A brilliant piece of new writing reinforced by a distinctive setting, Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes has the small and intimate audience take part in a life drawing class, confronted from the beginning by an exposed and vulnerable Henrietta Moraes (performed excellently by Sue MacLaine) as she talks us through the eccentricities of her life […]
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Sue MacLaine: Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes
August 18th, 2012 by Richard LaveryStand + Stare with Emma Callander: The Guild of Cheesemakers
August 18th, 2012 by Hannah SullivanThe Guild of Cheesemakers has been created by Stand + Stare Collective and Emma Callander, with the concept, script and performance created through a process that saw them work with artisan food producers in the UK. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the Guild of Cheesemakers met in the café of Summerhall. Invited to a cheese and […]
RashDash Theatre: The Ugly Sisters
August 18th, 2012 by Edward WrenRashDash Theatre are a company going from strength to strength and their production of The Ugly Sisters at the Fringe this year is a testament to this stellar progression. Now becoming regular favourites at the festival, their frenetic mix of physical theatre, dance and live music is carving them a unique space in the theatrical landscape. The […]
Vicky Araico Casas: Juana in a Million
August 17th, 2012 by Dorothy Max PriorTequila, sombreros, Mariachi, tortillas… Juana’s had enough of all that. What she wants is fish-and-chips, Billy Elliot and Buckingham Palace. Launched on her journey by a fiercely beating drum and a wild-as-the-wind Aztec dance, our heroine sets off from a small town in Mexico beset by economic depression and gang violence to seek out the […]
Dr Brown: Befrdfgth / Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his singing tiger
August 17th, 2012 by Edward WrenGrowing up can be a compromise. In the relentless drive towards adulthood it can be so easy to forget some of the most important elements of being a child. In some small way Dr Brown, with his shows Befrdfgth and Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his singing tiger, is helping us to reconnect with the most […]