Greenside @ Infirmary Street
How To Rob a Millionaire (In Five Easy Steps)
★★★☆☆ Fun
A cleverly constructed plot, discharged at breakneck speed, makes Napier University Drama Society’s How To Rob a Millionaire (In Five Easy Steps) a cheerful and comically satisfying production.
Kitchen Underwear
★★★☆☆ Enjoyable and engaging
Kitchen Underwear by Fringe debutants Hey Thanks! Theatre Collective is an enjoyable and engaging two-hander about flatmates who clearly have significant feelings for each other.
Sir Percival and the Jabberwock
★★★☆☆ Epic ambition
There is a poetic sensibility at work in Kestrel Eye Production’s Sir Percival and the Jabberwock, at Greenside @ Infirmary Street, that overcomes huge difficulties to create a fascinating result.
Fringe names new hub
Infirmary Street venue preferred for Community Hub
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has named the South Bridge Resource Centre on Infirmary Street as its preferred site for a new Community Hub, using the £7 million allocated to it in the UK Government’s spring budget.
SAY IF IT’S NOT OKAY
★★★★☆ Personal and universal
There is a quiet determination to Angela Jackson’s SAY IF IT’S NOT OKAY at Greenside @ Infirmary St that makes for an intensely personal and extremely worthwhile hour.
Contact
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Broadsword Theatre’s Contact has a vitality that overcomes its drawbacks. At Greenside @ Infirmary Street for one week only, the play is a tonal mish-mash that nevertheless has substantial appeal.
Flat Pack Furnished Flat
★★★☆☆ Strong performances
Flat Pack Furnished Flat, at Greenside at Infirmary Street for the full fringe, follows a mother and daughter as one of them moves into a new flat.
Atlantis
★★☆☆☆ Attempted Utopia:
In Atlantis by Broadsword Theatre, playing at Greenside @ Infirmary Street for week two of the Fringe only, the myth of the lost city has been recreated on an island, home to a strict community.
Sad Eyes to Smile With
★★★★☆ Painful knowledge:
It is rarer than you might imagine to find Fringe shows whose title accurately reflects the content. Sad Eyes to Smile With, by Activising For Change at Greenside @ Infirmary Street, is definitely one – a bittersweet piece whose sadness is nevertheless combined with a determination to keep hoping.
In Space…
★★★★☆ Hilariously ambitious:
Napier University Drama Society take us into space in this sci-fi comedy musical, their first original Fringe production at Greenside venues.
