Verbatim Theatre

Concerned Others

Concerned Others

★★★★☆ Profound impact

Tortoise in a Nutshell’s new verbatim documentary, Concerned Others, at Summerhall all Fringe, uses puppets and animation rather than actors to bring its script to life.

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The People Woke Up

The People Woke Up

Chilling verbatim theatre

The People Woke Up finds ice&fire theatre company using contemporary verbatim accounts to focus its long-running Actors for Human Rights project on the 2020 election crisis in Belarus and its fallout.

Sep 30 2022 | By | Reply More
Locker Room Talk

Locker Room Talk

★★★★☆ Troubling:

Deeply worrying and fascinatingly constructed, Locker Room Talk’s return to the Traverse is intriguing in theatrical terms and thoroughly unwelcome in what it reminds us about the world we inhabit.

Apr 24 2019 | By | 1 Reply More
Edinburgh trams play announced

Edinburgh trams play announced

Edinburgh’s Trams are to step up from being the butt of pantomime mockery to the subject of a piece of verbatim theatre at the Traverse this month.

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