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5 star shows
Hotel Medea
(15 Aug 2011)
A killer night out
The Tempest (14 Aug 2011)
Anarchic comedy showcases Korean theatrical traditions and retains spirit of the original
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut (21 Jul 2011)
Morag Fullerton's stage adaptation is a charmingly chaotic classic
4 star shows
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
(24 Aug 2011)
Haruki Marukami's novel is given multimedia stage adaptation by Stephen Earnhart
3rd Ring Out: the Emergency (23 Aug 2011)
An intelligent audience-led thriller
And the Birds Fell from the Sky (23 Aug 2011)
Striking multi-sensory experience
Bette and Joan - The Final Curtain (23 Aug 2011)
Witty other-worldly ode to Hollywood starlets
Constantinople (23 Aug 2011)
Completely ridiculous and unexpectedly educational
Hotel Methuselah (23 Aug 2011)
Stunning and inventive multimedia production
Little Matter (23 Aug 2011)
Charming, dark puppetry
Maybe if you Choreograph Me, You Will Feel Better (23 Aug 2011)
Solo show with a unique personal experience
The Overcoat (23 Aug 2011)
All-Scottish cast lead excellent classic satire
Some Small Love Story (23 Aug 2011)
A gem with a young but talented cast
Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear (23 Aug 2011)
Minimal and moving life awakening
Sunday in the Park with George (23 Aug 2011)
Wonderfully presented look at the creation of art
I, Malvolio (22 Aug 2011)
Revisiting Shakespeare’s maligned steward
One Thousand and One Nights (22 Aug 2011)
Flagship EIF production feels like a rediscovery of a lost classic
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik (19 Aug 2011)
Poignantly Pixar-esque underwater adventure
Bash (19 Aug 2011)
Utterly convincing and compelling
An Instinct for Kindness (17 Aug 2011)
Dignitas tale told with dignity
Beowulf – A Thousand Years Of Baggage (17 Aug 2011)
Postmodern interaction with a classic
Crunch (17 Aug 2011)
Cunning manipulation of attitudes to money
The Dark Philosophers (17 Aug 2011)
Dark Welsh classic given a postmodern twist
Federer Vs Murray (17 Aug 2011)
Geopolitics, war and tennis
Bane 1, 2 and 3 (16 Aug 2011)
Superior noir-influenced multi-character comedy
Jus’ Like That! (16 Aug 2011)
Recreates Tommy Cooper's final performance
Translunar Paradise (16 Aug 2011)
Moving portrayal of the pain of bereavement in dance, accordion and voice
3D Hamlet: A Lost Generation (12 Aug 2011)
Strong acting secures the Bard a place in the 21st century
You Once Said Yes (12 Aug 2011)
Exhilarating interactive experience
Allotment (11 Aug 2011)
Sweetly observed play taking place on a real allotment with free cup of tea
Anton's Uncles (11 Aug 2011)
Chekhov remixed as a highly entertaining divertissement
Belleville Rendez-vous (11 Aug 2011)
Inventive adaptation of Gallic animated classic
Bones (11 Aug 2011)
Honest examination of real life on the dole
The Girl With The Iron Claws (11 Aug 2011)
A fairytale for grown-ups
Lounge Room Confabulators (11 Aug 2011)
Aussie troubadours paying home visits
Ten Plagues (11 Aug 2011)
Intense, moving Marc Almond-starring plague musical strikes a chord
The Wheel (11 Aug 2011)
Innocence lost in war-torn Spain
Shylock (9 Aug 2011)
Gareth Armstrong and Guy Masterson take us behind the mask of Shakespeare’s Jew
Generation 9/11: So Far / So Close (8 Aug 2011)
Captivating and quietly profound one-man show
The Oh Fuck Moment (8 Aug 2011)
Uneasily entertaining afternoon of reflection on human frailty
One Night Stan (8 Aug 2011)
Excellent one-man show based on life of Stan Laurel
Alma Mater (8 Aug 2011)
Immersive, lovely look at childhood innocence and loss
Minute After Midday (8 Aug 2011)
Pared-down performance based on Omagh bombing
Roar (8 Aug 2011)
Stylish, sexy romp is frequently hilarious but not without emotion
Simon Callow in Tuesday at Tescos (8 Aug 2011)
Transgender monologue that’s dressed to kill
101 (8 Aug 2011)
Group hugs, cult chants and it’s all your fault
The Table (8 Aug 2011)
Puppet show silliness backed up by serious skill
A Slow Air (8 Aug 2011)
Nationhood explored and deplored
Death Song (8 Aug 2011)
Intense story of loss and secrets
Elegy (8 Aug 2011)
Moving story of a flight from persecution
I Hope My Heart Goes First (8 Aug 2011)
Remarkable young company delves into matters of the heart
Mission Drift (8 Aug 2011)
The TEAM achieve the huge, soaring size of their ambitions
Spent (8 Aug 2011)
Razor-sharp agit prop satire
Whistle (8 Aug 2011)
Extraordinary true-life tale
3 star shows
If That's All There Is?
(26 Aug 2011)
Eccentric study of a banal relationship
The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding (26 Aug 2011)
A cure for loneliness?
Nourish (25 Aug 2011)
Thought-provoking suffragette drama
The Simple Things in Life (24 Aug 2011)
Five opportunities to meditate on what we should value
Eight (23 Aug 2011)
Eight beautifully-written stories impressively told
Cul-De-Sac (23 Aug 2011)
Capable garden-fence comedy
Dan Canham: 30 Cecil Street (23 Aug 2011)
A theatre's story told through unusual interpretation
Doris Day Can F**k Off (23 Aug 2011)
Musical one-man experiment
Hedda Gabler (23 Aug 2011)
Stark and surprising modern adaptation
Silken Veils (23 Aug 2011)
Tenderly performed memories
Unanswered, We Ride (23 Aug 2011)
An emotional portrait of grief
The World According to Bertie (23 Aug 2011)
A well performed, interestingly staged production
Yours, Isabel (23 Aug 2011)
Strong script brings together romance and female independence
The Fall Children (22 Aug 2011)
Weak storyline made up for by macabre, colourful underworld
May I Have the Pleasure . . . ? (19 Aug 2011)
Champagne, slow dancing and loneliness
Viewless (19 Aug 2011)
Paranoid Orwellian bureaucracy has comically sinister effect
(g)Host City (18 Aug 2011)
Edinburgh audio tours from spoken word performers
Dust (17 Aug 2011)
Mining a rich seam of anger among Thatcher and coal industry
Emergence (17 Aug 2011)
Death becomes the Pachamamas
Futureproof (17 Aug 2011)
A fairly unshocking freak show
Medea's Children (17 Aug 2011)
A cautionary tale for divorcing parents
The Time Out (17 Aug 2011)
Interactive theatre with a motivational aspect
The Translator's Dilemma (17 Aug 2011)
Dark, taut work about industrial negligence
Untitled Love Story (17 Aug 2011)
Stories of love and loss that fail to catch fire
Matthew Highton's Shadowed Vagary (16 Aug 2011)
Warm, intelligent and beautifully written tall tale
Paper Tom (16 Aug 2011)
Effective piece of issue-based theatre dealing with UK treatment of soldiers
Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship (16 Aug 2011)
A university relationship conducted via Facebook
Rose (16 Aug 2011)
Oblique drama on father daughter relationship partly successful
Scottish Sperm (16 Aug 2011)
Smartly scripted and well performed despite lack of character sympathy
The Sexual Awakening of Peter Mayo (16 Aug 2011)
Quirky characters and quick-fire dialogue
The Star Child (16 Aug 2011)
Sweet piece of storytelling theatre
Tales from Edgar Allan Poe (16 Aug 2011)
Ghost stories told with vigour and energy
Tea with Queenie (16 Aug 2011)
Very moving tragic-comic piece for three people, including tea and cake
Tonight Sandy Grierson Will Lecture, Dance and Box (16 Aug 2011)
Cultural and political history piece leaves deep impression
Two Johnnies Live Upstairs (16 Aug 2011)
Eccentric characters each nook and cranny of French family home
The Wright Brothers (16 Aug 2011)
Conquest of flight given lively treatment
4.3 Miles From Nowhere (14 Aug 2011)
Good performances and brilliant live folk band but no dramatic stakes
Belt Up’s Twenty Minutes to Nine (14 Aug 2011)
Compelling performance with uncertain audience-actor dynamic
From the Fire (14 Aug 2011)
Tightly directed show based on New York’s Triangle Factory Fire of 1911
I, The Dictator (14 Aug 2011)
Enjoyable one-man performance on encounter between Charlie Chaplin and Hitler
King Lear (14 Aug 2011)
Engaging spectacle gives Shakespeare a Jingju interpretation at 2011 EIF
The Golden Dragon (12 Aug 2011)
Global stories to take away
King of Scotland (12 Aug 2011)
Strong presentation of Iain Heggie’s second best monologue
Audience (11 Aug 2011)
Ontroerend Goed slip out of the major league with cynical show
Blood and Roses (11 Aug 2011)
Multi-sensory journey with history’s courageous women
Cutting the Cord (11 Aug 2011)
Tragicomedy exploring immigration via young Japanese woman in London
Snails and Ketchup (11 Aug 2011)
Dynamic one-man Calvino adaptation
Turandot (11 Aug 2011)
A radical completion of Puccini's unfinished opera
Lord of the Flies (10 Aug 2011)
William Golding’s classic novel slightly adjusted for modern times
Thirsty (9 Aug 2011)
Powerful physical evocation of the relationship between women and alcohol
The Billie Holiday Story (8 Aug 2011)
Enjoyable insight into a unique talent
Dream Pill (8 Aug 2011)
Poignant insight into the unsettling reality of sex work in the UK
Nobody’s Home: A Modern Odyssey (8 Aug 2011)
Powerful portrayal of mental illness
One Under (8 Aug 2011)
Energetic piece of devised theatre based on London Underground
2401 Objects (8 Aug 2011)
Remarkable neuroscience story
At The Sans Hotel (8 Aug 2011)
A sophisticated exploration of the form/content dichotomy
Belt Up’s The Boy James (8 Aug 2011)
Well-executed drama based on JM Barrie's childhood
The Magical Faraway Tree (8 Aug 2011)
Multi-character comedy not really based on Enid Blyton tale
Pop-Up! The Amazing Adventures of Moo-Dong (8 Aug 2011)
The art of entertaining
Slavery to Star Trek (8 Aug 2011)
Autobiographical show taking in Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Dance Marathon (8 Aug 2011)
Sweat-slicked endurance test
Somewhere Beneath It All, A Small Fire Burns Still (8 Aug 2011)
Monologue that’s less than straightforward
A Celebration of Harold Pinter (8 Aug 2011)
Pinter wonderland manages not to sink beneath the hype
The Infant (8 Aug 2011)
Absurdist comedy with a Gothic feel
John Peel’s Shed (8 Aug 2011)
Intimate musings on the joy of radio
Scary Gorgeous (8 Aug 2011)
Girls gone wild
What Remains (8 Aug 2011)
Plenty of creep, not enough deep
The One Man Show (5 Aug 2011)
Late-night high-tech deconstruction with Jaffa Cakes
2 star shows
The Pretender
(26 Aug 2011)
One man show about lying gets out of control
Soldier and Death (26 Aug 2011)
Soldier fable let down by tiny puppets
Teechers (23 Aug 2011)
Fast-paced youth production despite large cast
You Wouldn't Know Him, He Lives in Texas (23 Aug 2011)
An innovative concept that needs thinking through
7 Day Drunk (23 Aug 2011)
Shallow attempt at drunken creativity
Devotion (23 Aug 2011)
Incredible performances hindered by weak story
Medea (23 Aug 2011)
Modern-edged take let down by cast
When Abel Met Cain (23 Aug 2011)
Middle Eastern music distracted by incoherant stories
Und (17 Aug 2011)
Tough play with the meaning stressed out
Reservoir Dogs (17 Aug 2011)
Unimaginative adaptation of Tarantino’s heist movie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (16 Aug 2011)
Enthusiastic but amateurish adaptation of Rushdie’s novel
Lol (16 Aug 2011)
Touching humour in suburban comedy, but no new ground broken
The Tour Guide (16 Aug 2011)
A tour guide going off the rails on real Edinburgh tour bus
Young Pretender (16 Aug 2011)
Bonny Prince Charlie tale let down by performance
Are You Happy Now? (14 Aug 2011)
Pessimistic two-hander about dysfunctional relationships
Brotherly Love (14 Aug 2011)
Tensions high and voices loud feels uncomfortable
Free Time Radical (14 Aug 2011)
Wryly humorous evocation of mid-life crisis falls short of expectations
James Galea: I Hate Rabbits (12 Aug 2011)
High on production values, low on magic
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (12 Aug 2011)
Depressing tale of decay of the upper classes in Russia
Mark Twain Abroad (11 Aug 2011)
Dramatic recreation of a lecture by the famous author lacks panache
Sideshow (8 Aug 2011)
Freakshow-themed one-man show lacks pay-off
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Musical (8 Aug 2011)
Japanese one-man show dedicated but lacking in pace and musical gravitas
Dr Apple’s Last Lecture (8 Aug 2011)
Energetic acting, but ultimately without a point
Remembering Annabel (8 Aug 2011)
Edgar Allan Poe adaptation feels messy despite flashes of humour
The Seagull Effect (8 Aug 2011)
Enthusiasm and visual techniques let down by overdone score and direction
Shhh: The Musical (8 Aug 2011)
Enthusiasm let down by unoriginal script and forgettable songs
The Curse of Macbeth (8 Aug 2011)
Great staging, shame about the acting
Free Run (8 Aug 2011)
Heavily padded parkour spectacle
It’s Uniformation Day (8 Aug 2011)
2001: A Space Odyssey got weird
Man of Valour (8 Aug 2011)
Mime and punishment
Robert Burns: Not in my Name (8 Aug 2011)
Tracing the final years of the Bard
Wondrous Flitting (8 Aug 2011)
Absurdist parable that doesn’t quite work
1 star shows
Phantasmagoria
(23 Aug 2011)
Depressing, lazy and naïvely acted
Llwyth (Tribe) (22 Aug 2011)
Overlong play with little to say about contemporary life
Alice in Wonderland and Other Adventures With Lewis Carroll (8 Aug 2011)
Badly sung songs, ill-fitting costumes and stilted delivery
The Dipper (8 Aug 2011)
Utter nonsense misses the mark completely
Terezin: Children of the Holocaust (8 Aug 2011)
Fictionalised account of a concert fails to convey emotional weight
Radio Deluxembourg (8 Aug 2011)
Parodic retro-kitsch with utterly unfunny script and weary cast
