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Trojan Horse – LUNG – 5*****
August 16, 2018 | one4review
Lung Theatre Group bring us this drama based on Operation Trojan Horse, the suspected attempt by teachers and governors to introduce an Islamist agenda in Birmingham schools. At the time, Government and press made an example of the Birmingham education … Read More
Unsung – SKaGeN/KVS 4****
August 16, 2018 | one4review
If you like a bit of schadenfreunde, then this one man play starring Valentijn Dhaenens is just for you. Incorporating traits of past and present politicians we meet our anti hero who walks onto the stage and begins a political … Read More
Fallen Fruit – Two Destination Language 4****
August 15, 2018 | one4review
Katherina Radeva’s play looks back to life in Bulgaria in the times before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1989, Katherina was seven years old and she paints a vivid picture of a girl who had everything that she … Read More
Handfast – Nutshell Theatre 3***
August 11, 2018 | one4review
When entering the venue, the audience are asked to wear a fascinator or buttonhole as we are honoured guests at the wedding of Mona and Geoff. As well as the bride and groom we are introduced to Sarah and Mark … 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
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