“Day 11, Shows 32-35: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Fringe Festival”An Evening with an ImmigrantInua EllamsTraverse TheatrePoet, playwright, and performer Inua Ellams, wearing a t-shirt that boldly says “Never Forget to Say Thank You,” sits at the microphone before the Traverse Theatre audience to relate a story of the many years he and his family take to become legal … [Read more...] about “Day 11, Shows 32-35: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
The Pleasance
“Day 9, Shows 24 & 25: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
“Day 9, Shows 24 & 25: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Fringe Festival”AdamFrancis PoetNational Theatre of ScotlandTraverse Theatre“Can the soul of a man be trapped in the body of a woman?” With that one-line question typed into the world of the Internet, a young person from Alexandria, Egypt born in the wrong body form and now seeking refuge in a non-welcoming England … [Read more...] about “Day 9, Shows 24 & 25: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
“Day 7, Shows 17-19: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
“Day 7, Shows 17-19: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Fringe Festival”From Ibiza to the Norfolk BroadsAdrian BerryPleasanceA father he has not seen nor heard from since he was two and a famed, gender-fluid rock star he has never met nor seen in live performance have shaped who Martin is as he now turns eighteen. A loner who has a severe eating disorder and sometimes does not … [Read more...] about “Day 7, Shows 17-19: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
“Day 3: Shows 6-9: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Fringe Festival”
“Day 3 Shows 5-8: TheatreEddys at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”Not about HeroesStephen MacDonaldFlying BridgePleasance What force drives a man who is an avid anti-war advocate in his poetry and personal stance to go back into a war he absolutely no longer believes is legitimate? Further, how could this possibly happen to two poets, two men who have developed a … [Read more...] about “Day 3: Shows 6-9: TheatreEddys Goes to the 2017 Fringe Festival”
“Day Five: Mini-Reviews from the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
2016 Edinburgh Fringe Show #15Please Excuse My Dear Aunt SallyKevin ArmentoOne Year Lease Theatre CompanyThe PleasanceFrom the unique advantage of a cell phone, a riveting, screen-by-screen, word-for-word accounting is laid bare of an initially innocent-enough, later totally illicit relationship between a high school math teacher and a fifteen-year-old student. Five … [Read more...] about “Day Five: Mini-Reviews from the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival”
Day Four: Mini Reviews from 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2016 Edinburgh Fringe Show #10Callisto: a queer epicHoward CoaseForward ArenaThe PleasanceFour stories of the recent and far past and the much farther future intertwine in Howard Coase’s new work, Callisto: a queer epic, to explore same-sex relationships – all with the common thread of “Callisto,” the fourth and largest moon of Jupiter. Time and space, fact and fiction, … [Read more...] about Day Four: Mini Reviews from 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
