Edinburgh Festival Guide

Reviews & features: Paul Reid

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Man of Valour

8 Aug 20112 stars

Mime and punishment

Haven’t we been through this before? Wasn’t it some time in the 1970s we stopped being dazzled by mime artists? Didn’t we pretty quickly realise the means of telling a story are never as interesting as the story itself? It seems not in the case of…

Corn Exchange theatre company bring Man of Valour to Edinburgh 2011

27 Jul 2011

One-man action movie from acclaimed Irish company

It’s a scenario familiar to many. A lonely office worker tries to escape his humdrum existence, living out a fantasy world of swashbuckling make-belief and mind-blowing heroism. ‘Everyone can relate to it,’ says actor and co-writer Paul Reid. ‘It’s…