Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015

Penny Arcade - Longing Lasts Longer - Photo by Dina Regine

Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer

August 18th, 2015 by

Penny Arcade (Susana Ventura) is a queer performance art legend and an endlessly fascinating performer.  Having left small-town America for adventures in New York City, she self identifies in her first few breaths as the Evil Queen, an antidote to Snow White’s dull conformity, and defies easy definition. Sliding easily between cabaret, poetry, and performance […]

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Poker Night Blues - Photo by Wang Yuchen

Theatre Movement Bazaar/Beijing TinHouse Productions: Poker Night Blues

August 17th, 2015 by

How perfectly the heart works, when it works… Poker Night Blues is a collaboration between  the US-based theatre company Theatre Movement Bazaar and Chinese-based Beijing TinHouse Productions. Together, they take an iconic American dramatic text, A Streetcar Named Desire, and deliver it to us with an ensemble of Chinese actor-dancers (although some are possibly Chinese-American) […]

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Open Clasp - Key Change

Open Clasp: Key Change

August 17th, 2015 by

This deeply affecting ensemble production made me think about female prisoners in a significantly different light. After learning the characters’ stories, based as they are on real testimonies, I understood that the women’s eventual incarceration was as inevitable as it was beyond their control. Yet these women are very clearly presented not as victims but […]

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Jethro Compton - Sirenia

Jethro Compton: Sirenia

August 17th, 2015 by

At the very top of C Nova, up flights of increasingly dusty and ancient-looking stairs, is the tiny atmospheric room used for Sirenia, a piece designed for a maximum of sixteen audience members. Unlike Jethro Compton’s Bunker Trilogy, where the attic staging in C venues initially demanded some suspension of disbelief, here the set-up immerses […]

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Kaboodle Theatre - Writing

Kaboodle Theatre: Writing

August 17th, 2015 by

This tender and intimate production is devised by Olive Merrill and Emma Clarke and explores the world of a five year old child who is learning to write. My interest was piqued by the piece’s concept, inspired as it was by ‘company members’ background in education and experience of working with children who have incredible […]

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