‘Part social realism, part science fiction, with a healthy dose of dystopia’ – 1927’s new show Please Right Back is not quite what it first seems to be, as Dorothy Max Prior discovers at the Edinburgh International Festival 2024 We enter the auditorium to see a whole-stage projection across three screens, monochrome op-art style graphics, […]

Rosie Denner makes the pilgrimage to Edinburgh to see three shows presented at theSpaceUK venues as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 With the gut punches of Apricot, the twisty turns of An Act of Grace, and the true and bitter reality of Addict, this writer’s trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was well […]

The two-hander is a staple of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but this can mean very many different things. Dorothy Max Prior reports back on some of the more unusual pairings seen at Fringe 2024, embracing circus, physical and visual theatre, and live art The world of circus and physical theatre is teaming with two-handers, and […]

Dorothy Max Prior sees three impressive ensemble circus shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Circa: Humans 2.0, Cassus: Apricity and Recirquel: Paradisum – all exploring what it means to be human Legendary Australian company Circa have made Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows their home in recent years. Last year, they brought Peepshow to the […]

Brian Lobel gives us alternate takes on Nick Cassenbaum’s Revenge: After the Levoyah, a ‘two-hander comedy heist that blows the roof off what it means to be Jewish in the UK. ’ Here’s our starting point: Twins Lauren and Dan meet ex-gangster Malcolm Spivak at their grandfather’s funeral. Malcolm, who’s ‘had enough’, enlists the siblings […]