EdFringe 15
Daniel Sinclair
✭✭✭✭✩ All in the Mind:
When two people meet on a park bench in this late-night, free fringe production, it is apparent from the blood and bruises on the young man that something is awry.
Gagarin Way
✭✭✭✭✩ Electric energy:
There is real promise – and much that is already very good – in New Celts and Mindframe’s Gagarin Way at theSpace on the Mile.
Hemmed In
✭✭✩✩✩ Too limited:
There are some highly promising singers in New Celts and Lost Lock’s all-female musical Hemmed In, who are given real chances to shine in a production that is otherwise hampered by callowness and naïveté.
Noises Off
✭✭✭✭✩ Not just technically funny:
Impressive on many levels, Edinburgh Theatre Arts’ production of Noises Off produces more than its fair share of laughs.
Double Bill
“✭✭✭✭✩ Character-driven”
Young critics scheme review:
Theatre Alba present a double bill at Duddingston Kirk Manse of Chekhov’s Smoking is Bad for You and Tennessee Williams’ Something Unspoken.
Trainspotting
✭✭✭✭✭ Obtrusive Masterpiece
Young critics scheme review:
Visceral images, bombarding music and the classically sorrowful plot, In Your Face Theatre immerses you in Irvine Welsh’s drug-fuelled Trainspotting.
Women of the Mourning Fields
★★★★☆ Ambitious history:
History is told by the writers, not the participants. That’s the message at the heart of this fascinating piece from Aulos Productions in which the forgotten women of Rome finally have their say.
The Ghost of Sadie Kimber
✭✭✭✩✩ Haunting family drama:
A little girl just won’t settle down in this haunting family drama from new Edinburgh company Making Light Productions, at Spotlites until Saturday 22 August.
A Life With The Beatles
✭✭✭✩✩ Cleverly angled retelling:
Engaging and informative, A Life With The Beatles tells a familiar story in an unusual way.
The Deliverance
✭✭✭✭✩ Fertile soil:
Involving, dark, human poetry is in great supply in The Deliverance at Assembly Roxy. Stellar Quines’ presentation of the third part of the story that began with The List is a success in its own right, as well as a worthy successor to what has gone before.
