Bulgarian puppeteer Milena Milanova has produced a commendable one-woman puppet show based upon Chekov’s one-act play On The Harmful Effects of Tobacco. Nikotine is an hour-long lecture on smoking given by a puppet – called Nikolai Nikotine – in which he uses much of his time to complain about his overbearing wife, drawing comparisons between marriage and the act of […]
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Side Pony: The Pride
August 19th, 2012 by Joelson GussonShamelessness is sometimes a virtue. Imagine a group of actors dressed up like lions, but not real lions, no – dressed up in bad fancy-dress lion costumes, as if entertainers at a children’s party. Then, imagine these actors performing almost naturalistically, almost as if they were at home, discussing private matters. Now let’s give them […]
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Dancing Brick: Perle
August 18th, 2012 by Edward WrenDancing Brick theatre company’s Perle is an innovative and touching piece that explores a solitary man’s grief after the loss of his daughter. Adapted from a medieval poem, the oldest in the English language, the story is told in silence by Thomas Eccleshare, a solo performer with only a television, a VHS player and a pile of […]
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Sue MacLaine: Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes
August 18th, 2012 by Richard LaveryA 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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Stand + 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 […]