Flavia D’Avila
Placeholder
★★★★☆ Powerful evocation
Set one year before the Haitian revolution of 1791, Placeholder at the EAS Studios @ Summerhall, powerfully evokes women’s lost voices in a piece that honours the lives of those who were stolen.
Flora Macdonald and Zombies
★★★★☆ Thrilling
Flora Macdonald and Zombies at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for the odd days of the first fortnight of the Fringe, is a courageous (and hilarious) tale of zombie slaying.
A second night of Horror
The Devil in the Belfry: ★★★★☆ Turbo charged
Tarmac Lullaby: ★★★☆☆ Twisted
A second night at the Edinburgh Horror Festival reveals more supernatural goings on, this time in the Cinema Room with the new Tarmac Lullaby from Crested Fools and a returning piece The Devil in the Belfry from Brassica Theatre.
The Rotting Hart
★★★★☆ Accomplished
Writer and performer Daniel Orejon’s solo show, The Rotting Hart at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, is a timeless, queer horror story set in rural Spain, where the unnamed protagonist lives alone with his father.
Green Knight
★★★★☆ Sensual
Debbie Cannon gives an intimate and transgressive telling of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the upper rooms of the Scottish Storytelling Centre until Sunday 14 August.
EAS Goes Live
Adaptation of Lysistrata to get two hybrid perfs
Edinburgh Acting School is planning to stage two live hybrid performances, both in-person and streamed online, of Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.
Heaven Burns the Roxy
McGregor wins 2018 Assembly Roxy Theatre Award:
Edinburgh-based playwright Jen McGregor has won this year’s Assembly Roxy Theatre Award for her script Heaven Burns, which will now be staged at the Roxy during this year’s Edinburgh fringe.
Green Knight
★★★★☆ Brave:
Debbie Cannon is making a serious gamble with Green Knight, playing the Royal Scots Club three nights a week for the three weeks of the fringe.
La Nina Barro
✭✭✭✩✩ A feminine awakening
What does it mean to be a woman? And how do women form their ideas of self awareness? Edinburgh-based Fronteiras Theatre Lab explores these notions in an original, physical, transcultural performance at the Free Fringe Festival.
Nudity censored at EdFringe
Actress Elizabeth Sogorb is being forced to wear a flesh-coloured catsuit in her performance of La Nina Barro at the fringe because venue The Newsroom has objected to the nakedness which is an integral part of the show.
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