Created by Buzzcut Productions Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Buzzcut Productions combines cameras, puppets, diorama sets and a remarkably peculiar story to create a spellbinding, though uncanny, depiction of rural English suburbia. Emerging from a similar world to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Coraline, this Wonderland is, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bark Bark
Written and Performed by Katie Greenall Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Techcube 0 ★★★★ Blubber is an evocative and immersive piece by Katie Greenall that artfully combines storytelling with participatory elements, making it a standout show this year. The performance invites the audience into a shared space, where the themes of communal care and connection are … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Blubber
https://youtu.be/QlVJcaCk4Is Written and Directed by Seb Elder Review by Gabriel Rogers Greenside @ Riddles Court ★★★★ Third Culture Productions' debut fringe show boldly explores how grief and the climate crisis affect a young family and their friend. No Place Called Home, written and directed by Seb Elder, doesn’t stage the climate crisis at ground zero but instead in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – No Place Called Home
https://youtu.be/WHxFMFv1iOw Created by Tom Bailey Review by Gabriel Rogers Zoo Southside ★★★★★ Tom Bailey’s Vigil is a delicate love letter to the lesser-known and more interestingly named fauna which lives or, rather upsettingly, has ceased to live on planet Earth. The show begins comically as Bailey attempts, with great success, to mimic and clown 26,000 … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vigil
Written by Nick Cassenbaum' Directed by Emma Jude Harris, Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★★ As we enter the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, an event is already occurring. Onstage sit Gemma Barnett and Dylan Corbett-Bader, intensely awaiting the opportunity to launch into the roaring farce of REVENGE: After the Levoyah. Describing this play … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – REVENGE: After the Levoyah
Produced by TheatreGoose Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Looming over the Anatomy Lecture Theatre hangs a canvas sheet, encasing the audience in a night of magical storytelling reminiscent of the March sisters’ plays in Little Women. While there are nods to Louisa May Alcott’s novel, the heart of Theatre Goose’s Sisters … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Sisters Three
Produced by Sh!t Theatre and Soho Theatre Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Techcube 0: Tickets ★★★★ Sh!t Theatre’s Or What’s Left of Us is a raw, captivating exploration of grief and resilience, cleverly wrapped in the duo’s signature blend of music, comedy, and storytelling. Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole, the dynamic force behind Sh!t Theatre, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Sh!t Theatre: Or What’s Left of Us
Written by Kelly Jones Review by Jack Quinn ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall: Tickets ★★★★★ Brimming with emotion and meta-theatrical wit, My Mother’s Funeral is a pressing reflection on the extortionate costs of theatre-making and funeral-arranging. The narrative centres around Abigail Waller, freelance theatremaker and writer, whose mother has just passed away. The play opens with an all … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – My Mother’s Funeral: The Show
https://youtu.be/G76ezrzIiPU Choreographed by Giovanni Zazzera Review by Marina Funcasta CARTS - Studio: Tickets ★★★★★ As a former performer myself, I was initially struck by the directness of Alexandre Lipaux’s facial expressions while watching Negare. Singling out members of the audience, Negare is definitely not the type of show one enters and hopes to hide behind … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Negare
https://youtu.be/pf4GM-_7KMo Created and Performed by Sam Ward Review by Jack Quinn ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall: Tickets ★★★ Imagine it, you are in a theatre, and you have come here to believe in the make-believe, find truth in the not-true. Nations, or ‘imagined communities’, function in a similar way, argues Sam Ward in his newest play, which … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Nation
