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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #30: Black is the Color of My Voice
Looks back at the life of a musician, singer, and civil-rights activist on what seems to be the eve of her father’s funeral.
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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #29: A Bohemian Life
★★★★☆ - Joyful The Bohemian Lyric Opera Company filled Edinburgh New Town Church with joy and show tunes for two days this Fringe with...
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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #28: The Spilling Cup
★★★★☆ - Bloody lovely “Hey, little uterus, can we work together?” Sasha’s plea to her capricious organ in Dracume Theatre’s The Spilling...
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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #27: Land Under Wave
★★★★☆ - Enchanting The Young Edinburgh Storytellers revive their acclaimed production Land Under Wave at this year’s Fringe, and it...
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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #26: After Shakespeare - Richard III
After Shakespeare: Richard III succeeds only in making a rather boring play out of what was an extraordinary life.
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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #25: The Pirates of Penzance
★★★☆☆ - Piratical The University of St. Andrews Gilbert & Sullivan Society brings one of their namesake’s most popular and enduring...
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rcmahar
Aug 24, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #24: Hysterical
★★★★☆ - Timely A whirlwind time-travelling trawl through the history of five “mad” women and the history teacher who awakened their...
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rcmahar
Aug 23, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #23: Ring That Bell!
★★★★☆ - Eternal Welcome to hell! Please be seated and give your attention to the orientation presentation on your eternal stay in the...
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rcmahar
Aug 23, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #22: Regina Vagina
★★★★★ - Smash Hosted by William “Shakey” Shakespeare Regina Vagina, a new historical comedy musical from Erstwhile Media, takes a...
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rcmahar
Aug 22, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #21: At Home With Will Shakespeare
★★★★★ - Sans nothing It’s a popular image of Shakespeare: the great Bard, bent over his desk, quill flying over parchment as he composes...
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rcmahar
Aug 21, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #20: Trial By Jury
★★★★☆ - Spritely Cat-Like Tread presents a spritely rendition of Gilbert & Sullivan’s one-act comic opera, Trial by Jury that entirely...
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rcmahar
Aug 21, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #19: Panto Macbeth
★★★★★ - Perfectly absurd It’s panto. It’s Macbeth . It’s Panto Macbeth . What more do you want? With an ensemble comprised of students...
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rcmahar
Aug 20, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #18: Well Played
★★★★☆ - Snappy Well Played from Josie Rose Productions is the kind of work you hope to see at the Fringe: new writing performed to a...
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rcmahar
Aug 20, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #17: Man of War: The Secret Life of Nadezhda Durova
★★★★☆ - Powerful With four actors sharing the title role, Man of War: The Secret Life of Nadezhda Durova from Acting Coach Scotland is a...
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rcmahar
Aug 20, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #16: Sam Blythe: Method in my Madness
Sam Blythe: Method in my Madness is an experimental one-man Hamlet that ultimately creates more questions than it answers.
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rcmahar
Aug 19, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #15: Caged
Confined behind bars before her audience, Isabella MacDuff takes to the stage to tell her own story.
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rcmahar
Aug 18, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #14: Hamstrung
The Yorick of Hamstrung is a being as existential as the appearance of his skull at a pivotal moment in Hamlet’s crisis deserves.
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rcmahar
Aug 17, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #13: Divided
★★★★☆ - Delicate “It’s not been twenty-four hours, has it? It’s been years— sixteen years.” In the midst of an argument, a husband shouts...
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rcmahar
Aug 15, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #12: TÁIN
Young Edinburgh Storytellers hold their audience rapt with TÁIN, a much-condensed adaptation of Ireland’s most famous epic tale.
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rcmahar
Aug 15, 20241 min read
EdFringe Review #11: Polishing Shakespeare
A thinly veiled response to the Play on! Project announced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015
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