Ruaraidh Murray
4Play 2024: One
Fuckers: ★★★★☆ Scabrous
Colours Run: ★★★☆☆ Promising
Edinburgh-based new writing showcase 4Play returns to the Traverse this week. This time round, the plays are described as full-length developed pieces, although there is still an air of the unfinished at times.
The Bookies
★★★☆☆ Spread bet
The Bookies spins the story of a betting shop on Leith Walk, its employees and a slot machine-addicted customer in this black comedy playing at Summerhall for the duration of the fringe.
4Play
★★★☆☆ Comedy capers
Comedy is definitely a priority as the four members of Edinburgh playwright collective 4Play bring four pieces of new work to the Traverse stage, much to the delight of a capacity first night audience.
Junkies cancelled
Illness forces Andy Gray to quit play:
Andy Gray, panto funnyman and star of Scottish stage and screen, has had to withdraw from fringe show The Junkies for medical reasons.
Financial Market Rebel
Insider reveals all at Trav:
The world premiere of a new play by David Crook, a one-time market hedge fund manager, is opening at the Traverse this week for a strictly limited three night run.
The Club
✭✭✭✭✩ Comic bravado:
The Club, the latest play from Edinburgh-born actor and writer Ruaraidh Murray, has a fiercely humorous energy and drive.
Allie
✭✭✩✩✩ Nostalgic radge:
Ruaraidh Murray’s Allie at the Gilded Balloon Billiard Room is spirited and energetic but ultimately somewhat empty.
Boxman
✭✭✭✭✩ One-man wonder
Many plays tread a fine line between comedy and pathos. Such delicacy is not for Boxman in the Gilded Balloon Turret. Rather, it unheedingly hurls itself across that line with extremely successful results.
Review – Bath Time
✭✭✭✩✩ Radge recollections:
Sex, drugs and hands-in-the-air euphoric tunes are bangin’ away at the heart of Ruaraidh Murray’s cannily personalising tale of nineties Edinburgh gangland life.
