Archive for August 6th, 2024
Please Right Back (EIF)
★★★★☆ Dizzying invention
Kent-based company 1927 use their signature combination of live action and animation to great effect in the International Festival’s Please Right Back at the Studio.
An Unexpected Hiccup
★★★★☆ Joyous
An Unexpected Hiccup, Lung Ha and Plutôt La Vie’s production, which was first staged under COVID conditions, has been revived to herald the new Lung Ha touring company. And what a welcome revival it is.
My English Persian Kitchen
★★★★☆ Fulfilling
Soho Theatre and the Traverse’s My English Persian Kitchen may deal with some potentially difficult issues but is ultimately a celebration – of life, of community and of the possibilities of theatre.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Five
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. Here’s day 5 – with THAT wee dog on photobombing duty!
Dido & Aeneas
★★★☆☆ Small but mighty
Fife Opera’s stripped-down production of Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas in the airy stained-glass nave of Edinburgh New Town Church, is small in scale but sacrifices nothing in emotion or vocal quality.
TERF
★★★★☆ Thought provoking
TERF, written and directed by Joshua Kaplan, blazes into the Fringe to a cacophony of Twitter notification pings, bringing unapologetic social commentary to the stage, 280 characters at a time.
