Review: The Rabbit and the Rose, Sweet Grassmarket (Venue 18)
A NAMELESS rabbit and a posh schoolboy with an improbable love of railroad blues journey in search of a fabled black rose and it all ends – and starts, and continues – messily.
Star rating: *
Flyaway Theatre’s fussy fairytale goes to town with the theatrical devices – puppetry, live music, homemade props, meta narrative, surrealism and jokey asides for the parents – but the show is hamstrung by halting acting, poorly executed sound and lighting effects and fundamentally bad storytelling.
It does, however, win the award for most performers shoehorned into a tiny space.
Until 19 August. Today 3:55pm.