Archive for August 8th, 2024
Loose Ends
★★★☆☆ Melancholy anger
1TWO1 Productions and New Celts’ Loose Ends – at theSpace on the Mile for the Fringe’s first week only – is a spare and affecting display of vulnerability.
Checking In
★★★★☆ Captivating
Bringing a fresh energy to the many familiar fictional tropes that use death as a character is a tough job. However, Simply Surreal carries it off with ease in Checking In, a laugh out loud, pacey and thought-provoking two-hander written by Dougal Thomson and directed by Lisa McDonald.
Legally Blonde
★★★★☆ Energetic
Sound Events Scotland’s Production of Legally Blonde at Saint Stephen’s Theatre for the whole Fringe, captivates the audience with an inspiring performance of the well loved musical.
Why Am I (Still) Like This?
★★★☆☆ Thinking aloud
Nicole Nadler returns to the Fringe with Why Am I (Still) Like This? produced by High Heels and Heavy Suitcases, at theSpace@Surgeons Hall, in which she asks some key questions about her ADHD diagnosis.
EdFringe lockdown memories: Day Seven
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 7 from 2020 and two venues for the price of one!
Palette to take Summerhall lease
Edinburgh Palette is set to take over the building and tenant management of Summerhall, from the current entity responsible, Summerhall Management, and is negotiating a three year lease with the current owners Oesselmann Estate Limited.
So Young
★★★★☆ Pointed
So Young by Douglas Maxwell, the Traverse co-production with Raw Material and the Citizens, is a sharply observed, profound and beautifully acted piece of theatre.
Cyrano
★★★★☆ Sparkling
The European premiere of Roast Productions’ Cyrano at the Traverse is an irreverent, intelligent and funny gender-flipped version of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
The Sound Inside
★★★☆☆ Wordy
The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp, from Cusack Projects Ltd and Half Moon Street Ltd in association with Traverse Theatre Company, comes from America garlanded with praise. While much of that praise is justified, it is also a production that exasperates as much as it impresses.
Magic of the Movies/Best of Broadway
★★★☆☆ Catchy tunes
Edinburgh Musical Theatre presents a double bill of fan-favourites in two concerts with Magic of the Movies and Best of Broadway at Edinburgh New Town Church (formerly St Andrews and St George’s West) for three nights only.
