screenGRAB Festival Issue – Week 3 Reviews
A Slackers Guide to Western Theatre, Chris Payne Productions
A comic escapade that journeys from the Greeks to contemporary playwrights through the medium of mockery, parody and spoof. From Aeschylus to Shakespeare, Chekhov to Pinter, we make fun of them all.
Bedlam Theatre, running until 28th August, 11.30am. Full price £7 concession £6.
An Actress Prepares, Irina Dive
Her words speak louder than the iconic image! What does it take to become an icon? You will never know until you come to see this surprising and revealing adaptation of Marilyn Monroe’s last ever interview.
Zoo Roxy, (run ended)
Anthony Burgess ‘A Clockwork Orange’, Fourth Monkey Theatre Company
Fourth Monkey presents Anthony Burgess’ seminal, often violent, yet timeless tale concerning an individual’s right to freedom of choice.
theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson, (run ended)
Cannes, Newcastle University Theatre Society
Set during the world’s most illustrious film festival, an award-winning writer punches an old friend on the red carpet. Backstage, he is forced to confront his past relationships armed only with his dry wit and an even drier whiskey.
Sweet Grassmarket, (run ended)
Dildon’t!, Casual Violence!
Have you seen the Exocet? An antique dildo stolen from a second-hand sex toy shop is being used for a series of violent murders… Surreal, sinister and silly comedy from the Casual Violence! collective.
theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson, (run ended)
Hacker and Muldoon, Hacker and Muldoon
The script is unfinished. Muldoon has no idea, Hacker has no time; they make no progress. Many arguments and much bickering later – still no further along with it – proceedings take a sinister turn…
The Vault, (run ended)
Mark Allen’s Go Slow, Best Medicine Management
Is the relentless pace of modern life making you swear at dawdling strangers? Or huff at non-moving transport? Me too. That’s why I staged a month-long ‘Go Slow’. Here’s what happened.
GRV, running until 29th August, 4.40pm. Full price £5.
Mysterious Skin, Em-Lou Productions and Neil Sheppeck
Searing, explicit exploration of sexuality, desire and the unlikeliest of friendships. Brian and Neil’s lives link to unlock the past. Based on the bestselling novel and the cult film.
Gilded Balloon Teviot, running until 30th August, 1pm. Full price £9 concession £8.
Stitched Up, Broken Holmes Productions
Victor Frankenstein is a recovering mad scientist. Just one more monster and he’ll be clean. A bitterly comic take on Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, from the author of 2009 sell-out ’Broken Holmes’.
theSpaces @ Venue 45, running until 28th August, 9.40pm. Full price £8 concession £6.
Suspicious Package, Fifth Wall in Association With The Brick Theater, New York
Following a sold-out run in NYC, this interactive experience uses iPods to immerse you into the gritty world of film noir, where not everything is black and white
C too, running until 30th August, on the hour from 12pm-7pm. Full price £8.50 concession £7.50.
Tales from a House of No Windows, Achlemy Troupe
Alchemy Troupe returns to the Fringe with its haunting compendium of original performances. Three chapters intertwine, using live music, movement and multimedia to tell stories ranging from the tragic to the ludicrous. Prepare for bewilderment.
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, running until 29th August, 3.45pm. Free event.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 3BUGS Fringe Theatre
Brecht’s play retold like never before. The classic tale is energised through a fusion of music, puppetry and physical movement, bringing alive this moral yet comic masterpiece.
The Zoo, running until 30th August, 6.30pm. Full price £7.50 concession £6.50.
Tim Key – The Slutcraker, Invisible Dot Ltd
Key (lazy) is just doing six nights this year (lazy) with the same show as last year (go with what you know; creature of habit). Key (repugnant, studious, thirties) is the scaven poet-figure from ‘Newswipe’.
Pleasance Dome, (run ended)
Tristram Shandy, Reverand Productions
He’s an opinionated man with a passion for storytelling. Join him and a cast of colourful characters as they encounter the laughable, the loveable and the downright bizarre in their quest to discover what life is all about.
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall , (run ended)
Up2D8, Thorablot/PBH’s Free Fringe
Get ‘Up2D8′! Fringe First award-winning American playwright, Laura Shamas, explores the meaning of 21st-century dating through nine diverse comic monologues – from the promise and pitfalls of internet dating to biological clocks and the self-help industry. A UK premiere.
Sin Club and Lounge, running until 26th August, 3.10pm. Free event.
@Virtually_Real, Roundhouse Theatre Company
The place: cyberspace. A group of people linked by their need for their lives to be other than they are. A play about what happens when the virtual becomes real and actual damage is done.
Assembly @ George Street, running until 30th August, 1.15pm. Full price £10 concession £8.
What Would Helen Mirren Do?, Anita Parry/parrymelia productions
Susan’s up for promotion at the supermarket; can Helen Mirren really teach her about team leadership? A one-woman multi-character comedy about love, work, letting go and finding out who we really want to be.
Hill Street Theatre, (run ended)
Wolf, Authentic Artist Collective
Let us prey. Theatre for the senses exploring ecology/psychology/mythology of wolf/human relationships. Sexy, unpredictable, magical journey in Edinburgh’s atmospheric caves. It’s about our ears, all the better to hear you with. And noses, all the better to smell you with. And how we understand the pack, the loner and our place on the planet. Who is afraid of the Big? Bad? Wolf?
Just The Tonic at the Caves , running until 29th August, 12.15pm. Full price £8.50 concession £7.50.
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