Shows
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FestivalsHarder 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 -
FestivalsLast 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 -
FestivalsNo 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 -
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Gabe Day @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A demented American televangelist minister has declared to his many followers that the world is about to end, so club owners Charlie and Kate do the sensible... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Sock Puppet @ Pleasance Courtyard
Haunted sock meets desperate man. Murders ensue. With a hilarious B-movie style, Sock Puppet consists of two ghost stories that eventually fuse into one, and... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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An Actor's Lament @ Assembly
As a critic, one suspects it would be very easy to be offended by Berkoff’s latest comedy, seeing as he drops in many scathing and vitriolic remarks ab... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience @ B'est Restaurant
Hilarious, delicious, Faulty Towers: the Dining Experience is a Fringe Legend. Now in its sixth consecutive year at Edinburgh, the show plus ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Dark Matter @ Summerhall
If you were strolling through Leith later in the evening, winding down from a hectic day of Fringe activities in the city centre, you may have spotted an exc... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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The Fanny Hill Project @ Zoo
The Fanny Hill Project is a powerful discussion of society's perception of sex workers. Kyra is invited on stage to tell the story of how and why she came to... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Don Quijote @ Summerhall
Don Quijote is a brave and funny performance that recontextualises and reclaims the importance of Cervantes' book. Although there is obviously a great deal o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013