Teaching Shakespeare - not a selling title, surely - claims more than 150 performances, which, for all I know, is a Fringe record. The actor (presumably Keir Cutler, credited as 'playwright') lectures to us, as a university Shakespeare class. He is devoted to Shakespeare; his approach is a random, free-association one. He speaks briefly of Titus, Hamlet, a sonnet, of verse forms, biogrpahy and the significance of what is not said. This is more sophisticated than The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged (at the Arts a few years ago); less fun than Shakespeare in Love. He is the instructor as...

Miracle in Rwanda is a dramatic triumph that will leave you hanging on actor Leslie Lewis Sword’s every word.

The one-woman show, directed and co-created by Edward Vilga, tells the true story of bestselling author of “Left to Tell” Immaculee Llibagiza, a Rwandan Tutsi who was hidden during a months-long genocidal massacre that claimed one million lives. She takes refuge with seven others in an impossibly cramped space while the Hutu militia hunts for them.

But this is not just a story of survival. It is about a religious awakening and overcoming the limits of human beings to forgive.

Sword...