The Devil You Know: A Horror Play (rating 3/5) Found footage horror has oversaturated the genre in the past decade or so (starting way back in 1980 with Cannibal Holocaust and then popularised by the Blair Witch Project in 1999, leading to more recent and tired productions like the Paranormal Activity franchise) but it it […]
Edinburgh Fringe
A glimpse of a fallen idol in a lost weekend
Hello Georgie, Goodbye Best (rating 3/5) January 9, 1971, three years after being named European Footballer of the Year, George Best failed to turn up for a game. He should have been playing for Manchester United away to Chelsea, but he missed the train, possibly for the same reason he had missed training most of […]
Disturbing vision of a world filled with hate
The Abode (rating 5/5) In these times of tension over gender and race, the quest for equality and social justice has become a recurring theme in the arts as much as it has in politics. The Fringe has regularly featured performances dealing with prejudice and hate, but perhaps they take on a greater resonance at […]
Bathurst’s lunchtime lament is a poetic delight
The Song of Lunch (rating 5/5) Robert Bathurst was a barely known performer until landing the career-changing part of management consultant David Marsden in Mike Bullen’s ITV series Cold Feet. Here he plays a similar role, as a rejected and shambolic former husband anticipating and experiencing a reunion lunch with his ex-wife at a favourite […]
Moloney takes the honours in double delivery
Fred MacAulay and John Moloney (rating 4/5) With a Scottish and an English comedian pairing up in front of a largely domestic audience one might have expected a few cross-border wisecracks. Neither chose that option, nor did they perform as a double act, each preferring their own routines and denying us the prospect of some […]