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[Parent]ified
★★★★☆ Authentic
[Parent]ified at The Speakeasy is an underground and understated one woman show with great promise, written by Cosette Bolt and starring Rhona O’Donnell.
Chicago: Teen Edition
★★★★☆ Glorious
Captivate Theatre presents Chicago: Teen Edition, a marginally toned-down version of the vaudeville-style musical about celebrity culture in 1920s Chicago, featuring murderesses vying for public adoration.
George, Don’t Do That… The Joy of Joyce Grenfell
★★★★☆ Nostalgic
George, Don’t Do That… The Joy of Joyce Grenfell, a celebration of Grenfell’s wit, charm and tunes is performed with panache and verve by Rae Lamond and her accompanist on the piano, Willie Campbell.
The Bear
★★★★☆ Fast and furious
Chekov called his own short play, The Bear, a ‘stupid vaudeville’, but it takes smarts and sass to really bring it to life after nearly 140 years, and this production delivers hilariously.
Sweet
★★★★☆ Spirited and original
Sweet from EGTG for week one of the Fringe only, explores a spirited and original tale of Edinburgh’s complicity in benefiting from the slave trade, and some of the women who stood up to campaign against it.
Jacuzzi by Twilight
★★★★☆ Slick
Taking audiences to the streets of Metroville, Jacuzzi by Twilight is a fast-paced comedy, running on alternate (odd) dates with Edinburgh-based Optimiserables other show, Opportunity in Kind.
Ships
★★☆☆☆ Lacking Nuance
Staged in the bar of the Leith Arches events space off Leith Walk, Ships by Mark Forrest for Chapter Three Productions, is set in a very similar Leith bar in the late 1980s.
An Opportunity in Kind
★★★★☆ Tight ensemble
One of two Fringe shows by Edinburgh-based The Optimiserables, An Opportunity in Kind at theSpace on the Mile, manages to strike a remarkably authentic note in spite of its rather absurd narrative.
Our Town Needs A Nando’s
★★★☆☆ Relatably painful
Our Town Needs A Nando’s, from Hot Mess Productions at theSpace on the Mile for the first week of the Fringe, is a relatable and lived-in coming-of-age comedy with dark themes.
Plano
★★★★★ Thrilling microcosm
Plano, presented by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group for EdFringe Week One, feels like David Lynch, Tennessee Williams and Luigi Pirandello formed a fractious throuple in some netherworld multiverse. That is meant as high praise, just don’t expect the play to make any Newtonian kind of sense.
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