Alex Medland
The Faustus Project
★★★★☆ Anarchic
The Faustus Project at Underbelly, Cowgate sees another parade of guest performers make their deals with the devil in this fiendish set-up from Half Trick Theatre.
Waiting for Wonka
★★★☆☆ Sweetly sick satire
Waiting for Wonka at Gilded Balloon’s Patter House delivers deliciously on its billing as an unauthorised parody sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with slick performances and sly digs at the attention economy.
The Faustus Project
★★★★★ Insane
Half Trick Theatre’s remount of The Faustus Project, in the Belly Laugh room of Underbelly Cowgate for the full fringe, is an outrageous piece of theatre – utterly fresh yet surprisingly Elizabethan in sensibility.
Waiting for Wonka
★★★☆☆ Overstretched
Half Trick’s Waiting for Wonka at Augustine Church has plenty of ideas, excellent staging and some genuinely terrific performances, but never quite convinces in the way it threatens to.
Antonio’s Revenge
★★☆☆☆ Unfathomable
Antonio’s Revenge is a definite oddity, not made any less strange by its staging by Edinburgh/New Zealand company Half Trick Theatre at C alto on even dates of the Fringe only.
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