Reviews
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Between The Sheets, Underbelly – Review
An entertaining night that will leave you charged with positivity and high sex appeal levels.
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Edward II, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review
An epic condensed down to its bare bones and effectively told; a good retelling.
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Loot, The Park Theatre – Review
Side holdingly, eye wipingly funny, gloriously uncut production of a rarely staged masterpiece of humour and language.
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Fix, Underbelly Cowgate – Review
Pros: The sing-along moment that shows in practical terms the process of dopamine release that the play is all about. Cons: With its hour-long running time, this lively show left me wanting more. When we do something we like, our system…
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Whore: A Kid’s Play, Greenside @ Infirmary Street – Review
Pros: Outrageously funny. Cons: The brazen jokes about sex and religion are for an adult audience. Whore: A Kid’s Play is not a comedy for the faint-hearted. Exploring serious matters like family, religion and sexuality through the eyes of three thirteen-year-olds, it…
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Woke, Gilded Balloon Teviot – Review
Pros: Apphia’s mellow storytelling and powerful singing are a perfect combination. Cons: Some background knowledge of African-American history is beneficial. Opening with a live cover of the popular jazz song St. Louis Blues, Woke moves the audience with a tale of two…
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Under My Thumb, Assembly Roxy – Review
An emblematic and visually strong play about female victims of abuse; prepare yourself to be shaken.
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Last Clown On Earth, Pleasance Courtyard – Review
Pros: Arresting images and dark humour. Cons: A clown in existential crisis inevitably produces a show light on belly laughs.~ For the first half an hour I was baffled. I’ll admit that I had been expecting more of a twinkly…
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Slapstick, Assembly George Square Theatre – Review
Pros: Charming, hilarious clowns, who also happen to be virtuoso musicians. Cons: The section with the projection didn’t work well, and made the energy drop. The children in the audience are part of what makes a clown show, and this…
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Deadly Dialogues, C Venues – C – Review
Multiple stories present different aspects of modern Islam; the outcome is thought-provoking but its potential is not fully realised.