Articles by Carla van der Sluijs

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner

Unspoken thoughts and heavy silences become deafening in this gripping production of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by First Floor Productions.

See-Through

Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their number one career of choice.

Cepacia – Love Takes His Breath Away

The story of Romeo and Juliet receives medical treatment in Cepacia from Durham School and Shadow Dreams.

Lines

With damning questions on moral and personal boundaries, Lines is a stunning and complex portrayal of sexual assault.

Care Not, Fear Naught

Piracy is not just a man’s trade in this thrilling piece Care Not, Fear Naught from Temporarily Misplaced Productions.

Losing My Mindfulness

Losing My Mindfulness offers an amusing and uncomfortable send-up of the self-help nation we have become.

Eat Your Heart Out

Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.

Job-Cher

Two struggling Cher impersonators are disrobed and disheartened in Job-Cher.

Framed!

Art and crime collide in a ‘brush with the law’ from Laughing Mirror.

Hello Georgie, Goodbye Best

Manchester United fans old enough to remember 1971 may recall the strange weekend George Best went missing.

Girl World

Frisky are transporting audiences to a fantasy land created by two pre-pubescent girls, Tilly and Inga (played by Camille Dawson and Serena Ramsey).

Our Boys

Our Boys exquisitely showcases life on the battlefield from the setting of an army hospital.

menoPAUSE

Harriet Beveridge’s show menoPAUSE could be considered uncomfortable by many.

Departure Date

Departure Date is a comedy about death that sadly lacks life.

It Is a Truth...

When it comes to empowerment, Jaleelah Galbraith believes today’s feminists should look to Sense and Sensibility instead of Single Ladies.

City Love

Both lovely and devastating in equal measure, City Love by Illuminate Theatre Company documents a romance that lives and dies in the bustle of London town.

89 Nights: An Original Musical

The magic of New York is effectively captured in 89 Nights, a new musical from Troubadour Stageworks.

The Squirrel Plays

Many productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year discuss female freedom of choice, but few do so as creatively as The Squirrel Plays.

Ailsa Benson Is Missing

The synopsis of this intriguing one-woman drama can more or less be summed up by its title: Ailsa Benson Is Missing.

Skin a Cat

Rive Productions are shining the light on a condition more common than many realise: vaginismus.

Doom’s Day

Doomsday preppers: people who ready themselves and their homes for survival in the event of an apocalypse.

I'll Have What She's Having

Millennial anxieties are unpacked and explored in devised comedy I’ll Have What She’s Having.

BARK! The Musical... How the Little Dog Found His Voice

The secret life of man’s best friend is pondered in BARK: The Musical.

Elise

Elise Cowen.

Fallen Fruit

Two Destination Language are encouraging audiences to see the personal narrative behind history with their performance Fallen Fruit.

Freeman

Theatre is often defined as a means of offering a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.

Everything Is Going to Be KO

Everything’s Going to be KO begins with an educational psychologist.

Million Dollar Quartet

Through lively renditions of Rock and Roll hits, Million Dollar Quartet captures a snapshot in musical history: a jamming session between Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee L…

The Ballad of Paragon Station

Theatre is always at its most powerful when you feel truly transported into someone else’s reality.

Breakfast Plays: B!rth

The Traverse Theatre sadly need to offer more than a bacon roll to make Breakfast Plays: B!rth worth getting up for.

The Loneliest Girl in the World

Smashing Mirrors Theatre are shining a spotlight on those usually left in the shadows through their heart-breaking play The Loneliest Girl in the World, written and directed by Eli…

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale.

Ballot Box

Ballot Box from Tea and Tonic productions may be categorised under ‘New Writing,’ but it fails to provide an original scope on Brexit.

Heartwood

Pinecone Penguin Theatrical’s Heartwood has all the makings of an enchanting production, but the slow and insipid script just does not deliver.

Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time

Chamberlain has been relegated to history as one of life’s wishful thinkers.

Walls and Bridges

In their new drama, Walls and Bridges, Acting Coach Scotland delves into the themes of home and belonging through a dystopian Scotland in 2035.

Alex in Shadow

Alex In Shadow from UCLU Runaground proves that puppetry is not just for children.

iDENTiTY

While most sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe play up to their comic roots, Anomaly Theatre Company are adding a touch of the macabre with their dystopian show iDENTiTY.

Confessions of a Personal Trainer

Have you ever wondered how the rich and shameless work out? Katie Kopajtic invites us through the closed golden doors of a luxury New York gym club in Confessions of a Personal Tra…

Bump

If you’re in search of the next big thing this Fringe, look no further.

Dust

Dust is not for the faint-hearted.

Cow

One Devonshire lass and her cow in search for a tractor may not sound the most captivating plot premise you’ve ever heard, but Cow delivers brilliantly on it.

Tumble Tuck

Though not the most affecting one-woman show of the festival, Tumble Tuck, written and performed by Sarah Milton, still definitely manages to make a splash.

Moonlight After Midnight

If Moonlight After Midnight were easier to follow, I’m sure it would make for an incredible piece from Concrete Drops Theatre.

Mental

Kane Power makes many admissions at the start of Mental.

The Marriage of Kim K

Sugary pop meets classical opera in Leoe and Hyde’s The Marriage of Kim K.

The Poltergeist of Cock Lane

Putney Light Operatic Society are bringing a famous English haunting back from the dead with their new musical The Poltergeist of Cock Lane, composed by Steven Geraghty and written…

The Steampunk Tempest

The Steampunk Tempest from Some Kind Of Theatre offers exactly what is says on the tin: Shakespeare’s The Tempest accompanied with steampunk themed costumes and props.

We Are Not Criminals

If you’re in the mood for chilling, hard-hitting drama, look no further than We Are Not Criminals.

Sheets

Clowning is largely known a children’s form of entertainment.

Generation Zero

The difficult relationship between political and personal affairs are addressed in the devastating drama Generation Zero.

The Murderer

Through innovative movement and a thought-provoking script, Clown Funeral’s dark yet comedic The Murderer comments intelligently on society’s inability to forgive and forget, by …

The Ones

The story of a relationship told entirely out of sequence as a play within a play.

Scenes from an Urban Gothic

Scenes from an Urban Gothic by Theatre Imaginers will certainly appeal to those who have come to the Fringe in search of something different.

Her Slightest Touch

Some argue that the Fringe has become too corporate and professional, thus pushing amateur groups out of the scene.

A Good Clean Heart

It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.

And the Rope Still Tugging Her Feet

If you’re hoping to see one performance completely stripped bare this festival, make it this one.

Danyah Miller’s Inspection of Perfection

Feature
Carla van der Sluijs
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2017

As a course leader at The International School of Storytelling, Danyah Miller can certainly spin a good yarn.

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