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The Late Utopians
3 stars – between rave and storytelling Rave music, check. Laser lights, steam, check. A tormented romance? Also check. Ready to embark onto a solo storytelling show about New York rave scene.
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Zero Minus One
3 stars – zero plus one plus one. A stand-up comic cum actor has something happen to him… and not just something, no everyday-minutiae-sort-of-story, but a rare case of amnesia, for 18 full months, to be exact. The next thing we know is, naturally, a 60 minute comedy/theatre show loosely based around it.
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The Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis
3 stars – Almost Camp. Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis by the Brooklyn-based company Piper Theatre Productions is a musical theatre piece built around the curiously bizarre premise that Bette Davis, the undying Hollywood legend, may or may not have been a witch.
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Peregrinations
5 stars – poetic and visual storytelling White paper birds are flown on an empty stage, they change speed, they separate then converge. This simple but evocative image, the precision of the movements that perform it, the care for the smallest detail: everything suggests from the very start that this is going to be a…
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Exquisite Corpse
4 stars – Chaotic good character comedy. Jonathan Oldfield’s Exquisite Corpse is a jam-packed, late-night underground character comedy show (the time and venue do work in its favour) that technically runs for an hour but feels like 20 minutes.
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Mario Adrion: Live a Little
4 stars – ‘it makes you laugh but also think’ Mario Adrion has a fully sold-out Edinburgh run, and by the cheering at his entrance on stage it was pretty obvious that he has a fandom, not only an audience (pretty privilege? He’s doing it the right way). I also knew him from the socials,…
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To Be Frank
5 stars – funny and lovable human monster You will never see such a funny and lovable monster, I promise. And if I don’t keep my promise – well, you’ll have to let me know, because I want to check with my own eyes.
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The Last Mad Man
4 stars – an enthusiastic death pitch. Good news, girls [dating men], gays [dating men] and theys [dating men]! The very last Mad Man of our planet is out and about and he will be shutting the door behind him.
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Brian Jonestown Massacre: live in Brighton
4 stars – A tamer, trippier and slightly decadent massacre 35 years on. It’s no secret that Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM) shows can be a bit of a gamble. In fact, the lead singer, guitarist and founder of the San Francisco psychedelic rock band, Anton Newcombe, has made his unpredictable stage behaviour a substantial part…
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Vanya is Alive
4 stars – clever, minimalistic drama Alya stays silent about her son Vanya: Vanya has been sent to the peace. Until one day Alya receives a message from her son’s number, reading: ‘Vanya has not been captured. He is absolutely free’.
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Down in Colorado
4 stars – honest and powerful storytelling Gabriel Bird, class 1995, tells the story of the years he spent in Colorado in his original musical storytelling piece. From the first song, we already have a grasp of his dark humour, when with an accelerated, jolly rhythm he describes the setting of his attempted suicide.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka
It is 1990 and Maali Almeida (‘Photographer. Gambler. Slut.’) is new to his ghost non-body, hovering over his town, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Around his neck hangs the Nikon, now broken, that he’s been using to shoot pictures of the past years of civil war, of the bodies it left behind, often civilians, and of journalists, terrorists…
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