Pleasance venues
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.
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.
At Home With Will Shakespeare
★★★★★ Sans nothing
It’s a popular image of Shakespeare: the great Bard, bent over his desk, quill flying over parchment as he composes some of the greatest drama ever put on the stage. But in At Home With Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton’s Shakespeare does not write freely…
Hamstrung
★★★★☆ Method in’t
“A fellow of infinite jest,” is how Shakespeare introduced deceased court jester Yorick, but the Yorick of George Rennie’s Hamstrung is a being as existential as the appearance of his skull at a pivotal moment in Hamlet’s crisis deserves.
Chatterbox
★★★★☆ Gentle humour
Lubna Kerr’s Chatterbox, at the Pleasance Courtyard all Fringe, builds on her difficult experiences of growing up as a child of Muslim heritage in 1970s Scotland.
Tit Swingers
★★★★★ Omg they were crewmates
From the team behind Julie: the Musical comes Tit Swingers, a Punk Gig Musical – with added Pirates. To the wild riffing of electric guitar, bass, and drums, Le Gasp! Productions tells the unapologetically queer story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read: pirate queens, hellcats, tit swingers. Oh, and Calico Jack— he’s there too.
