REVIEW: Meek, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Penelope Skiner’s play Meek now playing at the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Penelope Skinner
Masculinity In Crisis Examined In New Play Angry Alan
Multi-award winning playwright Penelope Skinner returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time since 2009 with the World Premiere of Angry Alan, her darkly comic and provocative new play about masculinity in crisis.
Critical revivals and London transfers for King’s Head Theatre spring season
Following hot on the heels of an audacious winter season, the King’s Head Theatre will show two critical revivals plus London transfers for three Edinburgh Fringe success stories between April and July. After the success of Trainspotting, artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, Adam Spreadbury-Maher returns to the director’s chair for Strangers in Between. First staged by Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in February 2005, Tommy Murphy’s play won the New South Wales Premiere literary award. Adam said: “I’m delighted to be bringing this brilliant play by one of Australia’s finest playwrights to audiences in London for the first time.” Before that, April will see the venue’s first full cabaret season, complete with on-stage tables and a pop-up bar to welcome hit cult musical Saucy Jacks and the Space Vixens, as well as a musical comedy taxidermy puppet show from avant-garde performance artist, Charlie Tuesday Gates; Sing For Your Life. … Read more
