Archive for August, 2024
A Knock on the Roof
★★★★☆ Politics of horror
A Knock on the Roof, Khawla Ibraheem’s play at the Traverse for piece by piece productions, is a chilling evocation of war and its human cost.
Murder at the Fringe
★★★☆☆ Fun exercise
Murder at the Fringe, by Edinburgh Little Theatre, is extremely courageous. The audience is closely involved in the solving of a murder, with six suspects lined up for questioning.
Malvolio’s Fantasy
★★★☆☆ Tentative
Zuzabella Productions’ Malvolio’s Fantasy at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall is an adaptation of Shakespeare that is at its best when it is furthest from its source.
Tom Greaves: FUDGEY
★★★★☆ Tragicomedy
Tom Greaves: FUDGEY at the Assembly Roxy is a funny, disturbing and at times deeply tragic piece, featuring convincing storytelling and wonderful physical comedy from Edinburgh-based writer/performer Greaves.
Dear Billy
★★★★☆ Devotional
Gary McNair presents a remount of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Dear Billy, A Love Letter to the Big Yin at the Assembly Rooms on George Street for a ten date run at the fringe.
Planetarium Lates: You Are Here
★★★☆☆ Humbling
Planetarium Lates: You Are Here at Dynamic Earth, takes the audience on an immersive and dizzying journey through the universe. In the comfort of your own seat, travel to infinity and beyond, breaking the laws of physics to find out where we are exactly in the galaxy.
Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
★★★☆☆ Uncompromising
Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a challengingly complex update to the Greek myth of Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.
The One Couple Show
★★★☆☆ Original
The One Couple Show is an autobiographical love story between Pirita Tuiski and Thabo Mokolobate, detailing their lives before and after they met, playing ZOO Playground for the first two weeks of the Fringe.
Stepping Out
★★★☆☆ Feel good
Leitheatre has been performing on the Fringe for 40 years and this year’s show, Stepping Out at Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, is of an appropriate vintage, although its plot is in no way dated.
A History of Fortune Cookies
★★★★☆ Sweet treat
A History of Fortune Cookies written and performed by Glasgow-based spoken word artist Sean Wai Keung at Summerhall, is one of those unique and unexpected performances that one may only find at a festival like the Fringe.
