Derek Douglas
The Court 1
★★☆☆☆ Needs polish
Edinburgh Little Theatre’s The Court 1, at Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge for the whole Fringe, is an interactive legal drama in which the audience decides the verdict.
Carnegie
★★★☆☆ Informative
Returning after a successful run in 2016, Carnegie at Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge is a contemporary musical inspecting the life and achievements of Andrew Carnegie from all angles.
The Court 3
★★★☆☆ Fun in justice
Edinburgh Little Theatre presents The Court 3, in which the year is 1591 and folk healer Agnes Sampson is being put on trial for witchcraft in Scotland – with the audience acting as jury.
Kafka For Beginners
★★★☆☆ Surrealist Satire
Julian Henry Lowenfeld’s Kafka for Beginners, directed here by Derek Douglas, offers an entertaining anti-authoritarian satire for any festival-goer all too familiar with sighing when they check the news.
Bare
★★★☆☆ Ambitious
Edinburgh Little Theatre brings Bare: A Pop Opera to the Alba stage at Hill Street Theatre for a full run of the Fringe, an ambitious musical of teenage angst and queer identity in a Catholic boarding school.
And They Played Shang-A-Lang
★★★☆☆ Exhilarating
And They Played Shang-A-Lang at Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge for the whole run of the Fringe, wonderfully navigates the highs and lows of growing up in Edinburgh in the 1970s.
And They Played Shang-a-Lang
★★★★★ Joyful romp
After an eleven-year streak, Edinburgh Little Theatre’s And They Played Shang-a-Lang opens what is billed as its final Fringe run, to a packed and cheering house at the Hill Street Theatre.
Wallace
★★★☆☆ Raw
Edinburgh Little Theatre’s Wallace is a conscious attempt to stir the blood by celebrating a figure from Scottish history.
Alfie and George
★★★☆☆ Last curtain
If the ghost of Samuel Beckett was invited to return from the grave to write an episode of Inside No.9 he might have come up with a similar idea to the one used for Alfie and George at Hill Street Theatre.
Independence
★★★☆☆ Committed
Independence, from Edinburgh Little Theatre at Hill Street, is a politically-charged piece that takes a few wrong turns but has huge reserves of dedication.
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