1+ week, 6+ day ago   (258+ words) festmag.com Stunning execution turns San Francisco Ballet’s simple concept into something enthrallingly beautiful Hardly a moment goes by during the 70 minutes of choreographer Aszure Barton and the San Francisco Ballet’s Mere Mortals where you don’t find yourself amazed at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) festmag.com Motherland’s Paul Ready makes his playwriting debut with a climate tale, but it’s the technical execution that truly excels In a rehearsal space like an ordinary community hall, seated in the round, an audience files in and waits…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (134+ words) Studied haplessness makes for a brilliant, satirical, physical comedy from Geoff Sobelle and co. A graduate from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to the Edinburgh International Festival, for which he’s produced the previous big hits Home and Food, Sobelle brings a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (164+ words) The Captain sees Adam Riches at the helm of another excellent, confidently unadorned sports comedy-drama The anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall, formerly a veterinary college, makes the perfect setting for a play about Victorian men’s ambition, hubris and faith in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (238+ words) festmag.com Review: Adam Flood: Life and Death of the Party Adam Flood’s relentless exploration of millennial anguish is bombastic, but in need of some fine tuning Processing his millennial angst through persistent beats and thirsty AutoTune, Adam Flood’s intense…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (89+ words) Kate Dehnert’s emotional show explores the fall-out from a ten-year relationship In a culture that’s joyfully embracing the ‘unhinged’, there’s no shortage at this year’s Fringe of radically open comedies featuring performers seeming to be right on the brink. Of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (157+ words) Zoe Wohlfield delivers a committed performance exploring grief as she stages a funeral for her furry best friend Zoe Wohlfeld’s dog Twinkles, we discover via a cutesy hand-drawn opening animation, has died. And with the twisty and baroque set of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (232+ words) festmag.com Rob Copland: ONE (more please) Rob Copland grapples with professional woes and becoming a father in his latest show Rob Copland didn’t want to be at this year’s festival he huffs. Coming hard upon his daughter being born…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (304+ words) festmag.com Review: Robin Grainger: Lemonade Robin Grainger makes his anticipated Edinburgh Fringe return with Lemonade Born in Aberdeenshire and now local to the Edinburgh comedy scene, Robin Grainger has seen previous successes at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (172+ words) Beckettian Aussie Absurdism from Sons of Susan Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford have created some wonderful, monstrous women in Shayna and Beverley, the stars of BIRDS. After a chance meeting in a beach-themed void, the pair chuckle and chain-smoke their…...