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Monday, August 27, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: High North Movement by Charlie Ely

High North Movement was undoubtedly the strangest thing I saw at the Fringe all week. This is no mean feat, given that other productions included a Japanese re-telling of a Brecht musical se…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:28PM

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Cagebirds by Charlie Ely

David Campton’s Cagebirds is one of those plays that is shamefully not as well-known or acclaimed as it should be. Written in 1971, it combines absurdism with realism, detailed characters …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:20PM

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hearts on Fire by Charlie Ely

“You will feel as if you’re going to die, I guarantee that,” promises the poster for Hearts on Fire, a new piece of immersive theatre inspired by a real-life disaster at a spiritual re…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:15AM

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Cover by Charlie Ely

Cover is a witty and successful update of the traditional, British, domestic farce; its writer Ed J. Smith applies the genre to a group of early-twenty-somethings in contemporary London. Two…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:34PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Economist by Charlie Ely

Theodor Adorno wrote that “the name of disaster can only be spoken silently”, a tender summation of how atrocities can render words both useless and unwanted. And yet, this truth is co…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:29AM

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Crypted by Charlie Ely

A hundred years after his birth, Alan Turing and his work are finally getting the attention they deserve, with calls to put his image on the next batch of £10 notes, a petition to grant him…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:33PM

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Kiss Me and You Will See How Important I Am by Charlie Ely

Having myself been a crazy teenage girl not that long ago, I really wanted to love this piece. I too was an avid reader of Sylvia Plath, from whose writing this play takes its title. Yet…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AM

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hanafuda Denki (A Tale of Fantastic Traditional Playing Cards) by Charlie Ely

In the world of Hanafuda Denki the dead seem to show just as much life as the living. Not only do they run funeral parlours and help people on their journey to the underworld but they sing a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17PM

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: (remor) by Charlie Ely

(remor) takes place in what is probably the smallest space at the fringe: a 3 x 4 metre metal box. This box is actually ½ a metre longer than the original performance space – a cell in a …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27AM

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