Heather Marshall

The Happiness Project
★★★★★ Queering the scene:
The first thing that strikes about The Happiness Project is the colours. Shocking pink and neon yellow on a plain background and plastic-grass floor.

___Is Where The Heart Is
★★★☆☆ Plenty to say:
Ideas of identity and displacement lie at the centre of ___ Is Where the Heart Is, Birds of Paradise and Creative Electric’s new co-production which began its Scottish tour with two performances at North Edinburgh Arts.

Desperation Bingo
★★★☆☆ Not quite clickety-clicking:
There’s silliness with a social conscience at Creative Electric’s bingo-based show, Desperation Bingo, at the Biscuit Factory.

Hothouse shows 2015
Grassroots companies in Trav Showcase:
Four of Edinburgh’s newer and innovative grassroots companies are staging works as part of this year’s Hothouse season at the Traverse this week – Tue 10 – Fri 13 November 2015.

Is £5 ART?
Or is it flyposting?:
Creative Electric creativity got too electric when the youth theatre company got stopped by the police this week for trying to give away money in the Grassmarket as part of its new ART? initiative.

It’s A Treat
New guerilla arts project from Creative Electric:
Young theatre company Creative Electric is launching a new guerilla arts project this Sunday, with pop-up performances of experimental show Treat.

Briefs: The Second Coming
✭✭✭✭✩ Fabulously Fierce:
Drag artistes, award winning Vegas boylesque and edgy humour are whipped together in Edinburgh’s Christmas Spegieltent by the beautiful Briefs boys in their first visit to the city outside of the fringe.

Cystic Fibrosis play seeks funds
Crowd-source funding for Cystic Fibrosis play
Edinburgh-based theatre company Creative Electric has until the end of Monday October 6 to fund its latest work, Hey, I’m Alive! an interactive piece exploring the reality of living with Cystic Fibrosis.

Creative Electric to Stockholm fringe
Auditory Hallucinations, the immersive, interactive play about memory and childhood from Edinburgh company Creative Electric, is looking to crowd-source finance for travel to take up the opportunity of appearing at the Stockholm Fringe Festival (Stoff).

Review – Auditory Hallucinations
Is it play or a play? Actually it is both, and as such is a fascinating, exuberant and thought-provoking piece of immersive theatre. Creative Elective live up to their name with chort immersive piece: Auditory Hallucinations.