Niroshini Thambar
The Brenda Line
★★★★☆ Warm
The Brenda Line by Harry Mould, from the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and playing in Traverse 2 for four performances only, is a clever, moving and beautifully pitched production.
Disciples
★★★★☆ Powerful
Disciples from Stellar Quines and the Traverse is an arresting piece of drama and movement, playing at the Traverse until Saturday and transferring to Newcastle ‘s Northern Stage in November.
PPP: Jinnistan
★★★★☆ Frightening
Jinnistan by Taqi Nazeer is the last in the current season at the Traverse of Oran Mor’s Play, Pie and a Pint. In many ways, they have saved the best till last.
Home is Not the Place
★★★☆☆ Enlightening
Annie George’s powerful solo show Home is Not the Place, at Summerhall TechCube 0 on odd days of the Fringe, follows her attempts to discover her identity through her ancestors.
The Bush
★★★★☆ Inviting
The Bush, Alice Mary Cooper’s one-hander at Summerhall, tells of domestic and political life in 1970s Australia, detailing the accidental birth of the environmental movement in a way that is diverting and informative.
The Scent of Roses
★★★☆☆ Lacks urgency
The Scent of Roses, from writer-director Zinnie Harris at the Lyceum, features a top-notch cast and dialogue that often rings true regarding how self-delusion and self-evasion wreck our relationships with each other and the world around us. However, the production as a whole never truly ignites
Hindu Times
★★★☆☆ Fierce Originality:
Hindu Times – the latest audio offering from the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Sound Stage – is a wildly original piece. Although cumbersome at times, it has a raucous energy that is frequently arresting.
Fragments Of Home
★★★★☆ Resonant:
Mixing history and the present to great effect, Fragments of Home revisits earlier work by Annie George extremely successfully.
Twa
★★★★☆ Vital questions:
Twa, the collaboration between writer Annie George and visual artist Flore Gardner at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, is a lucid and involving production. At times stark and disturbing, it is nevertheless a depiction of hope that has an ultimately transcendent quality.
Moon shine down
Jabuti tour bilingual Marie-Louise Gay adaptation:
Edinburgh-based children’s theatre company Jabuti Theatre has adapted the dreamlike children’s picture book Moonbeam on a Cat’s Ear for bilingual Gaelic and English performances.
