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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
Black Mountain 4****
August 22, 2017 | one4review
As I entered the suitably creepy fog bound Roundabout Theatre in Summerhall, I was in no doubt that this was going to be a tense 70 minutes of drama. Paul and Rebecca’s relationship is in crisis and they are on … Read More
Last Resort 4****
August 16, 2017 | one4review
The subterranean venue for Last Resort gives this immersive piece of theatre an added edge as it is in complete contrast to the free cocktail, deckchairs and bags of sand (for toe dipping) that greet the audience on arrival. We … Read More
Don’t Panic It’s Challenge Anneka – on the button 4****
August 22, 2016 | one4review
A warm welcome awaits the audience in ‘Don’t Panic, It’s Challenge Anneka’, as the bewigged and upbeat Sophie Hunter chats to everyone in the audience and hands out sweets and drinks. Once the show starts, the action transforms into a … Read More
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