Chris Davis Sweet Grassmarket, Aug 8 – 27 (3 / 5) Chris Davis returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with another solo show, this time a radical condensation of the film classic Apocalypse Now. Throughout the hour he plays the various characters that drive the plot forward, re-enacting famous scenes...
Review: 26.2
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Lucy McConnell Paradise in the Vault, Aug 16 – 19 (2 / 5) 26.2 miles is the distance Lucy McConnell thought she would never be able to complete in a single run. The show 26.2 is based on her personal experience of how she made it happen anyway. The story is simple and honest, with sacrifices...
Review: The Last Que...
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Stellar Quines Underbelly Cowgate, Aug 14 – 26 (3 / 5) The Last Queen of Scotland is not a regular autobiographical recount of playwright Jaimini Jethwa’s experience of being expelled from Uganda by Idi-Amin and her upbringing in Dundee. Directed by Jemima Levick, it is told by a woman...
Review: The Duke
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Hoipolloi Pleasance Courtyard, Aug 14 – 27 (4 / 5) With just a microphone and some self-triggered sound effects, Shon Dale-Jones spends an hour at a desk relating a story that seems too good to be true. As he attempts to rewrite a movie script over a weekend in 2015, he is distracted by a...
Review: Atlantic – A...
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Assembly Hall, Aug 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27 (3 / 5) The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Atlantic: A Scottish Story is one part of two collaborations between the school and the American Music Theatre Project. It follows a young woman, Evie (Caroline Lyell), who...