Reviews & features: Issue 666
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Roadkill, The Author and 30 Days to Space worthy 2010 festival winners
7 Sep 2010
Steve Cramer's Festival blog
I know it’s not quite over, but with respect to the last couple of shows of the International Festival, now might be the time for the Festival’s final report card. This year’s Festival, if it has shown some good work, still creates the uneasy feeling of…
The Man Who Fed Butterflies
7 Sep 2010
Sporadically phenomenal spectacle lacks magic of theatre
Something Pixar, with their melange of spacemen, rat and sea creature protagonists, seem to have worked out fairly early on in the game is that it’s very difficult to emphathise with a CGI human face. The reason the human characters in the Toy Story…
Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension
7 Sep 2010
There is so much beauty here
It’s difficult to begin describing Songs of Ascension, a new(ish) work by composer, musician, artist and mercurial force of nature Meredith Monk, because it doesn’t fit cleanly into any of the nice, regular boxes we use to describe different kinds of…
Mitchell Museum and White Heath
7 Sep 2010
Edge Festival, Electric Circus, 11 Aug 2010
There some confusion early on tonight as to whether the five young guys occupying the stage are completing their soundcheck before the main act or or are the support act. As it turns out, it's the latter, and the youthful audience are treated to the…
The Sing-along Glee Club
7 Sep 2010
Hilariously silly, ridiculously twee and delightfully camp
Given the title of this show, one could be forgiven for assuming that its content would be that of the popular television show Glee which recently reached our screens from across the pond. On the contrary, ‘Sing-along Glee club’ provides an insight into…
Plan B
7 Sep 2010
Rap and hip hop and deep heart-felt soul
There is no doubt that Plan B's Ben Drew is an accomplished rapper and singer, but it's not until you see him live that you can appreciate how immensely talented he is. Many artists work across several genres, but very few have successful attempted…
Darcy’s Dilemma
7 Sep 2010
A must for all Austenites
Darcy paces a lavishly furnished regency chamber clad in dishy regency riding boots; this is a one-man show featuring the gentleman-hero himself. The script moves to and fro between quotations from Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and some original…
Barbershopera: Apocalypse No!
7 Sep 2010
A superb show full of dazzling vocals
In a hilariously funny show - where Satan’s horsemen adopt a jaded primary school teacher as their leader to incite the end of the world - the ‘three guys and a girl’ of Barbershopera tell the tale of Beth, a teacher, who is looking for the venue of one…
Phoenix
7 Sep 2010
HMV Picturehouse, Edinburgh, Sun 29 Aug
Despite a decade of history behind them, it’s 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix that has given French quartet Phoenix the ammunition to advance from special interest to mainstream concern. Now their delicate but euphoric pop – forging The Strokes…
Myth of the far-left agenda in Alastair Beaton's Caledonia
1 Sep 2010
Steve Cramer's Festival blog
In my last blog, I accused many of the companies engaging in the Fringe of lacking courage, and I’m sticking by it. You can always tell when there’s a political elephant in the room at a fringe, since invariably the more pusillanimous companies visiting…
Mission of Flowers
1 Sep 2010
The life adventures of aviator and dare-devil
A sell out in Soho and an award winning writer and director; Mission of Flowers is a promising choice this Fringe. It’s a one-man show telling the life adventures of aviator and dare-devil Bill Lancaster. Leof Kingford-Smith, as Lancaster, is an…
