EdFringe 2015
A Requiem For Edward Snowden
✭✭✭✩✩ Mourning becomes electronica:
A Requiem For Edward Snowden, the ‘digital opera’ at Stockbridge Church, has an eerie contemporaneity, treating political concerns in a way that speaks more of sorrow than of anger.
The Voice Thief
✭✭✭✭✩ Resounding success:
Involving, clever, and with an intriguing melancholy and subtle political edge, The Voice Thief at Summerhall is thoroughly recommended for all.
No Exit?
✭✭✩✩✩ Closed in:
M and E Theatre’s No Exit? is a strangely diffuse production, with plenty of energy but not much cohesion.
Hoors
✭✭✭✩✩ Lacks sparkle
Some fine young performers feature in New Celts and Nook N’ Cranny’s production of Gregory Burke’s black comedy Hoors, but it never quite hits the heights.
EdFringe tix for looked-after kids
Hundred of companies join new scheme:
Hundreds of companies with shows on at the fringe have joined a new scheme to help give complementary tickets to looked-after children in Edinburgh.
Trilogy’s trio of Fringe Firsts
Quines get third Fringe First & Trav gets three:
Stellar Quines has won its third Fringe First for the Jennifer Tremblay trilogy of plays, with one going to The Deliverance.
Help Yourself
✭✭✩✩✩ Mealy-mouthed:
Help Yourself, Foolproof Theatre’s play about injustice and self-reliance at home and abroad, has its heart in the right place but is strangely ineffectual.
Bakersfield Mist
✭✭✩✩✩ Bakersfield missed:
Despite a great deal of care and two capable actors, Bakersfield Mist at the Royal Scots Club from Arkle Theatre Company never really gets off the ground.
The Voice Thief
✭✭✭✭✩ Interactive magic
Young critics scheme review:
Surreal, entertaining and quirky, The Voice Thief performed by Catherine Wheels takes you on an interactive tour of MIEVH, a voice correction facility.
Much Ado About Nothing
✭✭✭✩✩ Mixed success:
Arkle’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Royal Scots Club overcomes a less than well thought-out central concept to deliver a solid, enjoyable production.