Writings

Myths and Matriarchs

August 26th, 2024 by

Fay Jurriaanse explores three different shows seen during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, all centred around female voices telling mythical stories : Gruoch: Lady Macbeth at Hill Street Theatre; Do Not Look Away: The Story of Medusa at the Scottish Storytelling Centre; and Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine at Greenside When I think of Edinburgh, I […]

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L’Addition: It All Adds Up

August 26th, 2024 by

The acclaimed contemporary performance duo Bert and Nasi return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new show, L’Addition, directed by Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment. John Dean was there for Total Theatre Magazine L’Addition is a masterclass in how to create rich, provocative meaning from a simple, playful premise. It begins with the two […]

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BATSHIT

August 23rd, 2024 by

She’s off her trolley. Nuttier than a fruitcake. A couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock. She’s ‘crazy’.  For years women have been locked up, medicated, pathologized and silenced with the label ‘crazy’. Challenging these preconceptions, acclaimed Australian performer Leah Shelton makes her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with her solo show BATSHIT, directed by […]

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Please Right Back

August 18th, 2024 by

‘Part social realism, part science fiction, with a healthy dose of dystopia’ – 1927’s new show Please Right Back is not quite what it first seems to be, as Dorothy Max Prior discovers at the Edinburgh International Festival 2024 We enter the auditorium to see a whole-stage projection across three screens, monochrome op-art style graphics, […]

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One Venue, Three Days. One Girl, Three As

August 17th, 2024 by

Rosie Denner makes the pilgrimage to Edinburgh to see three shows presented at theSpaceUK venues as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 With the gut punches of Apricot, the twisty turns of An Act of Grace, and the true and bitter reality of Addict, this writer’s trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was well […]

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