Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller
In Everglade Studio
★★★★☆ Sweltering
In Everglade Studio is a tuneful, tense and entertaining production from Black Bat Productions in The Box at Assembly George Square.
Press
★★★★☆ Sharply funny
Press in the Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance Courtyard is Black Bat Productions’ second production of this Fringe, and its second unqualified hit.
Fear of Roses
★★★★☆ Stylish
Fear of Roses, by Black Bat Productions at Assembly Roxy, is a crisp, intelligent and thoroughly rewarding three-hander.
Chagos 1971
★★★☆☆ Dark machinations:
Chagos 1971, writer-director Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller’s new work for Black Bat Productions at Zoo Playground, deals with important events in a way that is uneven but has a great deal going for it.
White
★★★★☆ Layered:
Comic, brutal and certainly confrontational, the UK premiere of James Ijames’ White at St Cecelia’s Hall delivers a well-judged prod at the often unguarded underbelly of white liberal self-satisfaction.
Disruptive elements
Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller on finding and staging Ijames’ White:
This weekend the EUTC is leaving its Bedlam home for a short break at St Cecelia’s Hall where it is presenting the UK premiere of James IJames’ “truly disruptive” play, White.
Open Call for White
EUTC to stage UK premiere of James Ijames’ comedy:
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company has put out an open call for its UK premiere of James Ijames’ White, a comedy about race, gender and the place of art in an absurdly divided society.
Technicolor
★★★★☆ Extra-terrestrially cool:
Black Bat’s Technicolor is a freewheeling exercise in both nostalgia and modernity that is highly recommended.
Black Bat Call Out
Auditions for EdFringe 2018 show:
Black Bat Productions has put out a late open call for auditions for its EdFringe 2018 production, Technicolor following the success of last year’s EdFringe show, Mack the Knife which played to capacity audiences.
Romeo and Juliet
★★★☆☆ Full blooded:
There is plenty to like about the Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s full-blooded, modern dress production of Romeo and Juliet at the Pleasance Theatre, to Saturday.
