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REVIEW: unexplained: Live @ TheSpace

Reading Time: 2 minutesRichard MacLean Smith brings his podcast Unexplained to the Edinburgh Fringe in a live demonstration of his considerable storytelling prowess. Turning his attention to the enduring mystery of the Flannan Isles, Smith meticulously revisits the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers whose fate has perplexed generations. When the men vanished one night in December 1900, they left behind little evidence and an abundance of questions. Was it a rogue wave? An accident? Foul play? Something altogether stranger? More than a century later, we may never know.

REVIEW: What Happens in the Dark @ TheSpace

Reading Time: 2 minutesAn ordinary couple return home from a work dinner and begin the familiar rituals of settling in for the evening. Their shoes come off, their belongings are put away, and the night appears unremarkable if tense. An intruder is lurking in the darkness. When a sudden power outage plunges the characters into total darkness, the things they have been concealing begin to surface. The irony, of course, is that while everyone is unable to see, the intruder can hear everything discussed and knows considerably more than either of them.