Written by Danielle James Review by Jack Cuinn Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose: Tickets ★★★★ A bold and passionate piece of work, Knives and Forks blends conversations around illness narratives, female friendships, and, essentially, love. Danielle James’ script is a provocation for a performance that enables naturalistic performances from Ianthe Bathurst and Thea Mayeux, who play Iris and … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Knives and Forks
Written by Brian Watkins Review by Jack Cuinn Summerhall - Cairns Lecture Theatre: Tickets ★★★★★ Everything is as it should be. She was born to be a weather girl, and she is, so everything is fine, right? Shining as bright as her perfect pearly whites, Julia McDermott gives a strong central performance as Stacey, the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Weather Girl
https://youtu.be/P0um46zZbbQ Produced by Worklight Theatre Review by Jack Cuinn Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre: Tickets ★★★★ James Rowland welcomes audience members into the Anatomy Lecture theatre for what he announces is (on the performance I saw) his 103rd performance in this space. He warns us of a partial nudity warning as he turns around, revealing … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show
Produced by Kobold Blue Productions Review by Jack Cuinn Underbelly - Bristo Square: Tickets ★★ A woman enters the stage with chalk in hand, tracing a line around its circumference, creating an initial sense of ritualistic anticipation. Yet, when the lights come up, it becomes clear that she has merely marked the playing space, which, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Things Between Heaven and Earth
Produced by Worklight Theatre Review by Jack Cuinn Pleasance Dome - Jack: Tickets ★★★ It’s the Economy, Stupid, a phrase coined by Jim Carville in 1992 for the recession, may resonate a little too close to home to the many fringe artists embarking on the streets of Edinburgh who have taken significant financial risk to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – It’s the Economy, Stupid!
https://youtu.be/Tlby2iHxiNQ Directed by Tom Costello Review by Marina Funcasta theSpace@SurgeonsHall: Tickets ★★★★ A presence from the minute we hear the opening voice recording telling us to switch off our ‘cell phones’; with a character like Brett’s, he definitely doesn’t need anyone else with him on stage. Highly-wired, this fifty-minute monologue flies past, boasting an enthusiasm … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Brett Epstein: Alone on Stage
Written by Kieran Hurley & Gary McNair Directed by Orla O’Loughlin Review by Marina Funcasta ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall ★★★★ Watching adult performers play children is always a risk, especially with older men playing adolescents; from Willy Russel’s ‘Blood Brothers’ to Darren Barnet in ‘Never Have I Ever’, the self-awareness that comes with age and maturity is … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – VL
Created by Temi Wilkey Review by Jack Cuinn Summerhall - Roundabout: Tickets ★★★★★ Temi! Temi! Temi! The crowd goes wild, hanging off every word, worshipping at the altar of the ascension of the self-proclaimed ‘criminally undercast’ Temi Wilkey. Main Character Energy, the last show of the day programmed at the iconic Roundabout by Paines Plough, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Main Character Energy
Created by SUBJECT OBJECT Review by Jack Cuinn Summerhall - Old Lab: Tickets ★★★ Instruction-led improvisatory shows have been a staple of excitement at the Edinburgh Fringe, from Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree, which returned last year to the Lyceum, to Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing, which returns this year to a sold-out run at … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Instructions
Based on the book by John Hart and Julie Welch Written and Directed by Martin Murphy Review by Marina Funcasta Underbelly Bristo Square - The Dairy Room: Tickets ★★★★ If the 27-club extended to football, John White could’ve spearheaded it. Struck by lightning in 1964, White left a team, a country, but most painfully, a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Ghost of White Hart Lane
