Articles by Emma-Jane Denly

What I Heard About the World

This Third Angel and mala voadora production at the Northern Stage at St.

The Blind

Inspired by the novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago, “The Blind” is a story in pictures, exploring both what it is to be blinded but also diving into the darke…

Duality

Review
★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2012

Pair Dance’s piece aims to combine movement with other technology, and to create a work that embodies “multimedia” by showing that dance and projection (specifically in 3D) c…

Roma

Anthony Lo-Guidice’s semi-autobiographical “Roma” maps the making of an individual through experience and revelation, stylishly leaping through the hoops of birth, adolescent…

Rambling in an Empty Room

Review
★★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2012

This dance project from Taiwan is entirely improvised by its two performers in a style similar to Western contemporary dance.

Medicine Show

Review
★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

When you’re promised with a show that “aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world”, it’s easy to be optimistic.

Dream Plays (Scenes From a Play I'll Never Write)

The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.

Vitamin

It’s pretty hard to describe this one-man show without either sounding obtuse, ignorant or both.

Swamp Juice

The award-winning Swamp Juice - from Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre - dazzles and entertains audiences of all ages.

Thread

Three actors take to the unconventional stage space at the Assembly St.

Peter Panic

Review
★★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

James Balwin’s “Peter Panic” is billed as a response piece to last year’s London riots, placing the known and loved Peter and Wendy of JM Barrie’s “Peter Pan” into a …

Piatto Finale

Review
★★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

Superbolt’s marvelous little offering, despite being loosely plotted and having a somewhat frivolous narrative, makes up for its faults with buckets of heart.

The Most Dangerous Toy

Review
★★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2012

Now, my knowledge of philosophy is not great.

BOBBY WINNER

Mephisto Waltz

Derevo, multi-award winning company from St.

Everything Else Happened

Review
★★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

This adaptation of the short stories of Jonathan Safran Foer, whilst having moments of brilliance, ultimately comes short.

Death Boogie

DDMcG Productions have hit on a winner with this piece: a combination of performance poetry, live-looping and music from two very talented strings players.

The Pride

Review
★★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

A surreal hour of comic drama, The Pride is a bizarre attempt to place the more developed aspects of animalistic behaviour – guarding your territory, hospitality laws, and posses…

What the Heart Remembers: The Women and Children of Darfur

Review
★★
Emma-Jane Denly
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

This theatre/dance offering from the University of South Florida lacks subtlety and feels overly affronting in its clumsy and somewhat confused form.

Request Programme

Cecilia Nilsson (‘Wallander’) stars in this phenomenal insight into the simplicity and painstaking cleanliness of solitary life, leading us gently through what should be an ord…

How a Man Crumbled

Clout Theatre have hit on something good with this dusty, grotesque and wonderfully pointless piece of physical theatre.

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