... Good Morning Mr Burns Netherbow Brought up in a Bums-worshipping household, young businesswoman Lorna refuses to idolise the poet, yet is utterly fascinated by him, 3 installing a life-size statue in her liv ing room. In a tantalisingly one-way conversation with the figure, she poses her own very personal ques tions about the life and loves of the Scottish bard, probing the secrets of his ...

... Africa Dream Theatre (1) DeMarco Foundation Bart Wolffe's programme consists of six solo plays offered In random permutations of two at each performance. This evening the Zimbabwebased author/director featured Rumours in the Wind, with African actor Wiina Msamati, and Daughter of Darkness, with Janelle Jenvey. In the first a character who, in less polite times would have been called a ...

... Baby Love Theatre Workshop Quicksilver Theatre Company has a long-standing reputation for produc ing high-quality, exciting children's theatre. In this production it deals with the monumental moment in a child's life when a new baby arrives on to the scene. Featuring only two characters Harry and the baby, Myra Baby Love focuses on sibling rivalry and accompanying feelings of suspended ...

... Four Pigmen of the Apocalypse Cafe Royal This four-strong, baby-faced team i may be taking its first tentative steps into the world of stanokip, but two members will soon realise that it takes more than sketchily- prepared material and a slight con cession to the art of performance to engage sturdy gig-goers. They do not have far to look for a few tips. James Cook, who looks and acts like ...

... Saturday Night Forever Harry Younger Hall Edinburgh is swamped with one- man shows masquerading as theatre. Sometimes, as with this production, it brings out some of the best performances on offer. But all too often there is a feeling of thriftiness with these productions. Take Saturday Night Forever. Roger Williams' play, which uses the backdrop of the Cardiff club scene as a setting for one ...

... Tommy Tiernan Pleasance Tommy Tieman has established a major reputation in a short space of time and this, his first full-length standHjp show on the Fringe, is an indication of a rapidly developing talent. He is more a storyteller in the style of other Irish comics, such as Owen O'Neill, than a club act, but his past experience as an actor gives him the command he requires in order to keep ...

... Transatlantic Pleasance Despite a high standard of performance, effective set design by Karen Tennent and inspired direction by Nicola McCartney, Transatlantic simply does not work as a theatre text. Its disjointed structure and mixture of entertaining dialogue with non-naturalistic moments of externalised subtext form the kind of text that might be more appropriate for the radio. Lookout ...

... An Evening with Brendan and Radar? WJ Christie's These two New Zealand comedians appearing separately on stage could not be more different in style and approach. Brendan Lovegrove gives the impression that he relies on contributions from the floor to kick-start his routine. Radar, with his bleached blond hair, reedy voice and wealth of ner vous energy, hurtles through his two spots like a man ...

... Attwood and Vernon's Palace of Varieties Stand As lunchtime sketch shows go, this is an easy enough way into your day, from a couple of Mancunian comics who clearly have a lot of a new ideas. Elvis impersonator Pelvis, foot ball boss the Elephant Manager and right wing crooner Frank Sinazi are among the best creations wheeled out during the show, which is boldly performed by Mark Attwood and ...

... Rudy Coby Gilded Balloon at the Palladium If Rudy Coby is not the coolest magician in the world, as he is billed, then there is another illusionist sitting on an awfully cold iceberg somewhere up near Spitzbergen. And although Coby's cool might initially emanate from a reliance on some serious technology, his stage presence and poise keep it well up there. After an initial bout of flash ...

... Subtle try at communication Edinburgh International Festival Edinburgh Playhouse Zumzum Ka Cesc Gelabert is a Catalonian dancer, choreographer, teacher of dance--and a trained architect. He is a co-founder of Companyia de Oansa Gelabert-Azzopardi, whose new show Zumzum.Ka is a prime example of his diversity as a creative artist. Zumzum is a Catalan word for the sound made by bees, Ka, on the ...

... ZVBXRPL Southside Courtyard Clever and inventive, the writers of ZVBXRPL (Don't ask they don't tell) are poorly served by the undisciplined and under-rehearsed performers of ZVBXRPL. And the noteworthy thing about that is that they are the same people. Chris Chapman and Miles Watts have a way with words and the courage not to shrink from puns and ancient gags. Their tale of mur der and ...