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and then by bird trauma. (Voyeurs near him”, the anecdotes - and the undertow. The solo actor James EDITION #12: make good historians). It’s both actors’ skilful recreations - have a Whiteaker immerses himself in WED 14 AUG 2013 goofy and really rich in metaphor, quiet resonance that cannot fail to cheery childlike trainspotter Jimmy but the symbolism is sometimes touch your heart. just as he immerses himself in a unclear, the narrative making room Underbelly, Cowgate, until 25 Aug (not 14), ridiculous swimming rivalry with a THEATRE for pensive interpretative bits 2.50pm. child twenty years his junior. Jimmy where the women rage and confess tw rating 4/5 | [Sarah Richardson] conjures his beloved Allerton village and become birds. The songs are using only his grinning simplicity, SingleMarriedGirl (Heather fantastic, with Emily Kreider’s manic Northanger Abbey the audience (as townsfolk), and Bagnall In Association With holler leading their harmonies a giant model of a swimming pool Tasty Monster Productions) through dark, epic folk, including (Box Tale Soup) made of liquorice allsorts. We make This extremely light comedy about powerful original compositions Whether you’re a fan, a stranger, blank paper aeroplanes for him, one married woman finally making by Greg Hall. Shout out for the or even (like this reviewer) an and he reads love letters off them. steps towards self-discovery and a shadow puppetry, an entrancing outspoken critic of Austen’s His soliloquys to his damaged social life is occasionally amusing road trip and light violence. The work, you’re equally as liable lover Sue are incredible, eloquent, and certainly motivational. However, birds themselves are given a voice, to be enthralled by the brilliant, but through them Jimmy reveals fumbled lines and awkward scene the monsters empathised with and, dynamic and laugh-out-loud stage himself to be unbearably fragile, changes (a monologue with scene eventually, freed. adaptation of Jane Austen’s gothic based on a few cold comforts. This DAILY classic. Lavished with reams of changes, I ask?) makes it stilted, and Assembly George Square, until 25 Aug, makes his inevitable humiliation a little unbelievable. Meanwhile the 5.30pm. comedic virtuosity by the charming all the more brutal. Powerful, art of Noel Byrne and Antonia script is brimming with cheesiness, tw rating 4/5 | [Gavin Leech] bittersweet, wistful. Christophers, their amusing and and seriously, ‘chagrinned’? Do Pleasance Courtyard, until 26th Aug, people ever say that? It sounds inventive use of an ensemble of 1.15pm. The Uncanny Valley papier-mâché puppets breathes like Stephanie Meyer minus the tw rating 4/5 | [Gavin Leech] vampires. In fact, minus any drama (Superbolt Theatre) fresh life into Austen’s work. A futuristic and spectacularly Bristling with endearing, Henson- at all, with things only threatening Book Of Blakewell to go ever so slightly wrong, intelligent piece of theatre, that esque slapstick that at times SNAP OF THE DAY: Free Fringe theatre with ‘Captain Morgan and never even managing that. combines puppetry, powerful causes more than mere ripples (House Of Blakewell / Vicky Perhaps it’s a positive celebration movement and truly engaging of laughter, I don’t think anyone Graham Productions) And The Sands Of Time’ at Fiddlers Elbow. Photo: Natalia Equihua of the pointlessness of human acting. The endearing and loveable could have imagined that putting There’s no shortage of shows about life. But I found it hard to make meteorologist Wilson, played by Jane Austen and puppets together struggling performers, and plenty of the characters faces, as they drew Julius is longing to create, because myself care about the themes of Frode Gjerløw, falls in love with a could result in such an enjoyable comedies pairing a hapless neurotic 21st-Century Poe me in with their well timed humour, in all honesty it’s not too good. fashion choices, family history and robot, something the outside world end product. Indeed, this sentiment with an overreaching diva. ‘Book (Marty Ross) percussive rhythms and moments Vigorously physical, stereotypically, Facebook. can never understand. Gjerløw was evidenced by the cacophony of Blakewell’ is both of these, sort There’s an argument to be had that if not funnily, clownish and at least perfectly captures the movement, of superlatives that wafted through of – the undeniably talented musical of shock. I’d urge anyone to go the tales of Edgar Allen Poe are just theSpace on North Bridge, until 24 Aug performed with conviction, let’s facial expressions and emotions the exit corridor after the show had duo responsible joke up front that discover this thought provoking fine as they are, thanks. No need (not 11, 18), 8.00pm. hope his dreamed of clown show of a cripplingly awkward but come to its conclusion. any semblance of plot is only a classic for themselves. for re-inventing. But for what Marty tw rating 2/5 | [Amber-Page Moss] has a lot more to give than this one. staggeringly kind man. Honestly Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, until shaky frame for their existing setlist. Sweet Grassmarket, until 25 Aug, 9.00pm. Ross does with some of literature’s some of the best stage acting I have 24 Aug (not 11, 18), 2.15pm. Alice Keedwell has a strong voice tw rating 5/5 | [Eleanor Lang] most mystical and macabre works, Assembly George Square, until 26 Aug, The State Vs John Hayes 2.00pm. seen in years; the trio as a whole are tw rating 5/5 [Eddie Nisbet] and an operatic range, while Harry that is, make them sing with new Lucy Roslyn has taken on her impeccably polished and confident Blake is an accomplished pianist, No Holds Bard energy and beguile an audience all tw rating 1/5 | [Katharine Wootton] character so absolutely that her in their movements. It is a funny, My Village And Other Aliens with compositions knowingly riffing (Royale Productions) over again, I’m happy to make an black eyes burned with cold depth, heart-warming and intriguing show, on modern styles, music hall and exception. Offering different stories The Veil (Le Foulard) (Lucy (Terence Blacker) “What did you see, a one-man her uniquely strong voice ruling one that is so perfectly formed cabaret. Too often, though, they for different evenings, the poetically Hopkins) There’s only so much you can do Hamlet?” says Gran each year the audience. Latecomers and a it leaves the audience in awe. If descend into plodding recitative. re-worked ‘The Fall of the House of with a guitar, a ukulele, a stool and when I return from the Fringe. A satirical piece which plays with firework display outside couldn’t you see one piece of theatre at It’s unsophisticated satire taking Usher’ which I saw, manages, in its a glass of wine. But from these Michael Hurst trumps Nan’s wildest stereotypes and ideas about art possibly faze her. She played with the Fringe this year, choose ‘The aim at middle class attitudes, made modernisation, to still preserve and meagre tools Terence Blacker imaginings with a one-man Hamlet and theatre. The programme fails them. With themes of murder Uncanny Valley’. leaden with predictable rhymes and revere the original, even intensifying succeeds in evocatively crafting featuring Othello, King Lear and to describe this intelligent show and multiple personality disorder, Underbelly Bristo Square, until 25 Aug little discernible wit, and ultimately its impact. Physically sweating out a whole village: tittering gossips, Macbeth. An actor holds a gun properly. Lucy Hopkins presents Roslyn drew inspiration from real (not 12), 12.25pm. sounding hollow. For most, this will his enthusiasm for Poe, Marty Ross life cases to create a stark new village perverts and all. A decidedly to his head, then we’re whisked the audience with an assortment of tw rating 5/5 | [Alice Taylor] be a book worth keeping closed. delivers a bewitchingly good story script. A Death Row cell; details of more literary than theatrical event, on a disorientating excursion characters, including an egotistical, Underbelly Cowgate, until 25 Aug (not 7, that leaves a haunting reminder punctuated with witty if forgettable into the recesses of his disturbed self-proclaimed artistic genius the crime dripped, piece by piece, 14), 3.30pm long after the lights have gone in a Southern drawl. Having held The Love Project [Look Left folk songs, Terence paints the life mind, occupied by the characters and a melodramatic flamenco tw rating 2/5 | [Dave Fargnoli] down. out on these for an hour, the end is Look Right / Every Day] of a writer and his place in the local mentioned above. Bullying, abuse diva, each so different from the Paradise in the Vault, until 11 Aug, 5.45pm. bluntly abrupt. It seemed to promise Sometimes the most meaningful community. Trying a bit too hard to and torment ensues, comic relief is other that it’s easy to forget this something monumental, only to drama is not found on the stage, escape the strait-jacket stereotype Penthesilea provided by a boorish, Glaswegian tw rating 4/5 | [Katharine Wootton] is a one woman show! Hopkins’ have the lights suddenly go down. but in simple rhythms of everyday of the conceited author, the show (Playedes Theatre Company) Macbeth who casually fries up Lecoq school training is clearly evidenced by the way she moves Highly discomfiting, it still manages life. This is powerfully illustrated by consequently veers at times down Gripping theatre that explores breakfast whilst chatting to the Clown For Hire (Tick Tock with ease between characters, to drag from the audience twisted ‘The Love Project’: a moving and dangerously dodgy and rather passion, gender roles and power neurotic Hamlet. An Olivier-style Productions/ Assembly) remarkably switching physicality smiles and half-ashamed laughs.

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