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What The Butler Saw
August 8, 2007 | adminThis Joe Orton play is given an airing by About Turn Theatre Company as part of the Finge this year and I must admit I was looking forward to seeing it, as I remember this as a very funny … Read More
Waiting for Groucho
August 8, 2007 | adminThis performance of ‘Waiting for Groucho’ didn’t quite succeed for me. Flawed though it was, there is potential from this company. The story is set in the late 1950’s when the Marx Brothers are no longer the dominant force … Read More
W. S. Graham: Out of his Head
August 8, 2007 | adminThe one man, or one woman, play reflecting the life of a renowned, sometimes overlooked, figure from history abounds at this year’s Fringe. When the subject has led a dramatic existence, it can be fascinating. Although Sydney Graham (1918 … Read More
The Voices in my head have formed a choir…..
August 8, 2007 | adminShow buisness is full of unsung heroes, all be it the writers, technicians, costume designers, set designers, but do not forget the chorus lines and actors in smaller roles. Throughout his life Don Stitt has been a performer, one … Read More
Victor Spinetti –A Very Private Diary: Revisited
August 8, 2007 | adminI seem to be seeing several one-person life stories this fringe in this case this is the closest I will ever get to the Fab Four, the Beatles. Victor Spinetti is the only other person to have been in … Read More
Vallimar Jansen is Ethel Waters
August 8, 2007 | adminValLimar Jansen’s re-creation of Ethel Waters in words and song is powerful and spell-binding. Ethel Waters during the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s was one of the most important, and indeed highly paid, black artists of her time. Her early … Read More
Vacant Possession
August 8, 2007 | adminVacant Possessions, a new work written and directed by Ray Brown, is a gentle and ironic comedy. The two characters in the play couldn’t be more different. Joe Sweeting (Geoffrey Wilkinson) is an eccentric old soldier given to collecting … Read More
Unnatural Acts
August 8, 2007 | adminIt still seems strange when people you identify with one genre cross over into another. Jason Woods and The Edinburgh Fringe for me = Music and humour, Jason singing in many different guises. To some extent it is the same … Read More
Turning Heads
August 8, 2007 | adminTwo guys, John and Dan used to be party buddies, but now John is married to Helen with a kid on the way. However John is persuaded to invent a stag party so that he and Dan can have … Read More
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