Reviews
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FestivalsThe Autumn of Han @ TheSpace at Surgeons' Hall
The Autumn of Han is a lovely new adaptation of a traditional Chinese play, by Ross Ericson. It traces the story of ZhaoJun, tipped to be presented to The E... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsShakespeare's Cymbeline @ Just The Tonic at The Caves
Free Range Productions interpretation of Shakespeare's Cymbeline has everything that makes for a good Shakespearian production. As soon as you walk in, ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsStuart: A Life Backwards @ Underbelly
Stuart is a homeless man suffering from motor neurone disease, a larger-than-life motormouth, enchanting but unpredictable, and at risk, criminal and ment... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Toi Toi Toi @ Paradise in Augustine's
Toi Toi Toi (break a leg, if you're an opera singer,) is one for real classical music lovers. A low budget opera at the Edinburgh Fringe, about putting on a ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Expiration 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
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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 -
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Solomon & 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 -
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Tobacco 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