Tag Archives: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Souvenirs, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Walsh, Ellice Stevens, Oscar Owen, Kitty Murdoch, Tommy Loftus, Ella Tebay.

Children can be cruel, it is in their cruelty that they either learn how to be adults that care and show empathy or they descend like monkeys into the art of throwing faeces around to show bitterness and superiority over others. It is the state of such things that can also see a child rise to the point where they fit in more closely with the adult world and its often doomed relationships.

Souvenirs, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Cheque Please, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Madeleine Hardy, Nick Slater, Diderik Ypma, Libby Boyd, Genevieve Cunnell, Becca Jones.

It is the bill that can never be truly split, the one that becomes the sole reserve of the person to whom the experience has affected with greater clouded reasoning than another and the one that whilst people may want to go Dutch with you upon, to share in the bleakness that crowds the everyday, they also want to leave their own version of a tip firmly implanted in that person’s mind. The idea of asking for the Cheque Please, is one that is shrouded in air of finality and calculated judgement.

Cheque Please, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

The Missing Hancocks, Theatre Review. Music Hall, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Kevin McNally, Robin Sebastian, Susy Kane, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall.

Two microphones stamped with the discerning, almost foreboding B.B.C. logo stand at the front of the stage and five perfectly placed chairs are to be seen in the background, the sense of occasion was already palpable, the sound of quite a number in the crowd already rehearsing under their breath the theme tune to perhaps the absolute master of British Comedy in the last 70 years and his sensational programme written by the only two men who could truly capture and harness his genius. This was not just any old event at the Edinburgh Fringe, this was one in which the spirit of The Lad himself, Birmingham’s Tony Hancock, was given a new voice in which to thrill the crowd all over again.

The Missing Hancocks, Theatre Review. Music Hall, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Carol Ann Duffy. Studio 2, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The World’s Wife, the attention of the wrapped and poetic cool could not perhaps compete with the Edinburgh Festival’s more edgy and dark comedians, the abundance of plays or even the thought of a trek upon the extinct remains of Arthur’s Seat. However, for the poetic savvy, the ones who see instinctively the value in the power of words delivered by the exulted Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy as she looked her audience in the eye and read from a selection of her works, this was as close to a heavenly experience as could possibly be imagined.

Carol Ann Duffy. Studio 2, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(412 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

The Last Laugh, Theatre Review. Studio 2, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kier McAllister, Larah Bross.

Comedy can be personal, it has to be to be turned from the anecdotal moan down to the pub in front of a few well wishers and friends to the point of no return where you are stood a few feet away from people that you are about to open up about a significant portion of your life to. Comedy must be personal when it means you are going to exorcise a demon on a roasting furnace and get The Last Laugh.

The Last Laugh, Theatre Review. Studio 2, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

I Got Dressed, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Katherine Vince.

What secrets women hold in their hearts into which even a two and half year boy can feel intrigue in and yet by the time they have grown in men will have them scratching their heads at in perplexed and agonising astonishment at.

I Got Dressed, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

The Diary Of A Madman, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Robert Bowman.

In the end it doesn’t take much to make a person go mad and it’s not always the God’s who have the ability to do so before they destroy them, circumstances and love both can play their own distinctive part in the tragedy to come.

The Diary Of A Madman, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

The Communist Threat, Theatre Review. Zoo, Southside. Edinburgh. Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Holmes, Kieran O’Rouke.

Your enemies are honest, for you know they hate you and wish to destroy your life bit by bit, your friends on the other hand can be a little more circumspect, a little less reliable for in them can live the seething, beating heart of jealousy and in one swift movement, a single action of a non returned hand can reveal their action against you.

The Communist Threat, Theatre Review. Zoo, Southside. Edinburgh. Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Contemporary Circus Company Casus Visit The Black-E‏ This November.

Having wowed the crowds at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Australia’s new contemporary circus company Casus arrive in Liverpool with their stunning premiere work, Knee Deep this November.

Four performers explore the boundaries of strength and tenderness. Bodies are pushed and pulled, weighed and tested, probing the limits of both physicality and feeling. In Knee Deep, unlikely bonds are forged and acts of intimacy co-habit space with thrilling physical feats, as the audience is invited to re-imagine notions of limitation. Throughout this journey, the artists demonstrate that delicacy does not necessarily equate to fragility, although it is often a fine line to tread.

Contemporary Circus Company Casus Visit The Black-E‏ This November. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)