Tom Ralphs
Waiting in Love
★★★☆☆ Waiting too long
Waiting in Love, Moreland Productions Fringe debut written by Scott Young, follows Alan, a would be writer and actual stoner, through a year that begins with him breaking up with his partner and ends with him still not over her.
The Bush
★★★★☆ Relevant
Based on true events, The Bush, written & performed by Alice Mary Cooper recreates 1970s Australia as a group of housewives fight a David and Goliath style campaign to prevent Kelly’s Bush, an area of land in Sydney, from being turned into a housing and shopping development.
Sins of the Mother
★★★☆☆ Family demons
To have one member of a family make a Faustian pact with Satan may be considered a misfortune. To have a father, a son and an ex-daughter-in-law all entering into deals with the devil suggests that something that has gone well beyond your typical dysfunctional domestic drama.
Rocky Horror Show
★★★★☆ Still Rocking
While the new US President was busy signing an order making it clear what he thinks about the trans community, a sweet transvestite transexual from Transylvania was taking a different approach as Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show returned to the Playhouse with its customary mix of swagger, glitz, innuendo and audience call backs.
No Place Called Home
★★★☆☆ Climate crisis drama
Whilst the production team and cast of No Place Called Home are predominantly students, ThirdCulture Productions are not a student led company. At a time when cuts to arts funding in Scotland are making the news again, it’s refreshing to see current and former students committing their immediate future to Edinburgh.
Eleanor
★★★★★ Historical insight
For every figure whose name echoes throughout history there are the descendants destined to spend their lives living in the shadow of their ancestors.
The Ruffian on the Stair
★★☆☆☆ Falls short
For the second of their Fringe productions, EGTG revive The Ruffian on the Stair, a little-known Joe Orton play, sixty years after it debuted as a BBC radio play.
It’s a Sheet Show
★★★★☆ Strong debut
It’s a Sheet Show, Fools and Thieves Fringe debut in a coproduction with The Counterminers, is set in and around a bed. However, there’s nothing tired about the play – or the production – as a series of short scenes track a relationship from its early moments to its demise in a little over fifty minutes.
The Drifters’ Girl
★★★☆☆ Stories still unsung
The Drifters Girl, at the Playhouse this week as part of a UK tour, provides plenty of Drifters hits, hung around the story of Faye Treadwell, who managed the group up until 2001.
Escaped Alone
★★★★☆ Environmental dystopia
Following its Scottish premiere at The Tron earlier this month Escaped Alone, Caryl Churchill’s dystopian play that had its UK premiere at the Royal Court in 2016, comes to the Traverse for five performances only.
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