Circus Hub: two shows, one from Australia’s Circa, possibly the world’s number one circus company, who bring Humans to this year’s Fringe; and the other is just the second show from UK based Barely Methodical Troupe, whose sparkling first show Bromance won a Total Theatre Award. Their new show is called Kin. Let’s start with […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017
Doughnut Productions: Speaking in Tongues: The Lies
August 17th, 2017 by Sarah DaviesThis innovative production is very well suited to the intimate tent setting of the Pleasance Courtyard’s Green Venue, designed as it is for theatre-in-the-round. The production appealed to me in terms of its interactive billing as a ‘360 degree swivel-seat experience’, where the audience have some autonomy of decision over their view of the play […]
Dancing Brick: Heather
August 17th, 2017 by Sarah DaviesDancing Brick’s production certainly made me feel like I’d been hit in the face by one – in a good way! We are implored not to reveal the awesome twists that Thomas Eccleshare’s taut and wonderful play takes (always tricky in a review) but when they come, the gasps from the audience are certainly akin […]
A Day in the Life of the Edinburgh Fringe
August 17th, 2017 by Dorothy Max PriorGive Me Your Love. Give Me Your Love. GIVE ME YOUR LOVE. Yes, yes, yes – Ridiculusmus slay me with a beautifully written, gorgeously designed and staged, magnificently performed show that leaves me weeping. There’s an elephant in the room here. Except it’s not an elephant, it’s a brown cardboard box stabbed with ragged holes. […]
Enkidu Khaled: Working Method
August 16th, 2017 by Sarah DaviesThis interactive solo piece from Iraqi-Belgian theatre maker Enkidu Khaled is part lecture, part workshop, part direct audience address, but always complex and often fascinating. At its core, it seeks to address the universal age-old question ‘can art save the world?’ This is lent extra weight by the production’s context, for as the show progresses […]