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The Half 5*****
August 9, 2018 | one4review
The Half centres around the reunion of a comedy double act who haven’t seen each other in the best part of a decade. Inhabiting a dressing room together for the first time in years, we are given a glimpse into … Read More
The Bench by Keir McAllister : – Watch this Space Productions 4****
August 8, 2018 | one4review
It is not often that I review theatre pieces during the Fringe but when there is a comedy alumni of award winning comics such as writer Keir McAllister, Paul Sneddon, aka Vladimir McTavish as the actors and Jojo Sutherland directing … Read More
The Basement Tapes – Zanetti Productions 3***
August 8, 2018 | one4review
If ever a venue was made for a Fringe show, the subterranean Former Women’s Locker Room at Summerhall is the perfect setting for Zanetti Productions ‘The Basement Tapes’. When the audience enter, they are seated in a basement storage room … Read More
Blackout – New Room Theatre & Platform 5*****
August 8, 2018 | one4review
This was a fabulous and disturbing hour of theatre. On a stark white platform 5 actors (3 women and 2 men) give us their life stories as alcoholics, from their early first taste of alcohol, to the love of the … Read More
Ruth Cockburn’s Love Letters From Blackpool – Ruth E Cockburn 4****
August 8, 2018 | one4review
As soon as we enter the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall we are enveloped in a warm blanket of nostalgia as we are faced with posters of saucy postcards, suitcases and seagulls calling. Ruth Cockburn greets her audience with a … Read More
A Fortunate Man – New Perspectives 3***
August 7, 2018 | one4review
This play has come to Summerhall as we celebrate 70 years of the NHS. Using the book ‘A Fortunate Man: The Story of A Country Doctor’ by John Berger and Jean Mohr as a starting point, New Prespectives have built … Read More
Big Aftermath Of a Small Disclosure – Actors Touring Company 4****
August 7, 2018 | one4review
Actors Touring Company bring this play by Magne van den Berg to Summerhall and I spent a pleasurable hour in the company of Louise, Johan, Jon and Sion watching on as their tight cohesive unit splinters following a casual remark … Read More
Heather 4****
August 23, 2017 | one4review
This is a play in 3 parts with a hint of JK Rowling throughout the story line. There’s a calm and amusing start as the email correspondence between Harry the publisher and his publicity shy client Heather Eames is read … Read More
ARM – Mireille et Mathieu 3***
August 23, 2017 | one4review
We walk into the Demonstration Room and are faced with the makings of a flea market with items in various states of repair. This becomes the absurdist playground of Mireille and Mathieu as they use Ken and Barbie dolls to … Read More
Beadledom Alpha 4***
August 23, 2017 | one4review
Back to the Beadledom office to spend a shift with Max whose pristine desk is in sharp contract to the desk of his colleague Deborah. A nice touch at the start of the piece are the links to Beadledom Omega … Read More
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