Reviews
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FestivalsHamlet: The Wooster Group @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
The Wooster Group's Hamlet is an experimental, challenging work with an avant garde genesis but a more general appeal through its sense of humour and use of&... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsUlysses @ Paterson's Land
James Joyce: the master of modernist literature, the hero of Dublin, the man whose work is respected, feared and reviled in equal measure by every English li... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsBad Boy Eddie @ C Aquilla
Bad Boy Eddie invites its audience to look in on the after affects of what happens when personal demons become too much for a family to contain. With a mode... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
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The Confessions Of Gordon Brown @ Pleasance Courtyard
Every year, the theme of politics saturates the Fringe theatre scene, and by the very nature of political theatre not everything will appeal to everyone's id... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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The Bunker Trilogy: Morgana @ C Nova
It says something about the quality of Jethro Compton’s productions and the uniqueness of his trilogy of bunker-set plays that they have people scrambl... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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The Bunker Trilogy: Agamemnon @ C Nova
Jethro Compton directs three plays inspired by great dramatic and literary figures, beginning with part one of The Oresteia Read more »| 14 Aug 2013
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The Bunker Trilogy: Macbeth @ C Nova
The bunker of the play’s title is undoubtedly the star attraction of Jethro Compton’s immersive offering to the Fringe. The cramped performance s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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Beats @ Pleasance Above
With Kieran Hurley behind the mic and DJ Hush Puppy at the decks, Beats looks at how the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act criminalising raves in 1994 af... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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The Librarians @ TheSpace on North Bridge
Stilts and Puppetry, down in the old li'bry. Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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From Where I'm Standing @ Underbelly Cowgate
Theatre company :DELIRIUM:'s From Where I'm Standing is a haunting time-travel experience that starts in the present moment in Mumbai, when a disaster forces... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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Measure For Measure @ Zoo Southside
Shakespeare at the Fringe is inevitable, a key part of the festival's make up. It is also tricky. Everything has to be edited and cut down, often into only a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsOresteia @ C
Adapting and updating Greek tragedy is always a tough task, especially when it comes to Aeschylus’s trilogy of a fractured family’s bloodbath of ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
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Pigeon English @ Underbelly Cowgate
Eleven year old Harri (David C. Johnson) lives in a deprived inner city council estate with his mother and sister having recently moved from Ghana. Faced wit... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
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Circa: Wunderkammer @ Underbelly McEwan Hall
Following an episodic cabaret format rather than a grand narrative, Wunderkammer is a funny, daring, sexy, and subversive circus-style show. Admittedly, some... Read more »| 12 Aug 2013 -
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Julien Cottereau: Imagine Toi @ Assembly Roxy
With physical comedy genius that can only be compared to that of Roberto Benigni, Julien Cottereau creates a show based heavily on mime and, as the title imp... Read more »| 12 Aug 2013