Posts Tagged ‘review’
Fringe review: Maki Me Laugh
This is one of the more eccentric ideas I’ve encountered at the Fringe (which is a high bar). The idea is that while diners eat at Yo! sushi restaurant opposite the Mound on Princes Street, stand-up comedian Maddy Lucy Dann does her set. There are microphones hidden around every table which measure the level of mirth…
Read MoreFringe review: Mr and Mrs Love
Jeremy Welch reviews Mr and Mrs Love at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was a serendipitous moment when I fell across this cabaret show and I’m delighted to have seen it. The show is a musical rom com combining music as wide ranging as Greig’s piano Concerto in A minor through West Ends show hits…
Read MoreFRINGE REVIEW: IMA (‘Pray’)
Rosie Morton reviews IMA at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. IMA (the Hungarian word for ‘pray’) is a spine-tingling circus experience from Budapest’s multi-award-winning Recirquel Cirque Danse company. It is a mixture of contemporary circus, dance and theatre in which a sole aerial performer takes centre stage. First, you are put into a sensory deprived, blue/grey room…
Read MoreFringe Review: Ctrl Room
Jeremy Welch reviews Ctrl Room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This is an immersive theatre production from Black Hound Productions. Think Crystal Maze and you’ll be along the right track. The scene is the battlefield of the future and the role of artificial intelligence in battle. The audience is separated into two different rooms by a…
Read MoreFringe Review: Everything Under The Sun
Jeremy Welch reviews Everything Under The Sun at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Dear Mother Africa, she bleeds. This play is written and directed by Highland writer Jack MacGregor, it is very well researched and his forensic eyes have turned the situation in Mali into a compelling drama. Mali? Where is it? What is happening there? These…
Read MoreFringe Review: Wiesenthal
Jeremy Welch reviews Wiesenthal at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Written by Tom Dugan and acted by Christopher Gibbs, this production is compelling. It takes place in Wiesenthal’s office just before his retirement. Gibbs plays Wiesenthal perfectly at the later stages of his working life, retiring he may be but the fire and dedication to track down…
Read MoreFringe Review: Six Chick Flicks…
Richard Bath reviews Six Chick Flicks…Or a Legally Blonde Pretty Woman Dirty Danced on the Beaches While Writing a Notebook on the Titanic. The premise of this parody is that two wisecracking sassy young women take the piss out of six iconic chick flicks: Titanic, Legally Blonde, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Beaches and The Notebook.…
Read MoreFringe Review: Warriors
Jeremy Welch reviews Warriors at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This production is outstanding theatre, theatre at its very best. Warriors tells the tale of three soldiers who have recently completed basic training at Colchester and are destined for a six month tour in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. When I first read that this storyline was going…
Read MoreFringe Review: Angel Monster
Jeremy Welch reviews Angel Monster at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This dance production from Australian Troupe Phluxux2 Dance Collection is sold with the theme of equality, ownership and respect. It’s more complex than those three words. The five female members of the troupe start by welcoming the audience in an obsequious and servile manner ushering the…
Read MoreFringe Review: Endless Sunset Oblivion
Jeremy Welch reviews Endless Sunset Oblivion at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This solo performance from Mike Baillie is similar to the Troubadours of France in the 12th Century. It combines poetry, narrative and music to tell the tale of Reuben. Reuben, a talented songwriter, has submerged into the swamp of social media and…
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