Archive for August 25th, 2024
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Visceral
Overstimulating, intense, shocking, and emotional, Trainspotting Live at Pleasance at EICC isn’t afraid to take it too far – and has become a sensation by doing just that.
Book Festival round-up part 2
Writing and performance from all corners of Scotland
Now firmly at home in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Book Festival continues to feature theatre-related events, performances and much else of interest.
An American Love Letter to Edinburgh
★★★★☆ Enchantingly Earnest
Equipped only with a book and a glass of water, storyteller Rick Conte masterfully intertwines the true tales of two Edinburgh visitors separated by nearly 250 years in An American Love Letter to Edinburgh at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died
★★★★☆ Inspiring
Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died, from The Joe Hill Project with Joey Shaw at C aurora, is an old-fashioned piece of political street theatre performed with clarity and focus.
Casual Encounters
★★★☆☆ Dark sex comedy
It is Saturday night and, following advice from a counsellor that he and his wife should have more sex, middle-aged Morningside banker, James, played by Ade Smith, is looking forward to his first experience of wife swapping.
Black is the Color of My Voice
★★★★☆ Stirring
Created by Apphia Campbell, Black is the Color of My Voice from Seabright Live looks back at the life of a musician, singer, and civil-rights activist on what seems to be the eve of her father’s funeral, as his death inspires her to seek clarity and redemption.
