Julia Amour
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.
Everest Mallory 24 (With Stanley)
★★☆☆☆ Rushed
Everest Mallory 24 (With Stanley) – Andy Dickinson’s one-man show at Paradise in the Vaults from 2-23 August – mixes the droll storytelling tradition of Michael Palin’s Ripping Yarns with an Everyman take on the heroism and recklessness behind the failed expedition.
Happy Ending Street
★★★☆☆ Gallus
Happy Ending Street, from new Scottish theatre company DollsnRags, bursts vividly into life at Leith Arches like a cross between gothic crime drama and teen comedy.
Sandbox: Saining
★★★☆☆ Tender
Sandbox: Saining is an immersive video environment by Kerry Mullaney and Kris Bird that takes a tender look at what the bonds of love might mean to AI, posing cultural and ethical questions for viewers.
Jumper Bumps
★★★☆☆ Empowering
Massive relationship issues are handled with a confident comic touch in Jumper Bumps, an empowering debut play by women, for women, at Gilded Balloon’s Appleton Tower all Fringe.
Deiseil: Dancing in Time
★★★★★ Rare grooves
Deiseil: Dancing in Time from Deiseil Airson Dannsa is a spine-tingling story of how stepdance, Scotland’s percussive dance, was lost across the Atlantic – and found again.
The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness
★★★★☆ Finely drawn
The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness, from Moon Rabbit Theatre at theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, is a funny and affecting portrait of an everywoman trying to make her way as a nurse through the turmoil of World War II, and still retain her sense of self.
Ringing out the Changes
★★★★☆ Mindful
Ringing out the Changes at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral – a mindful meditation of story and sound about how bells have marked personal, national and global histories – reverberates with meaning.
What Ever Happened to Harmony Banks?
★★★★☆ Pitch-perfect
Dance theatre can be a powerful ‘show not tell’ medium for exploring states of mind, and Whatever Happened to Harmony Banks at Dance Base until Sunday 10 August does just that in a pitch-perfect portrait of the toxicity of celebrity culture.
The Virtuous Burglar
★★★☆☆ Uproarious
A nod to British 1970s classics is a smart touch adding comic familiarity to Italian farce The Virtuous Burglar, which appears at the Royal Scots Club until 9 August.
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