REVIEW: East is East
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Bafta-winning play-turned-film East Is East appears at the Citizens’ Theatre this season, thirty years after first appearing at Birmingham Rep in 1996.
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REVIEW: The Pigeon Factory @ Jelly Belly, Underbelly, Cowgate
Reading Time: 2 minutesA show that puzzles and delights in equal measure
REVIEW: The Last Audition @ theSpace on the Mile
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA phenomenal performance of memory, grief, and age in theatre
REVIEW: Blackbox at Underbelly, Cowgate
Reading Time: 2 minutesBlackbox, written by the only tenured hip-hop professor in America, Rickerby Hinds, follows the true story of an enslaved US man, Henry ‘Box’ Brown.
REVIEW: …Earnest? @ Underbelly, George Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe premise of “…Earnest?” is, quite frankly, terrifying to anyone involved in theatre.
REVIEW: The Yellow Wallpaper in the Lime Studio, Greenside @ George Street
Reading Time: 2 minutesBased on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short feminist text of the same name, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been adapted by director/choreographer Caitlin Ort into a dance thriller at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
REVIEW: Transmission
Reading Time: 2 minutesTransmission’ is a vital must-see: an entertaining, fascinating show “Big Jimmy is here to tell you how to keep yur grannies safe and Make Scotland Cis Again!” Topical and terrifically true to Scotland, “Transmission” promises an entertaining,…
REVIEW: Pecking Order @ Big Belly, Underbelly Cowgate
Reading Time: 2 minutesPecking Order is a one-of-a-kind show, something found only at the Fringe. It describes itself as absurdist, which still fails to prepare an audience for the sheer bizarre nature of the show — in the best way imaginable. Five men — or are they one man? — wearing a bowler hat circulate the setting of a waiting room, which also serves as an interrogation chamber, a surgical suite, a care home, and a dozen other places. Each of them are out of place and out of the scene presented. As the play progresses, they begin to remember fragments of their previous encounters, but to no avail.
REVIEW: Between Strands @ Laughing Horse, Counting House
Reading Time: 2 minutesBetween Strands starts with a striking question: Have you ever thought about what your hair holds? Performance company Pebble Theatre certainly has. Aiming, much like a pebble, to show how ordinary objects or things can create ripples through the world, Pebble Theatre’s Between Strands explores one woman’s attempt to deal with the death of her grandmother in Taiwan whilst living in the UK. Drawing on East Asian traditions, Taiwanese rituals, and the universal experiences of grief and loss, Between Strands honours the dead through the living, both connected in this unique, beautiful piece.
REVIEW: Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight @ Dairy Room, Underbelly, Bristo Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt feels almost unjust to give Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight a conventional review, because it operates far beyond the parameters of a conventional show. What starts as a self-help comedy twists and elongates into something really indescribable, more of an experience than a simple theatrical production. Written by Olivier-nominated playwright John Kolvenbach, Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight draws every audience member into the moment, the here, the now. It asks the audience to be present and active, in the creation of art.