Author: Allan Wilson
Revelations of Rab McVie
★★★★★ Stunning
Revelations of Rab McVie is a stunning piece of multimedia theatre, combining live music, live painting and raw performance, to create a truly remarkable production, at the Pleasance for two performances only.
Land Under Wave
★★★★☆ Inclusive
Land Under Wave, presented by the Young Edinburgh Storytellers, is a beautifully inclusive combination of traditional music and storytelling, brought up to date for the 21st Century.
Witch? Women on Trial
★★★☆☆ Engrossing
Witch? Women on Trial from storyteller Natalie Nardone makes excellent use of a recently opened venue, the Lost Close, deep in amongst the wynds and closes under the houses that once crowded around the Royal Mile.
Kitchen Underwear
★★★☆☆ Enjoyable and engaging
Kitchen Underwear by Fringe debutants Hey Thanks! Theatre Collective is an enjoyable and engaging two-hander about flatmates who clearly have significant feelings for each other.
Lilies on the Land
★★★★☆ Beautiful drama
Following on from the success of their production of David Haig’s Pressure in April, Arkle Theatre have returned to World War 2 for Lilies on the Land as the early evening Fringe offering.
Hickory
★★☆☆☆ Enjoyable
Hickory by Deleardley Theatre is an enjoyable tale with a flawed tail, of two mice whose short lives are spent using physical labour to drive the mechanism of a cuckoo clock.
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom
★★★★☆ Lyrical
I Hope your Flowers Bloom is a beautifully lyrical monologue in which writer and performer Raymond Wilson, presented by All the Figs at the Storytelling Centre, shows his obsession for trees and other plants, even quoting the Latin name of every tree he mentions.
The Hearth
★★★★☆ Moving reflections
In The Hearth from Brite Theater, multi-instrumentalist and storyteller Tom Oakes uses the hearth; that place in the centre of a home where a fire is traditionally lit, to spark a series of moving reflections on life and memory.
The Booth
★★★☆☆ Comic confusion
Edinburgh University Theatre Group’s The Booth takes a satirical, but affectionate, look back to the 1950s, when Foley artists ruled the airwaves, using household objects to create so many of the sound effects that brought radio drama to life.
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.
