REVIEW: John Robb – Do You Believe In Rock n Roll?
Reading Time: 3 minutesEdinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms on a cold dark October evening is a fitting venue for tonight’s event.
Claire McArthur
REVIEW: Intoxicated Honeymoon
Reading Time: 2 minutesA chilly October night in the Bedlam Theatre, the Edinburgh University Theatre Company presented “Intoxicated Honeymoon”, written and co-directed by Victoria Ge, an English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh.
REVIEW: Peaky Blinders: Rambert
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe doors leading into Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre are papered with advice of being “under new management, by order of the Peaky Blinders”, and inside, staff are wearing the unmistakable flat cap uniform immortalised in the eponymous BBC drama series. The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, a stage adaptation by Rambert Dance, leans heavy on the appeal of the source material from the outset.
REVIEW: Kiran Saggu: Slacks
Reading Time: 2 minutesKiran Saggu is the first comedian to make art about wanting to tell a man on the Tube to get his dick out of her pocket. Probably.
REVIEW: Ruby Carr: eBae
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s always fun to see how the pre-show music translates to the show itself. With Ruby Carr’s show eBae, we’re setting the scene with Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop”, before Madonna’s “Material Girl” has the audience humming along, and Ruby enters to the Kaiser Chiefs “Ruby” (of course).
REVIEW: We used to be girl scouts
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We Used To Be Girl Scouts” is one of nine shows being performed at this year’s Fringe, by students and recent graduates of the acting and directing programmes from Edinburgh Napier.
REVIEW: Float
Reading Time: 2 minutesFloat is a new production by Northern Irish writers Kirby Thompson and Orla Graham, co-directed by Thompson and Caoimhe McGee.
REVIEW: Bat For Lashes
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh saw the last night of the Bat for Lashes tour, and what a note to end it on. Bat for Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has played here before, remarking in a soft and husky voice on the memory of the distinctive blue and gold decor, and produced a night that no-one in attendance will forget in a hurry.
REVIEW: The Fifth Step
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fifth Step, the latest play by David Ireland, and produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, is a story about the relationship between two men in sobriety. Directed by Finn den Hertog, we meet James (Sean Gilder) and Luka (Jack Lowden) - James having been sober for many years, and Luka being new to sobriety, and in need of guidance. As James becomes Luka’s sponsor and attempts to take him through the 12 steps, the relationship becomes tumultuous, resulting in a shattering climax. Dark humour sparkles in every scene, deftly laced in conversations around religion, sex, arson, fathers, adultery, women and spiritual enlightenment.
REVIEW: BURNOUT
Reading Time: 2 minutesBURNOUT is a one-woman show, where Aneta Kölblová plays Fern, a woman in her late 20s, struggling with loneliness and fruitless relationships. Except for bananas, we’ll come to that.