Saturday, August 10, 2013
(3/5) Miles Davis and John Coltrane are names which tower above others. At the height of their powers, these two men shifted the musical landscape on an almost weekly basis, constantly tryin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:43AMFriday, August 9, 2013
(4/5 stars) How best do we fight against something which we don’t agree with? Who decides who is a hero and who is a villain? What compromises do we have to make if we are to change anythi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:28AM(4/5) I’m so glad The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project exists. With the independence referendum looming and the possibility of an independent Scotland and (perhaps) independent England a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27AMThursday, August 8, 2013
(4/5) There’s a lot of Shakespeare at the Fringe. It’s a fairly smart way of getting in audiences and allows you a large amount of creative licence with a well-known play. I doubt there�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:14PM(4/5) I’ve always said that, if I could play any musical instrument, it’d be the saxophone. But after Anatomy of the Piano I think I’d now say the instrument of its title. If a measure…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:21AM(3/5) Jan van den Berg’s Higgs is more of a personalised lecture than a piece of theatre, but that is not necessarily a negative thing. Taking us through the way in which his own love of p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:26AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
(4/5) I saw Vladimor Tzekov Stage Action Laboratory’s Fantasy No. 10 – The Beauty of Life as part of a Best of BE showcase last year, albeit in a version which was a lot shorter and feat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:34PM(2/5) Steven Berkoff’s face isn’t as massive in real life as the adverts would have you believe. The gigantic billboards and posters around the city promote the mythology of Berkoff as a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:11PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
(3/5) Around halfway through Jethro Compton’s The Bunker Trilogy production of Macbeth, fireworks start going off signalling the end of the Tattoo. It feels fitting that, in a production w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:44PM(4/5) Early on in How to Occupy an Oil Rig, Daniel Bye tells us that this is a show “about demonstration that takes the form of a series of demonstrations”. Within this description is th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:43PM(4/5) To avoid confusion, Bonanza isn’t really a piece of theatre. It involved no live performers, and is more a documentary film presented in an experimental way. But it’s br…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:35PM(4/5) Tourniquet 2013 sometimes feels more like a dream than a piece of theatre. Performed late at night in Summerhall and moving slowly between vignettes like a slowly shifting film, it is …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:27AMMonday, August 5, 2013
(1/5) I’m sure the intention of Lincoln Company is to shock. They use all the tricks in the book, from hissing in audience members’ ears to licking our feet and portraying an angry orgy …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12PM(3/5) After What Comes Before is the first of many science shows on my Edinburgh schedule this year. It follows three scientists who are attempting to build a game-changing ‘machine…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01PM(4/5) “The foehn effect is a phenomenon weather created by the meeting of the atmospheric circulation and relief when a prevailing wind is driven over a mountain range and down …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:58PM(4/5) Andrea is seemingly a normal girl. She has her hopes and dreams, spends lots of time thinking about boys and has a complex relationship with her mother. But she’s certainly not lucky…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:29PM(3/5) With recent news stories about the families of Tony Nicholson and Paul Lamb losing their right-to-die challenges, the time is as good as ever to debate the issue of assisted suicide an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:22AM(3/5 stars) At the centre of Cadre, Omphile Molusi’s play about growing up in a conflict-filled South Africa, running forms a central motif. Throughout his life – the play spans 50 y…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMSunday, August 4, 2013
(2/5) In Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35mm: A Musical Exhibition, objects dangle off two huge picture frames hung either side of the stage. Throughout the show, they are plucked as a projection cyc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:29PM(2/5) I think David Cameron would quite like I’m With the Band. Written by Tim Price and directed by Hamish Pirie, it uses a band (all male, may I add) to address the state of the union in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:59PM(4/5) Let’s get this straight: David Greig’s The Events is not ‘about’ the Norwegian massacre committed by Anders Breivik. It uses the event as a source of inspiration and attempts t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:22PMSaturday, August 3, 2013
(3/5) What happens when we break boundaries and stray further than we ought to? Antler Theatre suggests that, though there may be consequences, the pay-off of adventure is worth it and the f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:12PM(3/5) We in the UK have always had a strange fascination with Death Row. The idea of capital punishment is so alien to us that its presentation seems gloriously out-of-bounds. This is partly…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMFriday, August 2, 2013
(3/5) The beginning of Limb2Limb’s Circles starts out by questioning gender norms, as a girl finds a box of toys before giving her sleeping brother the cars whilst she goes off to play wit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:13PM(3/5 stars) With al-Megrahi and Gadaffi dead, many may assume that the debate surrounding the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie is now over. Kenneth N. Ross’s The “…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:37AM 
