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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews

The Edinburgh Fringe is underway!  For the month of August, Scotland's capital city plays host to the world's largest arts gathering, with an unprecedented 2,500 shows to choose from across the three-week festival.  To help you find your way through the crowded Edinburgh programme, our reviewers are hard at work across the city's 250 venues.  Here, you'll find all our latest reviews from Festival 2011.


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Peter Pan
Friday, 19 August 2011
4 stars

Leith on the Fringe (venue website)
Children's
16-21, 23-28 Aug, 10:15am-11:15am; 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 25, 28 Aug, 1:30pm-2:30pm
Reviewed by Rachel Hartley-Davison

 Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.

JM Barrie encouraged children to fly to magical lands in Peter Pan – and in this re-imagining of the story; ANGELS Aerials bring those dreams ever closer, with their superb production of this much-loved tale.

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Look Back in Anger
Friday, 19 August 2011

4 stars

C venues - C soco (venue website)
Theatre
3-14, 16-29 Aug, 7:10pm-8:30pm
Reviewed by Carmel Doohan

 Recommended for age 12+ only.

And there is the famous ironing board. The legendary ironing board that had 1956 Royal Court audiences gasping, so shocked were they that such a mundane object could reach their stage. Around it, a cramped Midlands flat where Jimmy, Alison and their flatmate Cliff live is recreated in perfect period detail.

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Seymour Mace: Happypotamus
Friday, 19 August 2011

3 stars

The Stand Comedy Club (venue website)
Comedy
3 Aug, 3:30pm-4:30pm; 5-14, 16-28 Aug, 2:20pm-3:20pm
Reviewed by Alice de Cent

 Recommended for age 14+ only.

Seymour Mace had a bad time at the 2010 Fringe, and he’s back this year to tell the story of his journey through depression. Happypotamus picks up this time last year, when Mace began his quest for happiness, and brings us up to date in an examination of the many places he has since tried to find it.

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Lineage: Prints by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie
Friday, 19 August 2011

2 stars

Edinburgh Printmakers (venue website)
Exhibitions
4-31 Aug, 1-3 Sep, 10:00am-6:00pm
Reviewed by Madeleine Mason

 Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.

For a show that places emphasis on its featured artists’ explorations of the use of line, Lineage at Edinburgh Printmakers offers little in terms of a new or exciting way to view this most basic of artistic devices. In fact, as the humble line has played a prominent role in many a great artwork over the years, it felt to me that using it as the central concept of an exhibition was akin to one of those infamous attempts to re-invent the wheel.

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What It Feels Like
Friday, 19 August 2011

4 stars

C venues - C too (venue website)
Theatre
4-21 Aug, 4:30pm-5:40pm
Reviewed by Carmel Doohan

 Recommended for age 14+ only.

What does it feel like to die? What does it feel like for love to fade, and how can we get it back? This is the story of a relationship gone wrong – a chance in a surreal afterlife to make amends. The script is very funny, the plot is deliciously twisted and the choreography is stunning.

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Sold
Friday, 19 August 2011

4 stars

Pleasance Courtyard (venue website)
Theatre
3-29 Aug, 11:10am-12:30pm
Reviewed by Alice de Cent

 Recommended for age 16+ only.

Largely based on interviews arranged by The Human Trafficking Foundation, and directed by Complicite Associate Catherine Alexander, Sold is a dynamic piece of theatre that explores the myriad forms of human trafficking.

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Roar
Friday, 19 August 2011

4 stars

C venues - C (venue website)
Theatre
3-15, 17-29 Aug, 8:45pm-10:00pm
Reviewed by Eve Nicol

 Recommended for age 12+ only.

London is calling and there's gin in the river! Dumbshow brings you the tale of Moll Cutpurse and her band of banshees, out for revenge and taking London by force with a wielded stiletto.

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Prepare to Be Tuned
Friday, 19 August 2011

3 stars

Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Comedy
3-29 Aug, 9:45pm-10:45pm
Reviewed by Lee Zhao

 Recommended for age 16+ only.

Ever since a certain act from New Zealand hit the scene, there's been a steady rise of parody music bands on the Fringe - the type that have a string of original, authentic sounding songs, except the lyrics have got all twisted. Anyone For Tennis? are Aussies, not Kiwis, but they're one of those acts: a headband-wearing acoustic duo, much like that other band (whose name I won't mention since I bet they get the comparison all the time).

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Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear
Friday, 19 August 2011

3 stars

Zoo Southside (venue website)
Dance and Physical Theatre
16-28 Aug, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Reviewed by Sarah Hill

 Recommended for age 16+ only.

Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear forms the second instalment of Stillpoint’s Triptych: Three Attempts at Love – a trio of solo works that, in the company’s own words, seek to traverse ‘the human predicament of the struggle to love.’ It helps to know this beforehand, as the intention of the piece will make far more sense. It may also explain why Steal Compass felt oddly directionless and incomplete, leaving me entertained and confused in equal measure.

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Double Act
Friday, 19 August 2011

3 stars

theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall (venue website)
Theatre
5-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 Aug, 6:10pm-7:10pm
Reviewed by Alice de Cent

 Parental Guidance. Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.

Off-stage drama abounds in the lives of Morecambe-and-Wise-style comedy double act Arthur Douglas and Eddie Adams. Set during their final days of their 1972 summer tour, Double Act goes behind the scenes and explores the joys and tragedies of the intricately-connected performers.

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