Reviews
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FestivalsExpiration Date @ Merchant's Hall
A hundred years in the future, your personality can be saved onto a computer when you reach your expiration date at the ripe old age of one hundred and fifty... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsIt's not what you know... @ theSpace, Surgeons Hall
It's Not What You Know... may be theatre for - but not only for - theatre-makers. At base, it is a well-told satirical look at the difficulties of getting a ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsHis Majesty, The Devil - A Play With Music @ Quaker Meeting House
What will strike people straight away about Elsewhere Ensemble is the incredible musical talent showcased in the violin performances. More than anything else... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Love In The Past Participle @ theSpace, Surgeons Hall
STaG's Love In The Past Participle is yet another piece of new writing penned by a University of Glasgow student, brought over to the fringe. Four chara... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsSolomon & Marion @ Assembly
Why has Solomon (Khaylethu Anthony) arrived at Marion's (Dame Janet Suzman) isolated house? If he has come to murder her, then Marion urges him to hurry... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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The Islanders @ Underbelly Big Belly
Part storytelling, part confessional and part music, The Islanders is an interesting mish-mash of styles put together by writer and performer Amy Mason and A... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013
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Albion Forlorn @ C Venues Aquila
Albion Forlorn describes itself in its marketing as “a torch song for the state we’re in” but it was impossible to find anything in this sl... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Harder Please @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A masochistic melodrama, Harder Please tells the tale of learning to love; of being the exploited in a world governed through exploitation. After all, surely... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Last Land / Il Gioco del Gregge di Capre @ Dancebase
Last Land evokes the vastness and slow rhythms of two landscapes: Antartica and the Bir Tawil desert between Sudan and Egypt, the last remaining Terra ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsTobacco Merchant's Lawyer @ Assembly Rooms
Set in Glasgow, 1775, the fortunes to be made from tobacco, slavery, and the moral compromises by lawyer Enoch Dalmellington which affect his bookish, 'dr... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Nirbhaya @ Assembly Hall
'Nirbhaya' means 'Fearless,' the name the girl gang-raped on a Delhi bus in December 2012 was given by the press since her horrific ordeal and subsequent dea... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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The Worst of Scottee @ Assembly Box
Narrated through a camera placed in a photo booth, The Worst of Scottee is oddly reminiscent of a confessional Skype conversation with a very good friend. Th... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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No Place Like @ Zoo (Monkey House)
No Place Like is an intelligent piece exploring memory and the sense of alienation from the self and home. After all, what is home but an expression of our e... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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One Step Before the Fall @ Zoo (Aviary)
One Step Before the Fall is a powerful piece exploring Muhammad Ali’s rise and fall – or something along those lines. Personally, the only link t... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Out of His Skin @ Zoo Southside
Out of His Skin is best described as the dance version of Fight Club. It is adrenaline-full yet ridiculously in control – to the point that the high-en... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013