It is typical for modern productions of Shakespeare to transport his plays from their original geographical and temporal contexts into a new place and time. Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s (EUSC) production of Much Ado About Nothing – the company’s first show at the Fringe in its ten-year history – keeps the original Sicilian setting of […]
If Quentin Tarantino is the king of violence, then Irvine Welsh is the undisputed king of filth. Filth, incidentally, is the title of Welsh’s 1998 novel. It was adapted into a one-man play by Harry Gibson, first performed in 1999 by veteran Leith actor Tam Dean Burn, and in 2013 was adapted into a film […]
In Ulster American, a loudmouth American actor, an obsequious English director and a strong-minded Northern Irish playwright meet up in a flat for the first time. It sounds like the set-up for a new sitcom, complete with audience laughter, but this situation comedy gradually derails into a violent Tarantinoesque stand-off. David Ireland’s dark comedy, showing […]
There are lots of shows on at the Fringe dealing with the legacy of Nazi Germany over seventy years later, from Dr Korczak’s Example to Mengele. What makes Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany unique is that it is not only based on the fascinating true story of Eleanor Ramrath Garner, but it […]