Archive for August 7th, 2024
Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act
★★★☆☆ An Epilogue
The scene is set. Dr Watson, having succumbed to a fatal heart attack, has just been buried, and Sherlock Holmes, his long-term partner and friend has returned alone to the Baker Street flat they shared.
Waiting
★★★★☆ Chilling
We are all familiar with an Edna Gould, the old lady at the heart of Kate Farrell’s monologue, Waiting, produced by Farrell Productions at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall, for the first week of the Fringe only.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
★★★★☆ Appetising treat
Community group Captivate Theatre present a new production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Edinburgh Academy which fills the mind with wonder.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Six
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh. Here’s day Six. The day of the random ice skater…
Slash
★★★★☆ Witty and clever
Slash is a witty murder mystery with a clever twist. Performed at Bedlam by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, the show is a whodunnit with perfect comedic timing. Set entirely in a boy’s toilet.
Macbeth: Sleep No More
★★★☆☆ Well Spoken
Reducing Shakespeare’s cast of forty-plus characters to a company of four female performers, Shadow Road Productions brings Macbeth: Sleep No More back to the Fringe in an adaptation that encapsulates the essence of the Scottish Play.
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical Junior
★★★★★ Charming
Fringe regulars Captivate Theatre bring their sell-out junior version of Matilda to the Edinburgh Academy for the second year, playing there for the first half of the fringe.
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