Articles by Martin Gimenez

The Way to Keep Him

An eighteenth century romantic parlor comedy in an eighteenth century parlor.

You Once Said Yes

That simple word opens up many possibilities throughout your solo journey through You Once Said Yes.

Hotel Nowhere

Review
★
Martin Gimenez
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
10th Aug, 2010

Cardinal sin number one of site specific theatre: Picking the wrong site! Despite the fact that Hotel Nowhere actually takes place in a hotel, and the fact that B.

Wolf

Upon entering their den just off the Cowgate, the cast of Wolf are howling, sniffing, and prowling about with wild abandon.

Roadkill

A young African girl on a bus is jabbering away about her recent arrival.

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel.

Reykjavik

From the second you are given a clean suit and goggles to don, you know this will not be your average Fringe show.

Decky Does a Bronco

The moments when you grow up, some may be small, others massive.

Waiting for Apollo

One of the most fascinating aspects of Greek drama is the ability for modern theatre artists to freely interpret it.

Reverie

An exploration of the concept of lucid dreams, this new play has a lot of meat on the bone.

You Wouldn't Know Him, He Lives in Texas

Last year on my final weekend at the Fringe, a friend of mine met a local man at the Silent Disco, started snogging him, and then eventually started to date him.

David Leddy's 'Sub Rosa'

The history of Edinburgh opens up so many opportunities for brilliant site specific work, which is rarely properly realised.

Tokyo Love Song

What starts out with Shoko Ito charmingly asking the audience if they love someone with Japanese pop songs gently wafting into their ears quickly devolves into a series of dreamsca…

Poland 3 Iran 2

Less a piece of theatre, and more a very interesting tandem lecture about football, politics, and family all cornering around the 1976 Olympic Football match between Poland and Ira…

The Room of Unlimited Possibilities

A soundscape of a woman’s voice layered over itself plays while a woman sits in a red light.

The Cry

Upon entering the space, a performer is forcefully reciting poetry while two men in black hoods silently watch on.

Tempest

‘What is the nature of Prosperos power?’ That was a question posed to a bright faced class of theatrical designers during a discussion of The Tempest.

Piano Project

Andreas Grassl is the piano man who washed up in Kent.

The Questionnaire

What starts off promisingly as a suspenseful yarn about a man trapped by some odd psychiatric cult (which seems to resemble Scientology in more ways than comfortable), devolves to …

Belt Up's 'Octavia'

Belt Ups interactive oeuvre is kind of perfect for childrens theatre.

Tailor of Inverness

Our history, and what wed wish our history to be.

Pedestrian

A nightmare that no one can wake up from, delving deeper and deeper into surreality.

Mirazozo

A hypnotic, atmospheric, environmental sculpture.

Beautiful Burnout

Every year theres about three or five Fringe shows that feel like they could open up on the West End tomorrow and do fine.

Stop, Look, Listen.

A neighborhood boy getting killed at an intersection.

La Locandiera

From the time you enter Vittoria, an Italian restaurant in New Town, you are greeted and accosted by a group of actors attempting to sound Italian.

10 Dates With Mad Mary

Mad Mary is a tough nosed, hard living, uncompromising girl trapped in a small town in Ireland who needs a date for a friends wedding.

Star Child

A young, game troupe telling a simple tale with some inventive staging makes for an enchanting bed time story.

Ladder and the Moon

A fort, a spaceship, a submarine, a bus; four things a large box can be in the mind of a child.

Good Death: Created in Collaboration with Tectonic Theater Project

Assisted suicide, euthanasia, murder.

101

In the Fringe guide, there is a lot of theatre which claims interactivity.

Something About Jumpers

A boy tossed through the revolving door of foster homes and department of family services.

Keepers

The loneliness of being a lighthouse keeper, even if you have a partner, would drive a person mad.

Allotment

A play about an allotment, in an allotment, drowning in metaphor with Beckettian transitions.

Power Plant - A Sound And Light Experience

Less a play, and more a very well curated group installation exhibition, Power Plant should mesmerize even the most callous of cynics.

Shadow Boxing

You enter a gym, before long, a man with fists of fury enters, training, punching, sprinting, bearing his soul.

Kaspar

The first time encountering civilisation.

Belt Up's 'Dreamscape'

As audience members, we are trained to see and hear, but what if you take away one of those senses.

Second Star to the Right

Oh! Youre too old! Dont let Peter see you! That was gently whispered in my ear as I entered the space for this choppy adaptation of Peter Pan.

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