Writings

Anna-Mari Laulumaa: God Is In My Typewriter

August 12th, 2014 by

The Pulitzer prize-winning poet Anne Sexton was abused by her father, unloved by her mother and sexually exploited by her therapist, all of which probably contributed to her depression and ultimate suicide in 1974. This we learn through the unsettling work God Is In My Typewriter. Grim stuff. Performer Anna Mari Laulumaa from Finland presents […]

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Teatri ODA: Invisible Walls

August 12th, 2014 by

Invisible Walls, performed by Kosovan company Teatri ODA, is an affecting piece of physical theatre resembling an applied form of theatre-in-education that was particularly prevalent in the eighties and early nineties. It is performed outside, and the Soviet-style towering buildings which make up the Summerhall courtyard space act as walls around the audience at the […]

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Future Ruins: Theatre on a Long Thin Wire

August 12th, 2014 by

Twelve strangers stand in an empty room right in the eaves of Summerhall. Nearby is a faded-looking chair with a mobile phone resting on it. Suddenly, the phone rings, and so begins our journey, facilitated by the whims of a voice on the end of the line. Theatre on a Long Thin Wire is a […]

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Little Dog Barking Theatre: Duck, Death and the Tulip

August 12th, 2014 by

The word death in the title of a children’s show may well seem out of place, but let this not deter you from giving this story a chance. It is after all based on a book which, when it came out in Germany in 2007, became a critically acclaimed best seller. Working in the best […]

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Paines Plough - LUNGS - Photo Thomas Doyle

Paines Plough: Lungs

August 12th, 2014 by

A new production of Duncan Macmillan’s 2011 two-hander forms part of a repertoire of four plays to be toured by Paines Plough’s pop up venue Roundabout. The shows, all performed by three actors and in the round, open in Edinburgh before they start their autumn itinerary. Directed on this occasion by George Perrin, the production […]

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