Kenny Burnham, Dramaturg & Playwright

27/08/2025

A review of Lost Lear.

In the experience of sense, the question arises what happens when we dead awaken? There is; however, another question: what happens when awakening, it goes unnoticed? Lost Lear is a lament to the creeping grief witnessed by most families: dementia.

21/08/2025

A review of Tom at the Farm

Just before the play commences, two figures emerge to unfold a massive brown tarpaulin across the stage. A couple of buckets are strategically placed and stage left there is a large chain sling connected to a commensurately sized hook. Fitting for a large industrial farm. Yet it looms menacingly. As

20/08/2025

My review of Ascension.

A man sits on a bare stage. He is preceded by a white bench…and however many days it has taken to reach this moment. As he contemplates existence, the audience contemplates him. This is how Ascension starts. The man, Dutch sailor Leendert Hasenbosch (Dan Hazelwood), has been exiled on an island

18/08/2025

Elon Musk: Lost In Space reviewed.

Parodying people such as Elon Musk is not a trivial task. He already seems like a cartoon. Musk says and does ridiculous things in real life. Leaning yet more in that direction demands plutonium grade material so as not to replicate the version who frequently appears in the news. Elon Musk: Lost In

17/08/2025

My review of My Marlene

I know so little of Marlene Dietrich’s life that a mere trace of information would register as a new classification in my knowledge base. So, to come away with a rounded sense of Dietrich’s life during the war years in the space of an hour is a massive tribute to the talents of writer Tjaša Fer...

17/08/2025

My review of A Drag Is Born at EdFringe

Physical transformation might be the ultimate in ‘show, don’t tell’. The power of speech is replaced with the universality of body language. The transition between the inner and outer self is dialogically framed to arrive at a shared understanding with the audience. This is powerfully projecte...

07/08/2025

Really pleased to say that my 2021 production, A Journey Around My Room, is featured on this week’s episode of Made In Scotland.

Great performances from Jill Korn, Lorenzo Novani, David Sillars and Alex Bennett!

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/made-in-scotland/id1810270723?i=1000720965280

25/07/2025

My review of Morning Star currently running at Theatre 118.

Theatre 118 has got off to a flying start with their Play of The Week series which has delivered a new production for each week of July. It is a testament to their talent, ideas and utter dedication that they have pulled this off in so short a time without an iota of a hitch. In so doing, they ha

23/07/2025

My review of ‘Su***de, and Other Acts of Selfishness’ performed at Theatre 118

The view from a bridge catches people in different ways. For some it is a salve for that which has come before. For others it offers the promise of a way out. For all it is a displacement activity: some place other than here, now. Kieran Lee-Hamilton’s play explores both strands from near opposite...

11/07/2025

My review of ‘Madonna / W***e’ running as part of Theatre 118’s ‘Play of the Week’

The first to disappear in any murder story is the person who has suffered fatal harm. They are reduced to an ethnically defined, gendered, life-styled archetype with a number pertaining to their age stamped on their forehead. Oh, and they are always warm, generous and friendly. To a fault. Which is