Get Got
Rating ***** Reviewed by Alex Foott Get Got – Janski Productions Written by Stephen Faulkner, Nick Messitte & Colin Chaston Directed by Dominic Shaw Performance date – Sat 10th Aug 2013 A ripple of shock and concern blazes down the queue as an almighty bang echoes around the garden. The door to the auditorium almost […]
A Body to Die[t] For
Rating ** Reviewed by Alex Foott Book, Music & Lyrics by Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker Performance date – Thurs 8th Aug 2013 Finally! A musical that celebrates the female form in all its shapes and sizes! Just what we need to refocus our increasingly warped views of beauty. I see my thoughts echoed in […]
The Road to Qatar
Rating *** Reviewed by Alex Foott Thirty seconds into this piece and I am already gripping the edge of my seat in horrified anticipation. Before us, the cast are dressed in traditional Arabic clothing and are singing about (You guessed it!) terrorism. I locate the nearest exit, planning my escape, when suddenly I hear a […]
Wardens
Rating – *** Reviewed by Alex Foott Wardens – Schadenfreude Productions Limited Written and directed by Garrett Millerick Performance date – Sun 4th Aug 2013 Traffic wardens. Is there a more detestable marriage of words? If, like me, the very thought of them has you shrieking wildly with fury then Garrett Millerick’s latest satire will […]
The Autumn of Han
Rating ** Reviewed by Alex Foott The Autumn of Han – Red Dragonfly and Grist To The Mill Adapted and directed by Ross Ericson Performance date – Sat 3rd Aug 2013 There is always an awkward presence of traditional theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Festival is notorious for spawning the avant-garde and unexplored and […]
Life – Grist To The Mill
Rating ** Reviewed by Alex Foott Written and directed by Ross Ericson Performance date – Sat 3rd Aug 2013 Considering the title of the piece and the impressive biographies stamped across its programme, I walk into Life expecting a gritty and feministic satire. What actually lies in store is another beast entirely. Very quickly, we […]
Le Gateau Chocolat – I heart Chocolat
Rating ***** Reviewed by Alex Foott Performance date – Fri 2nd Aug 2013 A frisson of nervous giggling shimmers around the audience as Le Gateau Chocolat sweeps into the darkened auditorium. Beaming from beneath a glossy wig that would have the likes of Donna Summer and Diana Ross writhing with envy, he sashays on to […]
Ben Hart – The Outsider
Rating **** Reviewed by Alex Foott Directed by Anthony Owen Performance date – Fri 2nd Aug 2013 Ben Hart is, in his own words, ‘not your normal kind of magician’. He is revolutionary. Altogether a new species of conjurer, Hart is ready to ascend the throne. Gone are the days of the socially awkward illusionist, […]
Happy Never After
Rating **** Reviewed by Ed Theakston Happy Never After, Pleasance Below Good new writing is sometimes hard to find, so it is refreshing to see such a polished production at the Edinburgh Fringe in the form of Hannah Rodger’s Happy Never After. Directed by Luke Sheppard, it is an honest and touching look at the […]
Hope Light and Nowhere
Rating **** Reviewed by Alex Foott Performance date – Thurs 1st Aug 2013 The apocalypse has become one of the most fashionable themes in pop culture. Fascinated as we are with the annihilation of our own world, I was not expecting much originality from this piece. Thankfully, I was wrong. Andrew Sheridan’s latest work offers […]