Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★ Memoirs proving all the rage in recent years, the magic of the genre often resides in the stories themselves, not necessarily the form through which they are told. Luke Wright is the exception. In this spoken word performance, Wright selects extracts from his memoir, Later Life Letter, and strings them … Continue reading Review: Luke Wright: Later Life Letter – Southbank Centre, London
Review by Dominic Corr Just the Tonic at The Caves ★★★★ More than many recent years, the ties of spoken word and storytelling have found themselves at the heart of the Festival Fringe’s theatre/comedy circuits, winning awards and accolades. Storytelling is Theatre. And Theatre is storytelling. Writer, performer, and stand-up Edward Tripp delves into the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Edward Tripp: No Man is an Ireland
https://youtu.be/J3tK6wBXa8A Directed by Grace Morgan Dramaturgy/Original Material from William Dunleavy Review by Dominic Corr Buccleach Terrace: Tickets ★★★★ It all feels like a touch of cloak and dagger. Beginning like a PSA in teaching kids to avoid strangers, the site-specific You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) leaves a single audience member alone on the pavements below the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – You’re Needy (sounds frustrating)
Produced by Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland Based on Hamish Henderson's Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica Choreographed by Helen Gould and George Adams ★★★★ In a time where the power of storytelling is manipulated into turning a day of peace into propaganda, it’s vital to recognise the weight which words, rhetoric, images and movements … Continue reading Elegies – The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Created and Performed by Stuart Kenny, Grant Robertson and Lewis Gillies ★★★★ Let’s just get it out of the way: what a bloody beautiful show. Over the rolling hills of heather, traversing the rough and rugged terrain of the landscape, Scotland’s wilderness is an envy of the world: perhaps some of us need reminding of … Continue reading Bear With Me: A Polar Bear in Scotland – Scottish Storytelling Centre
Created and Performed by John Bolland Co-directed by Mark Thomson ★★★ Conjuring the idea of how it feels to find oneself on a ‘burning platform’ - too hot to stand but too late to abandon, just what options do we have left when facing down the barrel of this Climate Emergency, and what parallels can be … Continue reading Pibroch – Scottish Storytelling Centre
Written and Performed by Imogen Stirling Directed by Matthew Lenton ★★★★★ Envy, Lust, Wrath, Avarice, Gluttony, Sloth, and Pride. Archaic vices, relics of a Christian device of control – or something altogether more benign? Initially conceived and eventually published by Verve Press as Stirling’s second poetry collection, Love the Sinner draws the seven vices of classical theology … Continue reading Love the Sinner
Hosted by Kevin Mclean Music from Jack Hinks Featuring: Malaika Kegode, Stephen James Smith, Roshni Gallagher and Sofia Siren Nobility, gentry, and even the rabble: we all share few things, but the spoken word is one of them. Poetry is a language across boundaries - despite its occasional high-brow misconceptions. But now, so ingrained and … Continue reading Loud Poets: April – Scottish Storytelling Centre
Written and Directed by Nicholas Bones Designed by Sans façon ★★★★ How far gone are we from our kindred association with nature? And how can one expect us to reclaim this understanding and appreciation of the world beneath our feet if we struggle to find peace with one another, even failing to do so with … Continue reading Walden – Fruitmarket
Hosted by Kevin Mclean They’re back. There’s no pomp or pretension; what Loud Poets does from the onset is encourage and offer inspiration to audiences who perhaps wish to find a footing within the spoken word community or want to appreciate it. There’s no lingering start, no extended explanations or push for interactivity; from the onset host … Continue reading Loud Poets – Scottish Storytelling Centre
