ED2015 4/5 REVIEWS

4/5 at Edinburgh Festival 2015 (Recommended)

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17 Border Crossings (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental in association with Aurora Nova) 2 Become 1 (Swipe Right Theatre) 25 Stories (Alex Watts) 4x4 Ephemeral Architectures (Gandini Juggling) 64 Squares (Rhum And Clay) 887 (Ex Machina / Robert Lepage) A Face That Fits (Moonfly Theatre Company) A Gambler's Guide To Dying (Gary McNair with Show And Tell) A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing (Corn Exchange) Abnormally Funny People (Abnormally Funny People) Ada (Edinburgh University Theatre Company) Adam Hills - Clown Heart (Off The Kerb Productions by arrangement with Lisa Richards Agency) Adventures In Menstruating (Chella Quint / PBH's Free Fringe) Aidan Goatley's 10 Films With My Dad (Aidan Goatley/PBH) Alchemy Of The Piano (Will Pickvance) Alex Edelman - Everything Handed To You (Phil McIntyre Entertainments) Alfie Brown - Ism (The Mason Sisters) Ally Houston - Shandy (Ally Houston) Am I Dead Yet? (Unlimited Theatre) An Oak Tree (Tim Crouch) Anatomy Of The Piano (For Beginniners) (Will Pickvance) Angel In The Abattoir (Comedians Theatre Company) Angus Brown - Get Ready. Get Set. Ahhh F*%k It. (Attic Erratic) As Is (Mice On A Beam) Attempts On Her Life (Brodrick Productions) Aunty Donna (Electric Talent) Bach Hours (Organists Whitehead, Wally And Harris With Tenor John Mark Ainsley) Backstage In Biscuit Land (Touretteshero) Bat-Fan (Bound & Gagged Comedy) Bebe+Luna Present...Cabaret Farce! (Bebe+Luna Present) Bec Hill - Caught On Tape (Ditto Productions) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (Edinburgh International Festival) Beth Vyse - As Funny As Cancer (Beth Vyse/Heroes) Billy Through The Window - Bellow Theatre Blind Cinema (Britt Hatzius) Bortle 8 (Chris Davis) Brett Goldstein - Burning Man (Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management) Broken Windows (Piú Theatre) Brute (Izzy Tennyson) Camera Obscura (The Secret Dance Club) CELL (Smoking Apples And Dogfish) Cherry Orchard - Beyond The Truth (Theatre Margot, Korea) Chris Turner - XXV (Fluid Thinking and Brillstein Entertainment Partners) Christian O'Connell - You've Ruined My Morning... And Other Fan Mail (So Comedy) Cinema (ZENDEH) Clare Ferguson-Walker's California Scheming Clare Plested - The Essential Collection (Clare Plested / PBH's Free Fringe) Confessional by Tennessee Williams (Tramp) Consumption (Two42 Company) Crash (Traverse Theatre Company) Croft & Pearce – There's Always Something (Vivienne Smith Management) Current Location (Fellswoop Theatre) Damien Slash - Übermen (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex) Danielle Ward - Dani Frankenstein (Danielle Ward / PBH's Free Fringe) Diane Spencer - Power Tool (Difunny.co.uk) Dicing With Dr Death (Dr Philip Nitschke) Dog Play Dead (The Well Behaved Women) Donald Does Dusty (Diane Torr) Drum Tribe (Drum Tribe) Dylan Thomas – The Man, The Myth (Theatre Tours International / Guy Masterson Productions) Eleanor Morton - Allotted Mucking Around Time (Eleanor Morton) Elvis McGonagall - Countrybile (Elvis McGonagall) Ernie (Lisa Richards) Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company) Expect The Unexporcupine (Michael Stranney and Olaf Falafel) Fault Lines (Phantom Owl Productions) Felicity Ward - What If There Is No Toilet? (Brett Vincent for Get Comedy – by arrangement by Independent Talent) Fern Brady - People Are Idiots (Fern Brady) Festival Of The Spoken Nerd - Just For Graphs (Phil McIntyre Entertainments) Festivus (Signature Pictures) FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks / Edinburgh International Festival) Fiction (Fuel, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath) Flossy And Boo's Curiosity Shop (Flossy And Boo) For The Ground That Grew Me (Wil Greenway) Foxfinder (Master Of None) Funmbi Omotayo - Legal Immigrant (CKP) Garden (Lucy Grace) Gein's Family Gift Shop Volume 2 (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex) Giraffe - Raisin' The Hoof (Giraffe) Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone (Greyscale) Greyhound - Journey Through The Dark Heart of America (Matt Panesh/ PBH Free Fringe) Gruesome Playground Injuries (Phantom Owl Productions) Hannah And Hanna (Culture Clash / Greenwich Theatre) Heartbeats & Algorithms (Jenny Lee) Here Is The News From Over There (Over There Is The News From Here) – A Borderless Twitter Ballad Fresh From The Middle East I Am Not Myself These Days (Fuel and Tom Stuart) I Heart Catherine Pistachio (Encounter) I'm Not Here Right Now (Dancing Brick and Soho Theatre) Ivy Paige - Filthy Rich (Bound & Gagged) Jack And Molly And The Beanstalk (C Theatre) Jennie Benton Wordsmith (Susan Harrison) Jenny Bede - Don't Look At Me (Jenny Bede) Jethro Compton presents Sirenia (Jethro Compton Productions) Jethro Compton's Frontier Trilogy - Blood Red Moon (Jethro Compton Productions) Jethro Compton's Frontier Trilogy - The Rattlesnake's Kiss (Jethro Compton Productions) Jo-Jo Bellini - This And That - A Late Night Tasty Delight (Jo-Jo Bellini) Joe Stilgoe - Songs On Film – The Sequel (Emma Brunjes Productions) John Hastings - Marked From The Start (CKP) John Robertson, Let's Redecorate John Robins - Speakeasy (Phil McIntyre) Joseph Morpurgo - Soothing Sounds For Baby (The Invisible Dot Ltd) Juliet Meyers - Through The Pigeonhole (Juliet Meyers) Justin Moorhouse - Destiny Calling (CKP) Kelly Kingham - Inside Out (Kelly Kingham) Larry Dean - Out Now (Bound And Gagged) Late Night Phantasmagoria with Jack Lukeman Lazy Susan - Double Act (Ditto Productions) Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Walrus Theatre) Liam Williams - Bonfire Night (The Invisible Dot) Lloyd Griffith, Grimsby's Great Big Turn On (Live Nation in association with Lisa White at Glorious Management) Luke Toulson - Grandpa, Hitler And Me Lungs (Paines Plough) Mark Thomas - Trespass - Work In Progress (Mark Thomas) Markus Birdman – Grimm Realities (Markus Birdman / PBH's Free Fringe) Mat Ewins - Day Job (Mason Sisters @ PBJ) Michael J Dolan - Miserable Guts Michael Legge - Tell It Like It Is, Steve (Michael Legge) Minor Delays (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex) Mistaken - A Quartet Of Plays For One Actor (Hidden Bell Productions) Molly (Squint And The Pleasance) My Beautiful Black Dog (Brigitte Aphrodite and Boom Shakala Productions) My Name is... (Tamasha) Nina Simone Black Diva Power (Arts Events Australia) Off The Top (Baba Brinkman / PBH's Free Fringe) Omar Hamdi - In The Valley Of The Kings (Omar Hamdi) One For My Baby (Now You Know Theatre Company) Orpheus And Eurydice (About Turn) Othello - An All Female Production (Smooth Faced Gentlemen) Pajama Men - 2 Man 3 Musketeers (Assembly Festival in association with Soho Theatre) Paul Sinha - Postcards From The Z List Phantasmagoria (Hookhitch Theatre) Portraits In Motion (Volker Gerling in association with Aurora Nova) Pramkicker (Old Trunk) Project Haha (RemoteControl Theatre) Reconciling (The Barrington Collective) Reunion (Living Record Theatre Company) Revan And Fennell - Fan Club (Revan And Fennell) Richard III (Close Up Theatre) Ringside (Ellie Dubois) Sajeela Kershi - Shallow Halal (Invisible Women – Sajeela Kershi/Free Festival) Set (Phyllida Barlow) Shakespeare Untold - Romeo And Juliet (The Party Planner's Tale) (Shakespeare's Globe) Shit-Faced Shakespeare (Magnificent Bastard Productions) Simon Munnery - And Nothing But (Simon Munnery with Show and Tell) Some People Talk About Violence (Barrel Organ) Sophie Pelham - Country Files (Sophie Pelham) Soweto Afro Pop Opera Stand Up & Slam! - Free (Chatback Comedy / PBH's Free Fringe) Steve Hall - Zebra (Steve Hall) Stewart Lee - A Room With A Stew (Stewart Lee) Submarine (Popcorn Productions) Sunshine On Leith (Captivate Theatre) Swallow (Traverse Theatre Company) Tar Baby (Desiree Burch and Platt Productions) The 56 (FYSA Theatre) The Beanfield (Breach) The Biggest Marionette Circus In The World (Theatre Klinika Lanek) The Colours Of Kenny Roach (Peppermint Muse) The Communist Threat (Rusted Dust) The Empire Builders (Theatre Hayal Perdesi - Turkey) The Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz (New Old Friends) The Gideon & Hubcap Show (Groundswell Theatricals / Something For The Weekend) The Hogwallops (Lost In Translation Circus) The Hunting Of The Snark (Alice House Theatre) The Jabberwocky (UCLU Runaground) The King Of Monte Cristo (Watch This) The MMORPG Show (Electric Talent) The Night Watch (Antonia Goddard Productions in association with Jethro Compton Productions) The Pin - Ten Seconds With The Pin (The Pleasance) The Remnants - Threadbare The Rules – Sex, Lies And Serial Killers The Soaking Of Vera Shrimp (Rosie and Me) The Solid Life Of Sugar Water (Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth) The Sunset Five (DugOut Theatre) The Year Of The Hare (Ryhmäteatteri) This Is How We Die (Christopher Brett Bailey) Tiernan Douieb - The World Is Full Of Idiots, Let's Live In Space (Tiernan Douieb / PBH's Free Fringe) To Sleep To Dream (EarFilms) Tom Neenan - The Andromeda Paradox (Ditto Productions) Tomorrow's Parties (Forced Entertainment) Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me (Made In China) Tony Law - Frillemorphesis (Tony Law) Totes Inappropes! (Totes Inappropes Productions) Tubular Bells For Two (Shortwalk) Tutte Contro Verdi (ISIFUERA SL) Unlimited Exhibition Ushers - The Front Of House Musical (Matthew Cundy Productions and Kouban Productions) Walking The Tightrope, The Tension Between Art And Politics (Offstage Theatre / Underbelly Productions) Wasted (No Prophet Theatre Company) We Can Make You Happy (House of Blakewell / Vicky Graham Productions) Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight (Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice) What I Learned From Johnny Bevan (Luke Wright) Where Do Little Birds Go? (Duckdown Theatre / HeavyWeather Theatre) Wilde Without The Boy (Cahoots Theatre Company) Witches (Music Theatre Warwick) Yianni - Why Did The Chicken Cross The Line? (Yianni) zazU - A Fête Worse Than Death (zazU Comedy)