Puddles is dressed as a Pierrot with the white silken costume, the delicately painted face and white bald head topped with a tiny golden crown decorated with a red letter P. This is where the associations with the sad clown end, as Puddles, who uses his body and face to great effect, proceeds to perform a […]
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Charlie Tuesday Gates: Sing For Your Life
August 8th, 2015 by Adam BennettThis show has a classic Edinburgh Fringe attention-grabbing premise: a musical where the characters are made from dead animals. Described as roadkill meets X-Factor, this four-performer, two-musician show takes the classic musical theatre plot (a bunch of performers want to put on a show as we watch the impresario corral the talent and deal with […]
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Daniel Bye: Going Viral
August 8th, 2015 by Adam BennettThis intimate show staged in the round has Daniel Bye sitting with us as much as standing in the space. A simple grey circle of carpet taped down in the middle seems to define the performing area and it’s telling that as Daniel talks he spends almost all of his time not standing on the […]
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Catherine Wheels: The Voice Thief
August 8th, 2015 by Adam BennettCatherine Wheels are innovators in work for younger audiences. Previous Total Theatre award winners, with early-years production White, their current show (which has already scooped a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) is an exciting promenade piece for older children. We are met on the steps to the basement by Dr Broderick Mackenzie, welcoming our group […]
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Flight of the Escales: I Gave Him an Orchid
August 7th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorWhat becomes of the brokenhearted? They get over it, mostly. I know, I know – it hurts, there will never be another… But there usually is. We live, usually. But oh, the power of love! I Gave Him an Orchid circles around the story of Sarah Henley, who in 1885 attempts suicide by throwing herself […]