Theatre Review: Pits, Underbelly - Bristo Square, Edinburgh
Pits, Underbelly - Bristo Square, Edinburgh **
Stoic dad Dave, damaged, racist brother Calum and his dim girlfriend Ellie, plus mum, Audrey, who thinks that smiling at her Syrian neighbours is a breakthrough for community race relations.
Mackenzie spots the comic potential in this familiar universe of fake tan, fake lashes and fried food, where the misplacing of a snakeskin clutch bag is a cultural crisis and the discovery of a tenner you didn’t know you had can instigate love-making.
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Hide AdBut what starts out as rote, if riotous, sitcom with the occasional pithy witticism gradually takes on a darker domestic hue and it soon transpires that if Mackenzie didn’t laugh in public she would be crying in private.
Until 26 August