his father besides a few issues of Mr Ultimate, written by him and his brother.

bingefringe.com — Screen 9 is a visceral, immersive theatrical experience which dives into the very heart of the experiences of survivors of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting. On entering the theatre you are greeted by the smell of popcorn - something that later on becomes especially prominent and disturbing - and invited to help yourself to bags of the snack left next to a machine on the side of the stage.

bingefringe.com — She's been putting together a kick ass speech for a year now. But in the moment that she meets him, she accidentally agrees to go to dinner that night. Now she's in her room and she has decisions to make - should she go? What does she wear? What should she say?

bingefringe.com — What happens when the Doctor has finally killed all the bad guys? This is the question that the brilliantly funny Doctor Whom sets out to answer.

bingefringe.com — What does it mean to love? How does grief express itself? How can we forgive others, and most importantly, ourselves? For All The Love You Lost is an ensemble piece striking at the very heart of love, loss, anxiety and romance for young people in the modern world.