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 Kieran Hurley Directed by Roxana Silbert ★★★ Immediately, you get a sense of what Adults is aiming towards. Between the spilt Yazoo (Strawberry flavour, nice), an exceptionally humorous set-up and an almost too perfectly designed dreary set from Anna Orton, Keiran Hurley’s newest piece wants to punctuate the outdated attitudes of sex work with some … Continue reading Adults – Traverse Theatre
Songs by Kyle Falconer Book by Laura Wilde and Johnny McKnight Directed by Andrew Panton and Tashi Gore ★★★★ Music touches us in a way few other expressive mediums do: yes, even theatre. We fall in love to music; it’s our first port of call when we break up or when we’re sad or need … Continue reading No Love Songs – 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/vXNEJ9tt-q8 Written by Eugene O'Brien Directed by Jim Culleton ★★★★ Regret has reared its face at the Festival more than many other concepts this year. How lives may splinter and alter with the decisions we make, or in Heaven’s case, how lives may have played out had we acted on differing impulses and desires. There isn’t a … Continue reading Heaven – Traverse 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/R2Iic1JKamU Written by Uma Nada-Rajah Directed by Debbie Hannan ★★★ The royal vizier, the second-in-command, the confidant; if there is one thing to know about politics - someone else is always pulling the string. The white cliffs of Dover, is there a finer representation of these Isle's welcoming borders? Well, for some, the welcoming part … Continue reading Exodus – 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
