REVIEW: Losing Days, New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭
This is a brave performance, especially as Sam admits that, in his industry, people – especially men – don’t tend to talk about their problems.
This is a brave performance, especially as Sam admits that, in his industry, people – especially men – don’t tend to talk about their problems.
My Real Life weaves a spell that keeps you gripped throughout despite it being 90 minutes of Noel simply sat in an armchair speaking into a tape recorder. It has an aching poignancy and shows us how easy it can be to lose hold of the best things in your life without realising until years later.
Woke passionately alerts us to the ongoing struggle to overcome the historical flaws in American society over race that continue into the present day.
Sharply written and winningly performed by Barker-Wren, Cow provides plenty of laughs and visually memorable moments, sometimes verging on unashamed silliness
Dolan gives a powerfully underplayed performance, avoiding sensationalism but exploring the issues in a way that is unsettling and uncomfortable
Despite the intensity of the piece, Brutal Cessation is peppered with a dark wit which, judging my Thomas’s other Fringe play, Dust, is a trademark of her writing.
Directed by Ita Morrissey, Pulled is a little uneven but offers plenty of broad laughs, lifted by two engaging performers.
Secret Life Of Humans is a wonderful piece of storytelling that is thought-provoking and often funny, directed with élan by its writer David Byrne with Kate Stanley and devised by the company.