Tag Archives: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Cracked Tiles, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lorenzo Novani.

Just as other symbols of community seem to be disappearing from our streets and neighbourhoods, the local fish and chip shop is also in danger of becoming an outmoded and obsolete form of kinship that transcended class, age and wealth.

A trip to the chippy was for many the chance to catch upon the gossip and talk of the area, especially if they didn’t want to spend time in the public house, it was the place to eat cheaply but with respect and in the dark days of World War Two it was the only food source that wasn’t rationed. The local fish and chip shop seemed indestructible and yet as Lorenzo Norvani shows in his delightfully poignant production, Cracked Tiles, the days of the community enjoying such a valuable resource are fast approaching a critical juncture.

Cracked Tiles, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

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

The South Afreakins, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Robyn Paterson.

When you don’t feel safe in the area you have lived virtually all your life, do you try to change your location and begin again, be a stranger in another country, or do you try and change yourself, to try and feel the revolution that is going on around you and go with the flow? Either way you might lose something of yourself, something that makes you, you and it is not something you can ever regain.

The South Afreakins, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Bubble Revolution, Theatre Review. New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kasia Lech.

The problem with revolutions is that in the chance that they succeed, they will inevitably begin the process of being just a ravenous monster as the regime they swept away in bullets, bombs and prayers. Revolution of any type is fraught with the uncertainty of bread today, jam tomorrow, the mouldy crust the day after that, revolution is weighed down with expectation that cannot be fulfilled but it is nevertheless a state of political ultimatum that should never be ignored.

Bubble Revolution, Theatre Review. New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Carlotta de Galleon-A Fool for Love, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Charlotte Gallagher.

English Literature is awash with the heaving bosom of the heroine being swept off her feet by the man she thought was broken, dangerous, a heart ruled by anarchistic ritual and yet you won’t find that many books of the romantic nature inside Britain’s book shops, not unless you delve deeply into the classic section and realise that all those writers of a by-gone age knew something that that modern audiences, so full of sophistication and drowning in scepticism, have forgotten; that sex and romance sells like almost nothing else available to read.

Carlotta de Galleon-A Fool for Love, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 2016. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Just An Ordinary Lawyer, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tayo Aluko.

It can take a single moment to make a person’s life seem insignificant, to put down all their achievements with a dismissive sign of arrogance, of misplaced racial or gender inequality or presumed superiority, it can take that moment to possibly change that person’s life forever. Sometimes it can be though for the good as they strive on in their goal to become the better person, the one with ideals, honour and purpose in the community. Sometimes one just wishes to be an ordinary man, sometimes you become exceptional as Just an Ordinary Lawyer.

Just An Ordinary Lawyer, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Hummingbird, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Harriet Feeny, Francois Lecomte, Adam Gordon.

Murder always makes a good spectacle, it always seems to reach down into the very pit of human consciousness and allow even the strongest of moral citizens to subject themselves to nothing more than a titillated spectator, a background ghoul in which the perpetrator feels some weird affinity with. Murder is the biggest seller and when it committed by more than one person, when it is a conspiracy which involves defrauding someone of their life and their money, then the papers and the imagination, the talk and the gossip really salivate at the prospect.

Hummingbird, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Three For Two, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating  9/10

Cast: Alan Wales, Winston J. Pyke.

Three plays, two actors, one overwhelming emotion of having sat through brilliance, rarely does the mind allow for such thought to become noticeable as you are immersed within a production but as Groundswell Theatre’s Alan Wales and Winston J. Pyke present the three plays linked by a common theme, it is hard to ignore that voice in the pit of the stomach that dares suggest, that any audience would love the whole experience.

Three For Two, Theatre Review. Zoo, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Scorched, Theatre Review. Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robin Berry.

It is to be argued that it is only time that moves on, that human affairs and endeavours never seem to get beyond a point where the same battles are being waged, over the same land, over the same intolerable points. For the people of North Africa, for those behind the Middle East veil, the sands may shift with the wind but the human propensity for war is always very firmly entrenched in the damned and the destructive.

Scorched, Theatre Review. Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)