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Continue reading →: Dark Play or stories for boys by Carlos Murillo.
Dark Play or stories for boys is grounded in our social media generation although the original text was published in 2007. Chat rooms, cybersex and absolutely nothing you see areas it seems. Carlos Murillo has encapsulated it all in this extremely “dark” play. Nick likes “to make shit up” if…
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Continue reading →: The Long Road
The Long Road tells the story of a family torn apart by their son/brother stabbed to death outside a shop. In order to get closure and answers meeting his killer appears to be the only way forward! But at what emotional cost can the family agree on this! The themes…
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Continue reading →: The Dandelion Patch devised by the Company and Alan Cameron.
The production of The Dandelion Patch has been created to raise awareness around three families affected by mental health problems through serving within the armed forces. Dandelion is the symbol for the children from the families of the armed forces. In each of the three families featured in the play,…
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Continue reading →: 11+ presented by Rosy Beard Company.
11+ on an opening afternoon was an intimate one to one lesson. Rosy Beard has created an interactive based show where the audience is asked to become 10-year-old children as they participate in an educational session about being a private tutor for the 11+. Covering the controversial topic of the…
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Continue reading →: Naughty Boy by Eddy Brimson.
Best-selling writer and comedian Eddy Brimson brings to life Joe in his one-man play Naughty Boy at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. From my understanding, it has been set in a psychiatric hospital. Where nurses are serving the wards rather than prison officers in the environment in which he is…
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Continue reading →: Mandy Muden:Is Not the Invisible Woman.
Multi-award winning female magician Mandy Muden starts her show as she means to go by magic and appearing out of thin air. After being the 2018 semi-finalist in Britain’s Got Talent she has bought her new show to Edinburgh Fringe for 2019. When ladies reach a certain age they appear…
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Continue reading →: Buzzing by Debbie Bird
Debbie Birds new Edinburgh show Buzzing tells the story of Julie. Recently separated from her husband of over twenty years. Life back in the single market isn’t what she had planned as she approached 50. How do you rebuild your life after such a long time with the same sexual…
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Continue reading →: How to Mend the World (with a student play) by Drunken Brainstorm.
Drunken Brainstorm would have been the perfect title for this production of How to Mend the World (with a student play). The fast-paced comedy performance is set as a group of budding actors brainstorm ideas to take their ideas in front of a funding board for twenty thousand pounds to…
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Continue reading →: The Heresy Machine by Dmitri Barcomi and Seth Majnoon.
The movement-based play The Heresy Machine is a queer cyborg fictional love story set between Alan Turing and his computer that he names Baby. The original musical score by Eamon Goodman integrates with the worlds first computer-generated music with his composition. It’s extremely clever and the voice of the computer…
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Continue reading →: Teach by
The powerful semi-autobiographical production by Matthew Robert’s at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Teach is a “warts and all” fast-moving play about his experiences inside and outside the classroom. Smattered with shocking statistics and an insight into how unsupported teachers are by parents, the wider community and the least of all…












