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REVIEW: Thrones, Assembly - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
The show comes in at under an hour, and maybe it's time for the company to spread their dragon wings and expand the material- there was plenty of fire left a…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Love, Lies and Taxidermy, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭
The sell-out audience loved it and you will leave with a huge grin on your face! A solid gold feel good hit! The film version must be in the works?
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Allegro, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Thom Sutherland’s production of Allegro is a definite success, putting a positive gloss on a perhaps unfairly maligned play. It is intelligently directed, pe…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Growth, Roundabout at Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
This is a play about an issue many young men may not want to face- in fact the word cancer isn't spoken. Well worth checking out- then check them out lads! H…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Adler and Gibb, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
Challenging and intellectual, performed by a disciplined ensemble, this is what fringe theatre should be. You will either love it or hate it, but it is so wo…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Be warned, this is not a night at the theatre for the prissy or faint-hearted, the "Ladies" swear like sailors and the subject matter here is at times more l…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Us/Them, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭
Balloons become bombs, string restricts the space, the terror is worked out as a maths calculation. Haunting and mesmerising, this is the best the Fringe has…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Milk, Traverse - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭
Orla O'Loughlin's sensitive direction and Paul Meller's uncluttered design guides us through the need for love. Yes, some strands are left loose, but a terri…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Bubble Schmeisis, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
This is a warm, informative, lovely show, and you would do well to spend an hour at the baths!
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: A Good Clean Heart, Underbelly - Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭✭
Alun Saunder's beautiful script is not just bilingual, he also explores street language and bravado. Excellent direction and movement and a wonderful karaoke…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Steel Magnolias, Hope Theatre ✭✭✭
Easy, very funny, but ultimately underwhelming, Steel Magnolias is perhaps best left to the admirers of the film.
Sophie Adnitt
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FIRST LOOK: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro - Southwark Playhouse
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Naked Magicians, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
They are not afraid to be cheesy and corny, and fans of the buff male body will not be disappointed as they build to a satisfying climax (Sorry!)
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Eurobeat, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
If you're looking for subtlety look elsewhere. This is high camp influenced by Carry On, and no cultural stereotype is under exploited, and the show is all t…
Paul T Davies
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