Tim Barrow
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Sweet FA
★★★★★ Sparkling
Sweet FA, This Is My Story’s tuneful evocation of women’s football during World War I, is back for a rematch at Tynecastle Park. It remains an inspiring and beautifully performed piece, which seems even more impressive and important at a second viewing.
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A War of Two Halves
★★★★★ Resonant
This Is My Story Productions’ storied A War of Two Halves remains essential viewing.
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Sweet FA script published
War Of Two Halves to follow
Sweet FA, the tale of a women’s football team in Edinburgh during the First World War, was a resounding hit at last year’s Fringe and has now been published in book form.
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Sweet F.A.
★★★★☆ Triumphant
History, emotion and righteous anger combine tunefully and humorously in Sweet F.A., This Is My Story Productions’ thoroughly welcome return to Tynecastle Park.
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A War of Two Halves
★★★★★ Welcome replay:
A War of Two Halves, whose devastating emotion and clever staging impressed in 2018, is back again and it is every bit as powerful.
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Tynecastle play returns
A War of Two Halves to get further performances:
Site-specific play A War of Two Halves, based on the WW1 story of McCrae’s Battalion, is to get a further performances this November following its a hugely successful run during this year’s EdFringe.
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A War of Two Halves
★★★★★ Devastating emotion:
The sincerity, emotional directness and beautiful staging of A War of Two Halves deserves to transcend sporting allegiances. This Is My Story and Nonsense Room’s site-specific performance does what great theatre should, making a specific time and place seem immediate and accessible.
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Tynecastle drama
McCrae’s Battalion play for Hearts’ ground:
Tynecastle Park is to become home to off the pitch drama during this year’s fringe with a new play about McRae’s Battalion playing out in an an immersive production around the stands.
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VPT goes full-length
Village Pub Theatre to stage full-length immersive production:
Leith’s Village Pub Theatre, the playwright collective specialising in script-in-hand performances of new work, is to stage a full length production The Sunnyside Centre, at the Hibs Supporters Club.
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Union – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ In rude health
Bawdy, hugely ambitious and almost wilfully uneven, the Lyceum’s world premiere of Union should be applauded for its intentions even if the results are not wholly successful.