Fergus Dunnet
Auntie Empire
★★★☆☆ Splenetic
Auntie Empire, at Summerhall for two nights as part of Manipulate, is a thoroughly dark piece of satirical clowning. It is deliberately messy and unfocused, but perhaps that lack of focus is ultimately a disadvantage.
Size Matters
★★★☆☆ Whimsical
Size Matters, at the Traverse as part of the Manipulate festival, is an inventive if uneven production.
Snowy
★★★☆☆ Puppy fun
Loveable pup Snowy tumbles into the Studio Theatre until the end of December in a delightful production aimed at children under seven.
Hercules the Bear
★★★☆☆ Gentle giant
Tenterhooks’ Hercules the Bear is an entertaining piece of physical theatre based on the extraordinary and true story of a bear and his human “parents” who lived with him in Sheriffmuir in the 1980s.
Pickled Republic
★★★★★ Unique
In Pickled Republic, Ruxy Cantir has drawn on her Moldovan upbringing, where almost every vegetable can be pickled, and combined it with her exposure to American education and culture to create a totally unique, absurdist play that can be enjoyed on many different levels.
Grid Iron New Show
Doppler announced for August dates:
Edinburgh-based site-specific specialist theatre company Grid Iron has announced provisional dates for its new production of Doppler, from as early as Monday 24 August, if lockdown eases as expected.
Strange Tales
★★★☆☆ Cultural collision:
There are certainly moments of magic in Strange Tales, the Christmas co-production between Grid Iron and the Traverse, but they are too few and far between.
Uncanny Valley
★★★★☆ Shiny new:
Direct and clear, Rob Drummond gets right among all the big questions in this interactive production which is part of the International Science Festival.
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