Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015

Portmanteau - Boxed In

Portmanteau: Boxed In

August 11th, 2015 by

Boxed In explores many of the issues that I am most passionate about; gender roles and the associated stereotyping of expected behaviours, society’s urge to ‘box in’ and label the sexes, and specifically its arguably deeply-established roots in childhood and parental attitudes. Further, as an FE drama lecturer, I have noticed how this has become […]

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Tim Crouch - An Oak Tree - Photo by Greg Goodale

Tim Crouch: An Oak Tree

August 11th, 2015 by

Every so often, a play comes along that changes the way that I think about theatre, and to me, that is one of the most exciting experiences of all. Having read but not seen Tim Crouch’s previous work, I came to An Oak Tree full of excitement but relatively unsure of what to expect; I […]

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To Kill A Machine - Photo by Keith Morris

Scriptography Productions: To Kill A Machine

August 11th, 2015 by

This powerful, affecting work interrogates the boundaries between man and machine through exploring Alan Turing’s life, achievements and eventual persecution based on his homosexuality. Best known for his instrumental role in cracking the German’s Enigma cipher during his time at Bletchley Park in World War 2, fiercely intelligent Turing also taught at Cambridge and developed […]

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Grid Iron Light Boxes

Grid Iron: Light Boxes

August 11th, 2015 by

The room – part stage-set, part immersive installation – seems primed for a hoe-down, or a good long yarn-spinning session around a campfire. The air is pungent with mint and woodchips. An intimate space has been cleared in the forest, and live music softly welcomes us into the moment. Then the story begins, and with […]

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SIRO-A

Siro-A

August 11th, 2015 by

Once upon a long ago in the faded ochre of a 1970s childhood I sat in the stalls of Edinburgh’s venerable Kings Theatre and saw my first instance of real magic – nothing to do with rabbits, or top hats, or cards, but the specific kind of magic that can only happen in a theatre. You […]

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