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Watson and Oliver
By R.J. Thomson, published 10 August 2007Sketch shows add a theatrical dimension to comedy, and Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver successfully pull off this particular comedic genre with a fast-...WAZ
By Dave Kerr, published 18 August 2007“Would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death?” poses WAZ, lurching in with the darkest of quandaries and pushing altruisti...We Are Together
By Amy Cook, published 23 August 2007This documentary follows the lives of the children in the Agape orphanage in South Africa, who, under “Grandma” Zodwa Mqadi’s guidan...What If
By Gareth K. Vile, published 18 August 2007The absence of a ‘script-writer’ in the programme suggests that either no-one wished to take responsibility for the weakest part of this p...Wil Hodgson - Straight Outta Chippenham
By Nick Eardley, published 19 August 2007 With his Doc Martin boots and perfect Mohican, Will Hodgson is the leopard skin punk of postcard infamy; a stalwart figure of the provincial town wh...William Kentridge @ Edinburgh Printmakers
By Gabriella Griffeth, published 03 August 2007The ability to multitask is often strived for and, with a little concentration, it is occasionally achieved. William Kentridge, the current exhibition...Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath
By Joe Vester, published 21 August 2007Ethel is an unhappy woman: you can tell because she's got her head in the oven. But then the oven starts speaking to her, through a series of whoo...Woody Sez
By Joe Vester, published 13 August 2007If you don't like country music, you won't like Woody Sez. From the opening, "Come on down to the front folks, we don't have no micro...Working Girls
By Chris McCall, published 22 August 2007Working Girls is supposedly a tale of three rich young princesses being sent out into the world of work, and away from the dependency of Daddy's c...World's End by Paul Sellar
By Tom Hackett, published 21 August 2007This is one of those perfectly competent pieces of Fringe theatre that modestly succeeds on its own terms, but leaves you with a distinct feeling of &...Wunderkind
By Tom Hackett, published 07 August 2007This excellent one-man play, scripted and directed by Darren Thornton, follows the story of Sean, a promising Irish film director and his fall from gr...XXY
By Natalia Baal, published 18 August 2007Many people refer to paedophilia as the last taboo, and to paedophiles as the unmentionable, untouchable outcasts of society; but XXY shows it is not ...Yamato Chanbara
By Junta Sekimori, published 10 August 2007 The bellowing boom of taiko drums excites the air. A band of warriors flock to the scene, weapons at the ready. An old, contemplative man - no dou...Year Of The Dog
By Iain Burnside, published 19 August 2007This is a gentle, charming and touching film about human need; the need not only to feel love, but to express it even when inevitable imperfections pe...Yella
By Leo Robson, published 17 August 2007In Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, the detective Arbogast is visited by split-second images of a sheep and a dour-looking woman as he falls to hi...Yellow Moon
By Junta Sekimori, published 05 August 2007My reasonably trustworthy sense of reality tells me that Yellow Moon was a production that took place in a small, intimate space comprising four actor...Yesterday, When I Was Young
By Nine, published 16 August 2007 Coming of age in the days when the word ‘lesbian’ wasn’t even known and getting married was simply what you did, Josie Pickering l...Young and the Damned @ C Central
By Jamie Borthwick, published 09 August 2007It’s funny how little you get for your entry fee these days. A sizeable crowd squeezed into the limited seating at The Carlton Cabaret bar tonig...
