Summerhall
Faslane
✭✭✭✭✩ Therapeutic:
Jenna Watt’s affecting exploration of Trident in Faslane may never go nuclear, but her sympathetic approach to a complex issue restores some much-needed humanity to an increasingly polarised body politic.
4D Cinema
★★☆☆☆ Lacks punchline:
Mamoru Iriguchi’s creation 4D Cinema uses potentially genius technological techniques, but wastes it on 50 minutes of un-witty surrealism.
Mairi Campbell: Pulse
✭✭✭✭✩ Compelling
Engaging, creative and deeply felt, Mairi Campbell: Pulse at Summerhall’s Old Lab is an involving and satisfying show.
Waves
★★★☆☆ Refreshing
A cheerful directness and generosity of spirit permeate Waves at the Old Lab in Summerhall. However, there is an underdeveloped feel at times that threatens to detract from its fresh and infectious atmosphere.
Shameless plug…
Æ Takes to the stage in BLANK
All Edinburgh Theatre is delighted to announce that editor Thom Dibdin will be putting his mouth where his pen normally goes and appearing in a show during the fringe.
Uncanny Valley
★★★★☆ Shiny new:
Direct and clear, Rob Drummond gets right among all the big questions in this interactive production which is part of the International Science Festival.
To Breathe
★★★☆☆ Explorative:
There’s something unnerving about Theatre Paradok’s To Breathe, at Summerhall until Saturday. Its a feeling which begins pre-show and pervades right through the Edinburgh University company’s hour-long production.
Summerhall wins award
Empty Space award for Edinburgh venue:
Sumerhall has won the Dan Crawford Innovation Award at this year’s Empty Space… Peter Brook Awards.
Gregory youth auditions
Young cast needed for immersive performance:
Edinburgh-based young company Strange Town is putting together a one-off company to help stage an immersive performance of the cult film Gregory’s Girl at Summerhall in January.
The Moonlit Road
★★★☆☆ Ghoulish:
Suitably disturbing in its content and pleasingly rounded in its construction, Peapod Productions’ The Moonlit Road and other ghostly tales still has uneven patches in its presentation.
