Reviews

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» Victims of Duty

***Reviews, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: Eugene Ionesco's Victims of Duty is one of the more light-hearted works in the French playwright's distinguished theatrical repertoire. A thoroughly post-modern deconstruction of dramatic form and ...

» HappyLand

**Reviews, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Lucy Jackson: The only way this show could be saved is if the writers, midway through, had decided in a moment of pure artistic genius to metamorphose it into a kind of Orwellian nightmare. Smiley 412, however, ...

» Sir Barrington Ganch: My Life Is Art

****Reviews, Comedy, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Ben Judge: The funniest thing about Sir Barrington Ganch: My Life is Art is the promtional poster. As far as advertisements go, however it is not an accurate one as the production itself offers few laughs. M...

» Eco-Friendly Jihad

***Reviews, Comedy, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Ben Judge: Looking every inch the former student politician, Adie Philbin Bowman—the creator of Jesus: The Guantanamo years—returns to Edinburgh this year with an hour long lecture-come-stand-up a...

» JL Roberts and Nadia Kamil Present: Wisecrackin' Mindsqueezin' Behemoth

****Reviews, Comedy 20 Aug 2008

Ciaran Healy: As a double act Roberts and Kamil are slick and engaging. They combine zany but fiercely intelligent material with endearing stage personas in a potent comedy cocktail. Kamil and Roberts share a ...

» The Space Between My Head And My Body

***Reviews, Theatre 20 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: While not quite site-specific theatre, the clammy confines of the Baby Belly venue maintains the bland claustrophobia of air travel effectively. The characters navigate baggage used as improvised s...

» Footsbarn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

***Reviews, Theatre 20 Aug 2008

Lucy Jackson: The clue is in the title: this production of The Dream may be Footsbarn’s, but it’s not Shakespeare’s. The show will divide those who would happily listen to Shakespeare’s c...

» 'Crave' by Sarah Kane

***Reviews, Theatre 19 Aug 2008

Anna Polanyi: Cackling and grinning manically, four actors crawl across the room and onto the stage to a distorted recording of “Over the Rainbow.” And so Crave begins. Sarah Kane is like Sylvia Plat...

» The Dancing Screen

****Reviews, Music 19 Aug 2008

Hamish Ferguson: With the Film Festival pushed forward to June, Edinburgh's best known cinema seems to have suffered a kind of identity crisis this August. The Cameo's iconic Screen One is playing host to live band...

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» Mortal Engine

****Reviews, Theatre, International 19 Aug 2008

Anna Polanyi: The concept of a “light & sound show” is given a whole new dimension. Techies, the quiet types in the shadows, hold this show firmly in their grasp, along with five computers, an o...

» Like a Virgin

***Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Ella Hickson: Gordon Steel’s heart-warming romp through teenage-hood provides a blissfully nostalgic theatrical experience. Angela and Maxine, donning leggings and hauntingly familiar Madonna t-shirts, bou...

» Tea and Cake II: In The Gateau

**Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: Talk about kicking someone when they're down. If there were any more cheap shots directed at mime artists in this show it'd be almost worth the ticket price which, incidentally, is more than anyone...

» Strange Bedfellows

*Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: Have you ever wondered what it would be like if George Washington had been a sexual plaything of George III? Or if Marilyn Monroe had furtively courted Lee Harvey Oswald just hours prior to the JFK...

» Apes Like Me

**Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Tom Crookston: Half way through Kate Smurthwaite’s Apes Like Me we reach what ought to be an absolutely earth-shaking moment. It speaks volumes about the show that, in the moments following her announcement...

» Clarkson & Crouch: Away with the Fairies

****Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Chris McCall: Clarkson & Crouch, despite their show titles, are certainly not away with the fairies. They might have vivid imaginations, and appear to be a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic, but their c...

» Mort

**Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Anna Polanyi: Death—with a shining scythe, blue lights for eyes and a disembodied voice—is a likeable character, living as he is through a mid-life crisis: he quits his job (that of “ushering s...

» Plague! The Musical

**Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Frank Lazarski: Musical theatre is not something which commands universal appreciation. Its formats are well documented, its cliches much parodied. The Musical Comedy genre is one which often subverts the standard...

» Britt Eckland: Britt on Britt

**Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Liz Rawlings: It’s very annoying when a fellow audience member keeps talking throughout a performance. It’s bad Fringe etiquette and, frankly, it's just rude. Well this is what the man next to me wa...

» The Return of the Scottish Falcetto Sock Puppet Theatre

****Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Jasper Jackson: Watching a man's hand inside a sock pretend to play a guitar which he calls "Vicky the technician" is quite surreal. That he is singing a song called 'I'm a Sock' with his "co-star"—another h...

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» Steve Hall: Vice-Captain Loser

****Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Tom Crookston: Poor Steve Hall. For a start, this show takes its title from a nickname given to him as a child by his own father, “because I wasn’t even the biggest loser around, only the second bigge...

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