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Fringe Reviews: Circa: Wolf, Garry Starr & Ascension
Circa: Wolf is an astonishing, feral acrobatic spectacle, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ Performers snarl at one another from across the stage, negotiating, imitating one another’s movements, and the ‘pack’ repeatedly forms and disperses, repelling any lone wolves that attempt to penetrate the fold. The choreography is charged with an unexpected intimacy, raw and animalistic, bodies…
Read MoreReview, All the Devils Are Here: ‘The violence is graphic and the threat of more never lets up’
Barnaby Roper’s British thriller All the Devils are Here wastes no time in setting its mood: the violence is graphic and the threat of more never lets up, says Holly Roberts. What follows plays out like Reservoir Dogs relocated to Uncle Monty’s Penrith cottage: a gang of criminals, fresh from a bloody money heist, are…
Read MoreEdinburgh International Festival: Mary, Queen of Scots, Orpheus and Eurydice & Book of Mountains and Seas
Dramatic, intimate, and visually striking – Sophie Laplane and James Bonas’s brand new ballet, Mary Queen of Scots, is a gothic reimagining of the young queen’s life, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★★ The story unfolds through the fragmented recollections of an elderly Elizabeth, brought to life by Swedish dancer Charlotta Öfverholm, and the curtains open on…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe Reviews: Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Monahan & Lorna Rose Treen
Miriam Margolyes is as outrageous as ever in her one-woman show, Margolyes & Dickens: More Best Bits says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ She doesn’t feel the need to introduce herself – ‘if you don’t know who I am, what the f**k are you doing here?’ – and she’s entirely justified. The audience cheer their approval and…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe, Raise the Barre: ‘A must see, it’s truly terrific’
Raise the Barre is explosive stuff. A must see, it’s truly terrific, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★★ It’s graduation day at a dance school presided over by a strict assessor. There are two troupes of dancers here, the female troupe dressed in classical ballet tutus, the male troupe dressed similarly but in an anarchistic way, black…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Dan Tiernan, Vittorio Angelone & Terence Hartnett
Dan Tiernan’s abrasive comedy style is at once hilarious and disconcerting, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ Dan opens his set with a scream, immediately turns to talk of ketamine, and then proceeds to riff on his divisive style. ‘Not for everyone this, is it’ he reflects, before accusing the hot-chocolate-drinking Café Nero patrons of stumbling into…
Read MoreFive star reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe: Glenn Moore & Boiler Room Six
No introductions, no preamble, Glenn Moore is off and running at a hundred miles an hour before he’s even on the stage, says Alister Tenneb. And strap yourself in because he doesn’t slow down for the next hour. ★★★★★ As well as being a regular on radio, Glenn will be recognisable to many from his…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: FLOP, Art of Andalucia & Cambridge Footlights
Arthur Hull’s FLOP has charisma by the bucket-loads, Frankie Reason says. ★★★★ Edinburgh-born Australian artist Arthur Hull delivers a musically impressive, engaging, and witty exploration of musical theatre’s greatest flops. Both exposé and love letter, Hull muses on the dubious opening choreography to Carrie, the pitfalls of theatre to screen, the consistently faulty formula that…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Baxter v The Bookies, Aideen McQueen & Flamencodanza
Baxter v The Bookies’ script is fast moving and very amusing, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★ The spot light turns on and there sits Baxter looking exactly as you would expect from a small-time compulsive horse racing gambler, slightly down on his luck but, like all gamblers, believing the wheel of fortune is about to turn…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Monstering the Rocketman, Find Me, Bitter Baby
The award-winning writer, Henry Naylor, is back at the fringe with Monstering the Rocketman and it’s a must see, Jeremy Welch says. ★★★★★ This production comes after his two award winning plays at previous fringes, Afghanistan is not Funny and Let the Bodies Pile. He doesn’t disappoint with this production. In this play we see…
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