Tag: Edinburgh Fringe

Mirrors To Society: Interview with Xhloe and Natasha

Xhloe and Natasha are gracing the Fringe once more with their presence and bringing all three of their consecutive Scotsman Fringe First - winning shows - And Then The Rodeo Burned Down, What If They Ate The Baby and A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson Or God : Whoever Reads This First - back to Edinburgh. But first, they penned a correspondence to Pepper&Salt detailing what happened before the rodeo burned down, who, what, why and how they ate the baby and who read the letter first, Lyndon B. Johnson or God.

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Will Robbins: With the Best Will in the World

Apart from Will Robbins’ penchant for the odd pun or one-liner, the majority of the muted humour in With the Best Will in the World lends itself to a rather stilted hour where we constantly fight to stop our thoughts from wandering elsewhere. 

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Eleanor Morton: Haunted House

The tenement walls of Edinburgh are full of ghost stories, multiples of haunted houses in the one city. In Haunted House, Eleanor Morton talks about just the one - the city at large- and the spirits that flock to its streets every August.

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The Screen Test

All that glisters is not gold in Bebe Cave’s The Screen Test, as she peels back the curtain on the mirage created by history and myth surrounding the film industry in the mid-1900s.

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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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