Author: Ed Boulter-Comer
We Have a Dream
★★★★☆ Becoming Men
It’s never really about football, is it? As much as We Have a Dream at theSpace @ Symposium Hall explodes with the energy, crumpled flags and lager of a doomed Euros campaign, this is a piece about being a man. Or perhaps more accurately, about becoming a man.
Golden Beryl: Special Oblivion
★★★★☆ Ludicrous
If you haven’t been threatened with assassination at the Pianodrome, have you really been to the Fringe? Leaning heavily on the other in the “Theatre, comedy, other” bracket, The Golden Beryl team invade the Pianodrome at St Oswald’s with Golden Beryl: Special Oblivion.
How to Write a Novel (or Not)
★★★☆☆ A Privilege
The poet Jenny Joseph warns that she will wear purple with a red hat which doesn’t go. Marie-Louise Mills is far too chic for that in her solo show of reminiscences, How to Write a Novel (or Not).
Prophets
★★★★★ Claustrophobic Horror
Prophets is a claustrophobic and intense hour at the RoxyBoxy. Kerris, a Scottish researcher, arrives at a remote British Overseas Territory, ostensibly to study oxygen levels in coral. As she gradually befriends one of the locals, things start to unravel. Who is the Prophet? What does he want? Why has she really come to the island?
BearGirl
★★★★☆ Star Quality
A woman in a bear suit. She’s not wearing if for you, it’s not comfortable and she doesn’t like it. Rachel De Fontes’s titular BearGirl deals with the oddness of the situation in short order from the start of this significant and engaging piece of new writing by Emery Schaffer at the Boxy Roxy.
Where Are All the Tall Grandmas?
★★★★★ A Perfect Hour
This is peak Fringe. None of it should work. But such is the geeky charm and dogged curiosity of Lou Wall that their audience is happy to follow them on the oddest of sociological investigations.
More Tales from your Queer Elder
★★★★☆ A quiet, insistent triumph
There is a pernicious myth that dancers have short careers. Lucia August comprehensively dismantles that lie in More Tales from your Queer Elder at Greenside @ George Street.
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Immersive Excellence
The noise coming out of London currently would have us believe that Trainspotting has run its course, with the cancellation of the new musical based on Irvine Welsh’s original novel.
You Straights Are F**ked Up!
★★★☆☆ Unfiltered Wisdom
Even a global, straight-friendly performer needs an introduction. Who better to do the job than an overbearing drag nun?
Spamalot
★★★★☆ Joyous
The moment Josh Wood’s 17-strong band strikes up, it is obvious that Happy Sad Productions are not here to mess around. To play, certainly, but Spamalot at Portobello Town Hall is a show with polish, intent and purpose.
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