Written by Jess Gerrier Directed by Ivan Hamshaw Thomas Review by Marina Funcasta theSpace @ Venue 45 ★★★★ In a play about insincerity, I suppose it is unsurprising that we fail to really connect with any one character. Crocodile Tears, written by Jess Ferrier, is a comedic exploration into the personalities we see on reality … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Crocodile Tears
Created by Tara Boland Directed by Joz Norris Review by Marina Funcasta Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ This show is about living your dream – loudly, joyfully, and unapologetically. It’s funny and big-hearted, pulsing with the only determination a dance teacher could master. Dusty holds herself with unblinking devotion to the cause – of dance, of dreaming, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Dusty Creases: Dance Your Life Away
Created by Emily Carding Review by Marina Funcasta The Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★ Not a gamer myself, I can’t help but sense a childish trepidation any time a board game or card game are mentioned; keeping up with the rules, the competition, the stakes – it’s a lot to bear in mind. You can imagine … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Timonopoly
Written and Performed by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland Review by Marina Funcasta TheSpace@Niddry St ★★★★★ When it comes to Fringe shows, I can’t help but consider those with long titles to be a bit of a write-off. Not even fitting into the (admittedly miserly) space afforded to them by the program, I find long … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First
Direction and Performed by Tess Letham Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly@ Dance Base ★★★★★ Tess Letham captures something in what ever happened to Harmony Banks which feels almost eerily of the moment. Indulging in slow sequences, Letham transforms into an AI-inspired extra-terrestrial, mastering a vacant, automaton gaze. Deeply unsettling at points, we are made to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – What ever happened to Harmony Banks?
Written by Freya McCall Review by Marina Funcasta Bedlam Theatre ★★★ A writer, a psychology professor and a doctor walk into a bar and… are greeted by the devil? In this fifty-minute interrogation, Jim, Mark and Pearl are forced to bargain for their life; or, as our seamy, satanic storyteller puts it, their afterlife. Whether … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Sins of the Mother
Concept, Choreography, Direction, and Dramaturgy by Lenka Vagnerová Review by Marina Funcasta ZOO Southside ★★★★ Panoptikum promises physical theatre but delivers a magnificent showcase of eerie idiosyncrasies and haunting illusion. Hypnotising from the moment they enter onstage, the ensemble of dancers from Lenka Vagnerovná company are devilishly disturbing in their switching disguises. From sword fights, to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Panoptikum
Produced by Vilma Pitrinaite Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly @ Dance Base ★★★★ For such a short show, this seriously packed a punch. From the sound, to the movement, to the breath work, Vilma Pitrinaite attacks her work with a ferocity which is hard to capture with mediums that aren’t as tangible as the body. … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – When You’re Alone In Your Forest Always Remember You’re Not Alone
From Aotearoa New Zealand contemporary dance company Foster Group comes the world premiere of Double Goer - a characterful and compelling new dance show tracking the conflicts and kinships of two strikingly similar women. An exploration of the German word ‘Doppelgänger’, Double Goer is a surreal and highly detailed contemporary choreography based on the Doppelgänger … Continue reading Have a Gander – Double Goer
Directed by Anne Maher ★★★★★ A production in two parts, Ballet Ireland’s Bold Moves is a moving and entertaining feast for the eyes which has a limited run at the Dance Base during their Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022 season. The first sequence of performance, Us, choreographed by rising star Zoë Ashe–Brown, is an emotive exploration … Continue reading Bold Moves – Dance Base
