Tag: Edinburgh Fringe

Sent From My iPhone

Written by Nadia Fortini and directed by Catrin Ody, this particular play is set over the course of an all-nighter, as interns Lola (Natasha Vincent), Penelope (Maya Moravec) and Chad (Anzi DeBennedetto) clean out the physical office space and position that they’re competing for. The  relationships between these characters are very quickly and deeply established, and over the course of the show, they constantly shift and develope, to the point where the subtext of interactions between characters pretty much screams at us. There are quite lengthy periods where we are lulled into a kind of rhythm by the repetitive tasks - it suits the show well in creating a kind of realism in terms of establishing setting and context within a limited space and time, but these moments perhaps go on for longer than necessary and quickly move from novel. 

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Aunty Ginger: Finding Splashman

Aunty Ginger knows how to make an entrance, and the energy of Finding Splashman certainly starts at an electric place. The atmosphere then settles quite significantly as we’re then treated to a large portion of audience interaction, stand-up and the occasional satire, a very varied and occasionally muddled set.

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Holy Shit Improv

Improv is always a huge risk to go to as an audience member, just because there’s such a wild and fluctuating difference in quality that can occur. That being said, Holy Shit Improv is pretty much as safe a bet as you can make with this genre. I have never laughed as hard or for as long as I did during this show, there’s just no way to stop laughing at what occurs onstage. 

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My Blood

The wonderful thing about theater is that we can really build the world that we want with it, to draw and establish connections between topics that in any other format would be tenuous. The exception to this rule seems to be ALL Productions’ My Blood, and its connection to the Oresteia is perhaps as distant as the Percy Jackson films are to the books. 

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Sasha Ellen: My MILF-Shake Brings All The Boys To The Yard

My MILF-Shake Brings All The Boys To The Yard is a sarcasm-littered show where Ellen unpacks and openly discusses everything from the concept of MILF-dom to therapy, using visual aides to signpost throughout her show. In the use of the doctor’s report, there’s almost an attempt to explain the context behind the words of this report. This show certainly goes in unexpected directions before coming round again with a logic maybe only Ellen can see. The topics aren’t always engaging, but they’re certainly unique. She comes up with these elaborate jokes that come together very creatively at the end, a payoff she spends the entire showing setting up.

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