REVIEW: Tremor, Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Tremor now playing at Roundabout at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Fringe
Brad Birch
REVIEW: Black Mountain, Roundabout @ Summerhall ✭✭✭✭
Black Mountain is another strong production from Paines Plough. The dialogue whips along in this well acted production.
Paines Plough plays transfer to Orange Tree after tour
Four productions by leading theatre company Paines Plough are to transfer to London’s Orange Tree Theatre after touring. Black Mountain by Brad Birch, Out Of Love by Elinor Cook and How To Be A Kid by Sarah McDonald-Hughes will transfer to the theatre in Richmond in a co-production with Plaines Plough, Orange Tree Theatre and Theatr Clwyd. They will run from January 22 to March 3, 2018. The three plays – part of Paines Plough’s pop-up Roundabout theatre programme – will be preceded by the company’s global phenomenon Every Brilliant Thing which will play at Orange Tree Theatre from October 9 to 28, 2017. Black Mountain, Out Of Love and How To Be A Kid are currently being previewed at Theatr Clwyd in Mold in Flintshire from June 24 to July 22 before opening in Roundabout @ Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from August 4 to 27. After … Read more
Poleroid Theatre Brings Play About Home To Vault Festival
Following an acclaimed debut performance at the 2016 Latitude Festival, Poleroid Theatre bring their latest work This Must Be The Place to the 2017 Vault Festival from 8 – 12 February 2017. This first-time collaboration between Pinter Commission winning Brad Birch and BAFTA-nominated Kenneth Emson, This Must Be The Place follows Adam, a young Londoner in the midst of crisis, desperately tries for a clean break from technology, love, connectivity and the pressures of city life in an attempt to find home. A million miles away, or perhaps not so far, two friends try to start again in the big smoke as fugitives from their problems but find they are still waiting on the margins. This Must Be The Place expertly interweaves these two stories together but director Justin Audibert also leaves audiences to make their own connections between the plays and character’s stories – are they intertwined or aren’t … Read more
