Articles by Hannah Myers

Booking Dance Festival - Showcase

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2011

The Booking Dance Festival is a self-titled ‘dance festival within a festival,’ and their annual Fringe showcase certainly offers the opportunity to experience a smorgasbord of…

Snails and Ketchup

Review
★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2011

In Snails and Ketchup, Glasgow-based Singaporean Ramesh Meyyappan tells the dark tale of a dysfunctional family through solo mime.

David Leddy's 'Untitled Love Story'

Review
★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2011

The excitement in the audience is palpable as the lights dim in St George’s West, a beautiful venue that lends itself well to theatrical transformation.

Belarus Free Theatre

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2011

The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…

Belle of Amherst: Double Vision

Review
★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2011

William Luce’s dramatisation of the life and times of nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson, draws directly and extensively on excerpts from Dickinson’s own works and letters…

Agnes and Walter (A Little Love Story)

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2011

What a joy and a rarity it is to see a cross-generational cast of performers, ranging in age from 28-78, share the stage in dance theatre of this calibre.

What Remains

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2011

The bright lights and cheer of the festival suddenly seem a distant memory as we step into the eerily lit entrance hall of the University of Edinburgh Anatomy Department in Grid Ir…

Parallel Memories

Review
★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2011

Acclaimed choreographer Jean Abreu, returns to the Fringe in collaboration with Jorge Garcia, following the success of last year’s Inside.

Working the Devil

Review
★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
30th Aug, 2011

In Working the Devil, dance collective Dog Kennel Hill Project present two courses of stylistically contrasting dance that explore the world of work from differing perspectives.

LOL (Lots of Love)

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
30th Aug, 2011

The six-strong cast of Luca Silvestrini’s Protein Dance vividly captures the extremes of excitement and loneliness associated with mobile communication and online social media in…

Death Song

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2011

Twice Total Theatre Award-nominees You Need Me tackle heavy subject matter and live up to their reputation for creating evocative physical theatre in this highly-charged drama, wit…

Female Hitchhiker: The Truth About Getting Around - Free

Review
★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2011

In this free one-woman show, Clara Lilly shares a string of stories collected from ten years of hitchhiking.

Cycle One (60º)

Review
★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

As promised in the blurb, In-Transit Dance Company deliver a fast-paced and energetic dance performance, to the degree that at times the onstage action is almost dizzying.

Scottish Dance Theatre – Matters of the Heart

Review
★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
30th Aug, 2011

Fringe-veterans Scottish Dance Theatre, this year celebrating their 25th birthday, return to Zoo in fine fettle with a mixed bill of three works, two of which showcase choreography…

Coal Head, Toadstool Mouth and Other Stories

Review
★★★★
Hannah Myers
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2011

The clinical, modern lecture theatre of the Symposium Hall, undoubtedly one of the less atmospheric fringe venues, is rather at odds with the style of this show.

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