An empty stage, house lights on full, three false starts, then a blast from Carmina Burana (aka the Old Spice ad music), and a great moving lump appears in the back-wall curtain, which is pulled this way and that, chairs and shoes and toilet rolls spilling out of the sides. The curtain is pulled down […]
Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Blind Summit: The Table
August 22nd, 2011 by Beccy SmithProving the unholy combination of cabaret laughs, top quality puppetry and a late-night vibe is a stylish offer for the Fringe, Blind Summit’s new show returns to their roots – as seen in 2005’s breakthrough show Lowlife – by selling high-class puppetry to entranced Edinburgh crowds. There’s a lot of puppetry about on this year’s Fringe, conjuring […]
Orkestra del Sol: Top Trumps
August 22nd, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorAs we enter a very lively and packed Spiegeltent – one of a group of mobile venues that are in St George’s Square, the Assembly’s temporary home due to its usual HQ on George Street being requisitioned – we’re issued with Top Trumps cards. You remember those don’t you? Collector cards that pre-dated Pokemon and […]
Barrowland Ballet: A Conversation with Carmel
August 21st, 2011 by Lisa WolfeThe stage is set simply: two long tables with white tops, a cup and saucer placed centrally on each, and behind one, prim and petite, sits Diana Payne-Myers. She is the eponymous Carmel, celebrating her 80th year with a family gathering that exposes truths and tests assumptions, and within which the life-enhancing benefits of dance […]
Mars.tarrab: Tomboy Blues – The Theory of Disappointment
August 20th, 2011 by Andy RobertsIn Tomboy Blues – The Theory of Disappointment two performers explore the nature of disappointment and tomboyish behaviour by trailing through their childhood memories, quoting cheesy movies, listening to music, and reading unreliable science books. We focus on the scientific fact that hope is intrinsically built into every human psyche, and that to have hope will unavoidably […]