EdFringe 2013
Review – Fault Lines
Three highly capable actresses are required for Rebecca Louise Miller’s Fault Lines, and this trio of acting graduates from Edinburgh’s Napier and QMU deliver with Honours.
Review – Kiss Me Honey, Honey!
★★★☆☆ Assured comic performances
Mainstays of the annual King’s pantomime Andy Gray and Grant Stott are reunited at the Gilded Balloon Teviot in Kiss Me Honey, Honey!, a new two-hander written by Philip Meeks.
Review — I’m With The Band
The national stereotyping is not the subtlest in Tim Price’s allegorical examination of the question of Scottish independence.
Review – David Copperfield
Edinburgh Theatre Arts’ staging of David Copperfield at St Ninian’s Hall is an astonishingly ambitious undertaking – from a company who rise to the challenge with spirit and skill.
Review – Singing’ I’m No A Billy, He’s a Tim
A Celtic fan and a Rangers fan are forced to examine their differences after being banged up together in the same police cell on the day of the Glasgow old-firm derby in Des Dillon’s hugely successful comedy, revived here by Black Dingo Productions.
Review – Hatches, Matches and Dispatches
✭✭✭✩✩ Convincing comic revival:
Edinburgh People’s Theatre are celebrating an astonishing 56th year on the Fringe with this revival of Alan Cochrane’s Hatches, Matches and Dispatches, a Fringe First winner in 1998.
Review – Godspell
✭✭✭✭✩ Casts a spell:
Godspell may be a Fringe stalwart but FCT’s production at Inverleith Church Hall is particularly noteworthy. And not just because it is the the first British appearance of the new vocal and musical arrangemements from the 2012 Broadway revival.
Review – The Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs Revisited
Is this a play or a TED Talk re-enacted? It is a compliment both to the quality of the writing by American monologist Mike Daisey and to the performance by Scottish actor Grant O’Rourke that it is so easy to forget that it is the former.
Ravenhill for Starters
For the first time ever, the Edinburgh Fringe had a welcoming address for participants. It was given on Friday the 2nd of August at Fringe Central by Mark Ravenhill.
