Archive for August 5th, 2024
In Two Minds
★★★☆☆ Insightful
Two excellent performances distinguish In Two Minds from Dublin’s Fishamble at the Traverse for the duration of the Fringe.
Batshit
★★★☆☆ Theatrical
Batshit by Leah Shelton and Quiet Riot, at the Traverse all Fringe, is a forceful, politically necessary and knowing piece of theatre.
A History of Paper
★★★★★ Heartbreaking
A History of Paper at the Traverse is a production of rare emotional weight, whose overall impact is out of all proportion to its comparatively small scale.
Into the Woods
★★★★★ Dark
Bare Productions go hard on Into the Woods, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s popular mashup of fairytales, to expose its utter cruelty and the callousness of many of the favourite pantomime heroes that people the musical.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Four
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Day Four: The Pleasance.
Shakespeare adjacent pairings
It’s the Bard, Bill, just not as you know him
Following Necessary Cat’s brilliant pairing of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Fringe of 2023, the Edinburgh-based company is back with Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane.
