https://youtu.be/Qfa86liTwVc Written by Sophia Simmons Directed by Claire Glenn Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ There’s a peculiar ‘no-no’ attitude towards discussions of Artificial Intelligence at this year’s Festival Fringe. Shows which feature AI are using it as the butt of a joke, toying with it’s comedic properties, or manifesting it as a throw-away gag character. … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Only Human
Written by Sam Edmunds Directed by Sam Edmunds & Vikesh Godhwani Review by Dominic Corr Summerhall - Demonstration Room: Tickets ★★★★★ Thumping house music, an off-brand bottle of gin (never Gordons), and a thirst for life that only youth can hold, Sam Edmunds’s The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return is an … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return
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)
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
Created by One Step At A Time Like This: Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, Paul Moir & Julian Rickert ★★★★ An eagerly awaited return to the Fringe, a unique experience in which passers-by become choreographers elements of the experience where the streets and alleys we spend our days erupt as the setting – the city of … Continue reading en route – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/UrQphDbxNG0 Written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Directed by Oisín Kearney ★★★★ The very notion of taking an absurdist humour and approach to sexual consent, work-place-harassment and believing those who come forward is not only an ill-advised pr nightmare; but frankly dangerous in the wrong hands. Good thing Lie Low is written with such disarmingly acute humour, and … Continue reading Lie Low – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/hQC7-ie1_VY Written by Jack Nurse & Robbie Gordon Directed by Jack Nurse ★★★★ To paraphrase the right honourable MP Mhairi Black: there’s an ‘F’ word that the country is too fearful to speak. A word we need to vocalise, and a word Wonder Fools encourages audiences to use. A word which thousands died in their … Continue reading 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War – The Brunton Theatre
https://youtu.be/PUUW8Ys-OkM Written by Matthew Bulgo Direction & Choreography by Jonnie Riordan and Jess Williams ★★★★ Death, politics, sex, famine, puppets, identity, metamorphosis, puppets, circuses, musicals, cost-of-living, immigration, and puppets. The Festival Fringe is a lot. And sometimes – the humbleness of uplifting stories with spectacular visuals and harmonies is precisely the tonic we need to … Continue reading Blood Harmony – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/znRTIoEsj7s Written, Composed & Performed by Lauryn Redding Directed by Bryony Shanahan ★★★★★ Maybe it’s the misery deep down, but we’re sick to the back teeth of shmaltzy romances and gooey eyes. Where songs burst with the chipper of lovebirds, and the watery thin narrative makes way for jukebox musical melodies and antics. Lauryn Redding's … Continue reading Bloody Elle: A Gig Musical – Traverse Theatre
