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Blink
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 59E59 Theaters
- 15th Aug, 2012
‘Love is whatever you feel it to be’, says Jonah (Harry McEntire) at the start of this quirky romance by playwright Phil Porter.
The Sidcup Family Portrait
- Review
- ★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Alternative theatre doesn’t get more frantic than this irreverent ancestral comedy from Caligula’s Alibi Theatre Company.
Mother Tongue
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
The struggle of one woman to become a mother is the painful, but ultimately uplifting subject of this touchingly honest autobiographical study from Californian performance artist, …
The Trial
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
Kafka’s existential nightmare becomes a short, sharp physical theatre piece from Lecoq-trained On Your Feet theatre.
The Wind in the Willows
- Review
- ★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
AA Milne’s ‘Toad of Toad Hall’, amongst other adaptations, shows Kenneth Grahame’s children’s classic lends itself well to theatrical performance, but this new children�…
Pinch in Love
- Review
- ★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
The poster tagline to Pinch in Love is ‘However appetising the baby may look, the answer is no to cooking it!’ It’s a sinister slogan that promises a darkly comic play full …
The Mikado
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
Boasting some wonderful singing, this bright and breezy adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic brings little that is fresh to the show, but captures much of the sense of fu…
The Ring of Stones
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
The Fringe may not be the most obvious place for epic musicals, but with a cast of twenty-two, Ring of Stones succeeds in being the exception that proves big shows can work.
Werther's Sorrows
- Review
- ★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
A modern day retelling of The Sorrows of Young Werther manages to lose the drama and vitality of Goethe’s work in this muddled adaptation by Time Zone Theatre Company.
Fukushima - A Silent Prayer of Poetry
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
In the days and weeks after the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant last spring, local poet Ryoichi Wago published his thoughts and fears through twitter, reflecting the …
The Loves I Haven't Known
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Chris Bush and Ian McCluskey have both been down on their luck in love, or so they tell us when they say this is a ‘true story based on things that might not have happened.
Salome
- Review
- ★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
In this play, a young princess is besotted by a seemingly deranged prophet, but his rejections spurn her to a devastating final act in this minimalist, if overly simple, adaptation…
Do You Still Throw Spears at Each Other? - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Prince Philip supposedly coined the word ‘dontopedology’ in describing his talent for ‘opening one’s mouth and putting one’s foot in it’, and in this free show at Espio…
Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday.
The Economist
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Any piece of theatre that deals with tragic recent history is likely to divide audiences, and this challenging play that gives a version of the events that led to the massacre by A…
B*tch Boxer
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
With Nicola Adams’ recent boxing success at the London Olympics, this blistering play about women’s boxing couldn’t have come at a less pertinent time.
Bereavement: the Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Woody Allen’s words that “it is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune,” leapt into my head after Bereavement: the Musical.
Doll
- Review
- ★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
A strange mixture of Frankenstein, Pygmalion, and softcore erotica lies at the heart of this debacle of a play from Inverness playwright Liam McCormick.
The Disintegration Loops
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
With a vision of contemporary life viewed through the broken prism of Greek tragedy and commedia dell’arte, this beguiling theatre piece is a brief but dizzy ride that will stay …
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