Made In Edinburgh
We Have a Dream
★★★★☆ Becoming Men
It’s never really about football, is it? As much as We Have a Dream at theSpace @ Symposium Hall explodes with the energy, crumpled flags and lager of a doomed Euros campaign, this is a piece about being a man. Or perhaps more accurately, about becoming a man.
Golden Beryl: Special Oblivion
★★★★☆ Ludicrous
If you haven’t been threatened with assassination at the Pianodrome, have you really been to the Fringe? Leaning heavily on the other in the “Theatre, comedy, other” bracket, The Golden Beryl team invade the Pianodrome at St Oswald’s with Golden Beryl: Special Oblivion.
How to Write a Novel (or Not)
★★★☆☆ A Privilege
The poet Jenny Joseph warns that she will wear purple with a red hat which doesn’t go. Marie-Louise Mills is far too chic for that in her solo show of reminiscences, How to Write a Novel (or Not).
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Jane Austen’s Love & Freindship [sic]
★★★☆☆ Droll
Edinburgh Rep Company and Erstwhile Media take on Jane Austen with an adaptation of the legendary novelist’s Love and Freindship [sic], a satirical parody written by Austen at the age of fourteen.
Bucksomely Betrothals
★★★★★ Bucksome Brilliance
Bucksomely Betrothals is a full throttle farce from Theatre Paradok, with a cast that exploit every aspect of the script to deliver a show that highlights the talent involved both on stage and off.
A Better Memory
★★★☆☆ Smart and tender
A Better Memory (Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 Aug) is a fresh, smart and tender exploration of family secrets and how AI can change your life.
Prophets
★★★★★ Claustrophobic Horror
Prophets is a claustrophobic and intense hour at the RoxyBoxy. Kerris, a Scottish researcher, arrives at a remote British Overseas Territory, ostensibly to study oxygen levels in coral. As she gradually befriends one of the locals, things start to unravel. Who is the Prophet? What does he want? Why has she really come to the island?
BearGirl
★★★★☆ Star Quality
A woman in a bear suit. She’s not wearing if for you, it’s not comfortable and she doesn’t like it. Rachel De Fontes’s titular BearGirl deals with the oddness of the situation in short order from the start of this significant and engaging piece of new writing by Emery Schaffer at the Boxy Roxy.
The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness
★★★★★ Moving
The talented two-person team at Moon Rabbit Theatre present The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness at Surgeons’ Hall. Humorous and poignant, this solo show paints the portrait of an Irish nurse (and self-described poet) who contemplates themes of identity and legacy during the Second World War.
You Talkin’ To Us?
★★★☆☆ Expletives not deleted
Authentically False Productions return with Daniel Sanchez O’Brien’s You Talkin’ To Us? a play that delivers on the promises on its flyers, but falls short in several other respects and fails to deliver on its early promise.
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