Traverse
PPP: Feis
★★☆☆☆ Scattergun
Feis by Anna McGrath, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is a cheerful but lightweight comedy that tries to go in too many directions at once.
PPP: Our Brother
★★★☆☆ Serious
Our Brother by Jack MacGregor, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is a tense political drama that is well acted but whose structure occasionally lets it down.
PPP: Wallace
★★★★☆ Intelligent fun
Wallace, the first in the new season from Play, Pie and a Pint at the Traverse, is a sparky, original and historically aware co-production from Òran Mór and Raw Material.
Nowhere
★★★☆☆ Personal
Nowhere at the Traverse for the second half of the Fringe, is presented by Fuel as part of the Here and Now showcase. It is an urgently topical and personally heartfelt, if somewhat uneven, production.
Consumed
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Consumed at the Traverse is a fiercely funny domestic comedy that turns into something else entirely. If it isn’t completely successful, it’s always interesting.
Standing in the Shadows of Giants
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
Show business excess and hard-won personal discovery coincide in Standing in the Shadows of Giants, the co-production between the Traverse and The Hale.
Lost Lear
★★★★☆ Affecting
Deeply sad, gently comic and profoundly human, Lost Lear from the Riverbank and Mermaid Arts Centres at the Traverse is an emotional affair.
The Beautiful Future Is Coming
★★★★☆ Wise
Bristol Old Vic’s The Beautiful Future Is Coming by Flora Wilson Brown at the Traverse is a beautifully performed rumination on the climate emergency and human responses to it.
Lucky Tonight!
★★★☆☆ Competitive fun
Lucky Tonight! at the Traverse is part play, part quiz, and while one part is more successful than the other, it is undoubtedly great fun.
RIFT
★★★★☆ Immediate
RIFT from American company Luna Stage – and making its UK debut at the Traverse – is a harsh slice of life, performed notably well.
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