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Dead Animals

 
Roger Kay Review by Roger Kay 1 Published: 17 Aug 2024 theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall Show Dates: 12 Aug 2024-24 Aug 2024

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be a brutal environment. There are thousands of productions competing for attention and not everyone can return a winner.

The production needs to be urgently and drastically rethought

The ambition and exuberance of a young company coming to Edinburgh for the first time, therefore, has to be admired.

However, much as I wanted to like Dead Animals, the production needs to be urgently and drastically rethought.

The premise, the script, the performances, the relationships, the staging and the direction all require root and branch rework. It is sincerely hoped that this very likeable cast and crew return another day.

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A surreal journey about reconciling with grief through the natural world. Jesse returns to the cottage he grew up in with a photo and cardboard box. The land is just as he left it, and his grandmother is brash as ever, but why did it take him so long to come back? Dead Animals uses vibrant soundscapes and fast dialogue to awaken nature and transport us the muckiest four miles in all of Canada. From award-winning Canadian playwright Jesse Stong comes a lively and heartwarming new play about returning to the place we left our loved ones.