Ben Harrison
Strange Tales
★★★☆☆ Cultural collision:
There are certainly moments of magic in Strange Tales, the Christmas co-production between Grid Iron and the Traverse, but they are too few and far between.
A Game of Death and Chance
★★★★☆ Eerily Interesting
Young critics scheme review
In A Game of Death and Chance, the National Trust for Scotland’s first ever Fringe show, four characters from the 17th century – and death himself – have occupied an old Edinburgh tenement to tell stories of Scotland’s past.
South Bend
★★★★☆ Comic Journey:
South Bend at Gilded Balloon at the Museum is a sharp, bittersweet comedy that is smart enough to know when to be clever and when to be stupid.
Before the Hudson and the Liffey
James Connolly in Edinburgh and Leith:
In this centenary year of the Easter Uprising, the EIF combined with Edinburgh’s trades unions to commission a short piece of theatre that remembered the union activities of James Connolly, who was born in Edinburgh.
Bedfest returns
EUTC’s theatre festival at Bedlam:
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s theatre festival BedFest runs at its home at the Bedlam this week with six different productions and 14 workshops.
Letters Home
★★★★☆ Power of communication
Letters Home combines inventiveness, variety, sophisticated writing and sheer visual magnetism.
Review – Barflies
★★★★☆ Genuinely engaging
Having enthralled audiences and critics alike at the Fringe in 2009, Grid Iron’s Barflies, an adaptation of a clutch of Charles Bukowski’s writings, now sets out to prove its worth outside the rarified festival atmosphere.
Æ Review – Spring Awakening
★★★★☆ Brutal:
Grid Iron Theatre Company have joined forces with the Traverse theatre to create a brief, brutal and quite devastating new working of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening.
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