Written by Adam Rapp Directed by Matt Wilkinson Review by Dominic Corr Traverse Theatre: Tickets ★★★★ Nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play, the buzz surrounding Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside was deserving before its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Traverse Theatre’s cracking TravFest season. Its intense, unflourished … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Sound Inside
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)
Adapted by Derek Webb, from the novel by Ethel Lina White Artistic Direction by Fiona Main ★★★ Dipping into the endless sensibilities and prudish tropes of the 1930s English middle class, this period thriller spins itself into a spiffing evening for Baronesses and Teaboys alike. The more sinister notions of Hitchcock’s film adaptation are treated … Continue reading The Lady Vanishes – Churchill Theatre
https://youtu.be/3eYXV-sYKk0 Based on the Novelist Peter James' Work Adapted by Shaun McKenna Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle ★★ The thirst for more of Detective Roy Grace is palpable throughout the Festival Theatre; with the most recent televised series featuring the much-beloved character concluding, audiences returned to the theatre to watch Shaun McKenna’s sixth adaption of a … Continue reading Peter James’ Wish You Were Dead – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/plmkQYDRC2M Written by J B Priestley Directed by Stephen Daldry ★★★★★ A house, broken. A country at war. A body. A tale on class, socialism, ‘white knights’, the welfare state, and guilt, this one-act play is currently touring its 30th anniversary – and a well-deserved one at that. One of the most prestigious works of … Continue reading An Inspector Calls – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/MCWDBtZo8eM Written by Justin Benson Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead 2022/USA/116 mins ★★★★ Paranoia is a drug; highly addictive and almost therapeutic in its poison. It’s a difficult habit to shake off, hence its use as the building blocks for successful horror, sci-fi and thriller pieces of cinema. And while Something in the Dirt has … Continue reading Something in the Dirt
https://youtu.be/s8AMy2Oh-7I Written by Piros Zánkay Story by Gábor Hellebrandt and Péter Bergendy Directed by Péter Bergendy 2020/115mins/Hungary ★★★ The dead outnumber the living. Surviving the Great War, Tomás finds himself amidst the deceased in an open grave following an explosion which should have claimed him. Mistaken for dead, it is only after the observations of … Continue reading Post Mortem – Review
Written by Joseph Wilde Directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord ★★★★ It’s not peculiar to find a water baby, a person with a likeness for being near to, or found in the water at any chance. Indeed, in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, it’s a relatively normal way of life – and those who find themselves unable … Continue reading In the Weeds – Summerhall
https://youtu.be/q561Vqr8n70 Directed by Demian Fuica & Leonardo Fuica Written by Leonardo Fuica 2020/USA/115mins ★★ The feeling of freedom after the initial lockdown was a peculiar one. The fear was latent, but very much still there. Our desire to see others peaked, and our initial concerns about touching, embracing, and kissing others wilted at the sight … Continue reading Camping Trip – Review
https://youtu.be/b-ybs6ZvoTc Written and Directed by Matt Wilkinson ★★★★★ “What he did was not just a crime against humanity… it was a crime against Theatre”. So, the question is, what the hell did he do? In this remarkably astute one-woman monologue, performed by Emily Bruni, age is the unfortunate reminding factor – inescapable for a once … Continue reading Psychodrama – Traverse Theatre
