This is awkward. I’m not quite sure why we all decided to come here. You see, we answered this advert on Gumtree. It looked fun. The kind of thing that you sign up to late at night once the wine is finished. She promised cake. And vodka. And comedy. All we had to do was […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016

Never Mind the Noise/Haley McGee: I’m Doing This For You
August 16th, 2016 by Sarah Davies
Abigail Conway: Time Lab
August 16th, 2016 by Thomas JM WilsonThis delightful piece by Abigail Conway (one half of the company subject_to_change) isn’t really a show at all. Rather (developing one aspect of subject_to_change’s work) this is a participatory event, though to use the word ‘event’ suggests something grander and more ostentatious than the delicately poised understatement that is Time Lab. Over the course of […]

Casus: Driftwood
August 14th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorFive performers, two female, three male, walk through the audience, down the aisles, making their way onto the small, round stage in the centre of the Spiegeltent. They are dressed in a tasteful palette of maroon, stone, and dove-grey. A red pendant lamp hangs over the performance space and the five group around it – […]

Lemon Bucket Orkestra: Counting Sheep
August 13th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorPlease NOTE this performance contains: HAZE, GUNSHOTS & LOUD NOISES, FLASHING LIGHTS, FOOD THAT YOU MIGHT BE ALLERGIC TOO, AUDIENCE MOVEMENT, SHEEP. Well, with a welcoming notice like that, you can’t help but be excited! What will happen? What will happen to us? As it turns out, we are the sheep. Right from the start […]

Yinka Kuitenbrouwer: One Hundred Homes
August 13th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorWe are led to a wooden cabin at the rear of Summerhall, a wee building put together lovingly using a quirky assortment of new pine and found wood, like a little fairy-tale house in the woods. We are grateful to get out of the torrential rain. Somewhere to shelter; a temporary home. Yinka has entered […]