EdFringe 2014
Bugsy Malone
✭✭✭✭✩ They have got IT!
Captivate Theatre deliver a charming, uplifting and heartwarming tale about warring gangsters that demonstrates that any body who is anybody will be at their party.
Warrior
✭✭✭✭✩ All too real
Considered and compelling, Black Dingo Productions’ Warrior deals with ingrained sectarianism in a believable way.
Les Miserables
✭✭✭✭✭ Hear the people sing
Skilful, energetic and packing a real emotional punch, Forth Children’s Theatre’s Les Misérables is as impressive a musical production as you are likely to see on the Fringe – or anywhere else.
Nzinga – Warrior Queen
✭✭✭✭✩ Well woven tale
Entertaining and thought-provoking, Toto Tales’s premiere of Nzinga – Warrior Queen has overcome serious setbacks to become a thoroughly successful piece.
Eden Gate
✭✭✭✭✩ Highly infectious
People make decisions every minute of every day, but what if one of those decisions made the difference between life and death, and the fate of humanity? Such are the questions at the heart of this piece of immersive, interactive theatre.
Nudity censored at EdFringe
Actress Elizabeth Sogorb is being forced to wear a flesh-coloured catsuit in her performance of La Nina Barro at the fringe because venue The Newsroom has objected to the nakedness which is an integral part of the show.
Hyde seeks new venue
Hyde & Seek, Michael Daviot’s play about his 50 year relationship with the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, has had to cancel two performances at its C Nova venue and Daviot is now actively looking for a replacement venue.
Sanitise
✭✭✭✭✭ smart, accomplished physical theatre
Set in a suburban bathroom, Sanitise focusses on one woman’s struggle between her (thinly) repressed and inarticulate sexual desires and the obsessive need for cleanliness that her shame over these desires precipitates.
Made in Edinburgh
A significant proportion of Edinburgh fringe productions were actually made in Edinburgh. Eighty five, in all, this year. Here is Æ’s listing of them.
Thief
✭✭✭✭✩ Hello Sailor
Following its award-winning debut at the Brighton Festival in May, one man show Thief makes its wayward progress towards this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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