EdFringe 14
Lace Up
✭✭✭✭✩ Drama with punch
Expect blood, sweat and tears in this searing drama looking at the price a young boxer from Edinburgh is asked to pay on his way to the top.
Paras over the Barras
✭✭✩✩✩ Sketchy comedy
Delivering the toe-curling one-liners with a relatively straight face, Leitheatre’s reprise of Paras over the Barras is sketch show comedy shot through with nostalgia for the WW2 spirit.
The Bridge
✭✭✭✩✩ Thought provoking
A poised and careful meditation on history, family, myth and literature, The Bridge at St John’s is a finely wrought piece.
Men in the Cities
✭✭✭✭✩ Raw passion
Chris Goode is angry and with good reason. In his tautly written and beautifully executed monologue at the Traverse, he examines contemporary masculinity with a searing, raw passion that wears its hurt on its sleeve.
Relatively Speaking
✭✭✭✩✩ Relatively successful
Slick, humorous and effective, the Edinburgh Makars’ production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking can be counted as a success even if it never quite manages to locate the darker streak that characterises his work.
ViewMaster
✭✭✭✭✩ A jewel
ViewMaster at Summerhall is a gem of a show that has the ability to cleanse the most jaded of palates.
Return to the Voice
✭✭✭✭✩ Another world
Tuneful, dramatic, and frankly baffling, Return To The Voice is a memorable musical experience.
Lear’s Daughters
✭✭✭✭✩ Transfixing tragedy
Footfall Theatre Company take Shakespeare’s Lear down into the basement of C Nova and there reveal a new aspect to his story.
Conflict in Court
✭✭✭✭✩ interactive trial
The upstairs space in the New Town theatre is decked out as a small courtroom where Tory MP Marcus Baillie seeks damages from a red-top tabloid in Liam Rudden latest interactive drama.
The Onion of Bigotry – A History of Hatred
✭✭✩✩✩ Not many layers
Too keen to avoid offence, Black Dingo Productions’ The Onion of Bigotry ends up having little impact.
