Clare Simpson
Death is the New Porn
✭✭✭✩✩ Adrenaline pumped
Intense and driven student company, Blazing Hyena (in association with New Celts Productions) stage a thoroughly professional production of Death is the New Porn at theSpace on the Bridge.
Sophie Wu is Minging, She Looks Like She’s Dead
✭✭✭✩✩ Gently amusing
Angst-ridden adolescence bubbles through Sophie Wu is Minging, She Looks Like She’s Dead, part of the PBH Free Fringe at Edinburgh Art College’s Wee Red Bar.
National Loaf
✭✭✩✩✩ Amusing romp
Charlotte Productions provide a quirky take on WW2 rationing at the Vault on Merchant Street in a production which could do with tightening up a tad.
Unfaithful
✭✭✭✭✩ Astute and funny
Can relationships survive infidelity? Owen McCafferty’s play, Unfaithful, at the Traverse is both astute and funny in tackling this thorny subject.
Men in the Cities
✭✭✭✭✩ Raw passion
Chris Goode is angry and with good reason. In his tautly written and beautifully executed monologue at the Traverse, he examines contemporary masculinity with a searing, raw passion that wears its hurt on its sleeve.
