Paul T Davies reviews We Were Promised Honey at Roundabout Summerhall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
We Were Promised Honey
Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival
5 Stars
I'll cut to the chase. This is something really special. Storytelling of the finest, with a warm, welcoming narrator and the audience sharing the story telling in a collaborative, non threatening way! Sam Ward performs his script, improvising effortlessly with the audience, atmospheric lighting and sound moving us forward in real-time .
The meta theatre is extraordinary, he makes reference to the time of day, the outside world how we may feel in the final minutes of the show. We are told there won't be a happy ending. It's the story of the future, our future, a baby born in a lighthouse, a dying spaceship on the edge of a black hole, and Richard Russell, who, on August 10th 2018, stole an empty plane from Seattle- Tacoma International airport and flew it for an hour and fifteen minutes. It all sounds a bit disparate, but Ward recounts and brings the strands of his story together, letting the audience move the story on.
YesYesNoNo have produced another work of theatrical magic, and this early start will set your day up perfectly. Not to be missed!
Aug 12-15, 17-22, 24-28
Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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