Theatre review: Life Is Too Good To Be True, Underbelly Cowgate (Venue 61), Edinburgh
Life Is Too Good To Be True
Underbelly Cowgate (Venue 61)
Rating: **
It abstractly explores different types of lies we wittingly tell or accept – be it a career-hungry journalist’s fabricated stories or the positive mantra of a cancer sufferer – via an incongruous route from shamed American hack Stephen Glass to Lady Gaga.
The Glass-in-group-therapy monologue is absorbing enough. Then he undresses and starts waving a ribbon baton and things begin to get trippy, camp and very vague. Finally being confronted by a man in tights, high-heels and a pink wig singing Bad Romance is unexpected, just not in an especially good way.
• Until 13 August