Author: Ed Boulter-Comer
Transmission
★★★★☆ Messy fun
Transmission, produced by Sanctuary Queer Arts at the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall, is angry, hopeful, fragmented and whole.
Halfway Home
★★★☆☆ Fresh
There is something very apt in seeing Halfway Home, a new play by Deliverance Theatre, in its late-night slot. The characters are tired. Tired of working so hard, tired of the bureaucracies they need to deal with. Tired of being stuck
Dune! The Musical
★★★★★ Professional Troubadour
Dune! The Musical is a masterclass in storytelling as Dan Collins crams an awesome amount of Frank Herbert’s expansive space opera into an hour.
Boys Don’t Dance
★★★★★ Breathtaking
Director/Choreographer Marc Brew’s breathtaking coming of age story Boy’s Don’t Dance at Assembly @ Dance Base is anti-venom for toxic masculinity, tracking the early life of a boy as he develops his sense of self alongside his love of dance.
Two Halves
★★★☆☆ Relentless Naturalism
Oil and water. Rugby and football. Some things don’t mix well. If Muddrag Productions, creators of Two Halves at Studio at theSpaceTriplex are to be trusted, perhaps we should be adding men and women to that list of incompatible things.
We Have a Dream
★★★★☆ Becoming Men
It’s never really about football, is it? As much as We Have a Dream at theSpace @ Symposium Hall explodes with the energy, crumpled flags and lager of a doomed Euros campaign, this is a piece about being a man. Or perhaps more accurately, about becoming a man.
Golden Beryl: Special Oblivion
★★★★☆ Ludicrous
If you haven’t been threatened with assassination at the Pianodrome, have you really been to the Fringe? Leaning heavily on the other in the “Theatre, comedy, other” bracket, The Golden Beryl team invade the Pianodrome at St Oswald’s with Golden Beryl: Special Oblivion.
How to Write a Novel (or Not)
★★★☆☆ A Privilege
The poet Jenny Joseph warns that she will wear purple with a red hat which doesn’t go. Marie-Louise Mills is far too chic for that in her solo show of reminiscences, How to Write a Novel (or Not).
Prophets
★★★★★ Claustrophobic Horror
Prophets is a claustrophobic and intense hour at the RoxyBoxy. Kerris, a Scottish researcher, arrives at a remote British Overseas Territory, ostensibly to study oxygen levels in coral. As she gradually befriends one of the locals, things start to unravel. Who is the Prophet? What does he want? Why has she really come to the island?
BearGirl
★★★★☆ Star Quality
A woman in a bear suit. She’s not wearing if for you, it’s not comfortable and she doesn’t like it. Rachel De Fontes’s titular BearGirl deals with the oddness of the situation in short order from the start of this significant and engaging piece of new writing by Emery Schaffer at the Boxy Roxy.
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