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 […]
I Can Make You a Mentalist
Rating ** Reviewed by Alex Foott Performance date – Weds 31st July 2013 Having been given my own plastic wallet at the door containing a pencil, card and tin foil, I begin to get excited about the prospect of full audience involvement and the wonders that this show will hold. We are all well acquainted […]
My Pregnant Brother
Rating ***** Reviewed by Alex Foott Performance date – Weds 31st July 2013 Canadian theatre company Freestanding glides into the Edinburgh Fringe with a fresh one-woman show that flings together the themes of gender, identity and family and explores the combustion that ensues. Juxtaposing a level-headed approach to the increasingly sensitive matter of sexuality with […]