Ghost Quartet, presented in the Roundabout tent, to the rear of the Summerhall venue,  is billed as ‘a haunted song cycle… a raucous chamber musical’. It is a song cycle about ‘love, death, and whiskey… four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.’ The impressive quartet of the title comprises two men and two women, […]

Catch em if you can! All the way from Quebec – although in this case, Quebec City rather than Montreal – come Flip Fabrique, with a feel-good street-wise circus show that gets down with the kids. There’s a bunch of friends reunited,  there’s beat-boxing, there’s trampolining, there’s big red bouncy balls, there’s chalking on walls., […]

Four chairs, four performers – two male, two female. A rope, a tying-up game – which turns into a powerful corde lisse routine by Lauren Hurley (who was first seen seen and admired by Total Theatre in previous show What Will Have Been). The frenetic soundtrack breaks into a cheesy Cha Cha and all four […]

Ada and Ava are twin sisters. We first meet them in their home as elderly ladies, taking tea as the clock tick-tocks. But are they both really here? Where does one self end and another begin? It transpires that Ava is dead and Ada is holding tight to her memory. The mourning is a painful […]

So it seems it is a solo, but soon you realise that it is a duet. While she conjures up many different environments on the stage (a shelter, a hole, a sand desert, a burnt forest), he makes music and sound with his hands, mouth, tongue and even with his feet. The sound of dried […]