Created by Alexander Tait Directed by Ivan Hamshaw Thomas Review by Marina Funcasta The space @ Symposium Hall : Tickets ★★★★★ A story about identity, friendship, guilt and the power of connection, ‘Kev Campbell was he’ is filled to the brim with emotion and vitality. Something you possibly wouldn’t expect from the title; acquiring an … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Kev Campbell was He
Created by Pam Ford Review by Marina Funcasta Laughing Horse @ City Cafe: Tickets ★★★ Making her yearly return to the Fringe, Pam Ford’s one-woman biographical show is filled to the brim with honest Australian charm. Detailing stories of her childhood flicking between Birmingham and Melbourne, it is clear from the onset that the power … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Pam Ford AKA SPam Ford
https://youtu.be/DDNuQ3kkUBA Written by Franz Kafka Adapted and Directed by Phala Ookeditse Phala Review by Jack Cuinn Summerhall - Demonstration Room: Tickets ★★★★ Reporting to the academy of audience members gathered in Summerhall’s Demonstration Room, Tony Bonani Miyambo is heard before he is seen. Supported by a walking stick, he grunts and shuffles his way into … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Kafka’s Ape
Written by Virginia Gay Directed by Clare Watson Review by Marina Funcasta Traverse Theatre: Tickets ★★★★ In a queer retelling of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, it would be silly to assume anything but a camp assessment of chivalry and honour and, of course, romantic poetry about unrequited love. Toying with a text so old, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Cyrano
Written and Directed by Rae Webb Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★ Lights Out opens to an all-too-familiar space: a bare stage, the only furniture is scattered cardboard boxes. Maeve, played with a certain unruffled ease by Grace Lovejoy, seems to be sailing the ship, so to speak; her sister, Rosie, seems to be doing the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Paradok Platform: Lights Out
Written by Hannah Khalil, based on the story by Atoosa Sepehr Directed by Chris White Review by Marina Funcasta Traverse Theatre - Traverse Two: Tickets ★★★★ According to theatre etiquette, food and live entertainment should never go together. The sounds of crunching and slurping, combined with the pungent smells of flavoured nuts and sticky ice … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – My English Persian Kitchen
