Written and Performed by Emily Beecher ★★★★ Many of us lampoon the memoir solo show: it certainly makes up a staggering proportion of the Festival Fringe’s line-up. But these cathartic, brutally honest and sincere performances are often the fastest and most influential ways to connect with an audience. Summer Camp For Broken People is a prime example. So, … Continue reading Summer Camp for Broken People – Summerhall: Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Written by Cara Wilson, Ella Hällgren, Carly Wilson & Tanyaradzwa Gimani ★★★ There’s something about the woods, a land where stories are forged and mistakes made. An aspect of the direct connection with something earthen, and primal, brings out a mechanic of the emotional connection we often lose within the confines of concrete and glass … Continue reading WOODED – Assembly Roxy
https://youtu.be/knmZ-A3wmsY Written by Skye Loneragan Composed by Mairi Campbell BSL Interpretation by Yvonne Waddell ★★★★★ Stay on the Ball. Stay on the Ball… With a determination to soothe her baby, surrounded by the chaos of new parenthood, Skye Loneragan weaves the act of settling her new daughter with exploring the various difficulties and distractions which … Continue reading Though This Be Madness – The Studio
https://youtu.be/u1TYPXdqcd0 Created by Caldonia Walton & Kathy Richardson Filmed by Barney White/Quiet Eye Film ★★★★ Decades. Centuries. A Millennia of scholars, scientific endeavour, and academic study – and still, the exploration of mental, emotional, and physical ‘weight’ we carry within our thoughts, a bellowing internal spectral voice on our bodily autonomy is still something we … Continue reading Weight/Wait – Swindon Dance
Written & Directed by Enda Walsh Produced by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival ★★★★★ What's your Medicine? In dissecting the social responses to mental health concerns, Enda Walsh's new production launches the Theatre portion of the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival. And at first, it seems as though we’re disturbing a party – or at … Continue reading Medicine – Edinburgh International Festival
https://youtu.be/6M8Pvdst_7g Written & Directed by Cristian Solimeno 2011/ UK/ 108 mins ★★★ What a premise. What a deep-seated deconstruction of abusive and toxic masculinity. What a cast of accomplished performers, and what a shame. Just shy of a decade ago, Cristian Solimeno’s The Glass Man saw a limited release. Now, towards the tail end of 2020, this psychological … Continue reading The Glass Man – Review
Tickets for shrapnel are free, and can be found here Loneliness has had as significant an impact as financial and health concerns throughout the 2020 global pandemic. Hoping to demonstrate all of the various forms loneliness manifests across the COVID-19 outbreak, Production Lines is proud to showcase an online performance of shrapnel. Homegrown and created here … Continue reading shrapnel – Production Lines
Writer and Choreographer: Rhiannon Faith Director: Adam Sheldon Lockdown has forced the hands of creativity to flourish in completely unexpected ways for many, and though several productions seek to transform their shows for a virtual or digital format, Rhiannon Faith’s Drowntown Lockdown, a short film, serves as a precursor to a future theatrical narrative, all the time … Continue reading Drowntown Lockdown – Barbicon Online
https://youtu.be/MgRjB8PEDkM Written & Directed by Adam Elliot Australia/2009/92 Mins ★★★★★ A two-fold coming-of-age narrative ‘Mary and Max’ (2009) charters the progression of Mary, a young, ‘chubby’ and socially anxious Australian, into a woman, friendship with Max, a middle-aged Atheistic Jew in America. Pen pals, a support system, their friendship grows as Mary seeks an escape … Continue reading Mary and Max – Retrospective Review
Writers: James Beagon and Catherine Expósito Directors: Ruth Hollyman and Catherine Expósito Championing youth theatre in Edinburgh for over a decade, Strange Town return to the Traverse Theatre with two modern pieces; Little Boxes and Stolen Futures. Fitting for their anniversary, both productions take a leaping point of ‘future’ but differ vastly in content, narrative and structure. What … Continue reading Little Boxes and Stolen Futures: Double Bill – Traverse Theatre
