Edinburgh Festivals daily guide: 6 August
REVIEWS
Written and performed by the supremely talented Bryan Burroughs – playing three generations of a family – this is a celebration of how we use fiction, whether it’s Beowulf or Star Wars, to say the things that we struggle to express any other way.
In short, it’s about zombies, a subject which may be viewed as too childish by highbrow theatre-goers and too overplayed even by the standards of your average, non-Zombie Walk attending pop culture sponge.
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Hide AdThree isolated narratives meet in this poetic, tightly structured thriller that plays on climate-change denial and post-9/11 anxieties about terrorism.
INTERVIEWS
The mid-life crisis of an objectionable former muesli bar manufacturer drifting to his death at sea is the starting point for Sam Simmons’ playful new show.
Born at the same time as the global recession, Forest Fringe has successfully learnt to ‘make do’, writes Andy Field
A musical written to help rehabilitate prisoners in Italy is finding an audience far beyond the high wire fences, reports Susan Mansfield from Milan
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They sit among you as fellow Fringe show attendees, but don’t let your guard down for a minute. These people are more than ready to hijack this room and make the next 30 minutes all about them. Here we identify the five kinds of audience members who will rise from the darkness to interrupt your comedy experience. You have been warned, Edinburgh.
Forget the sinister, face-painted entertainers of your childhood. Dan Lees says there’s much more to clown-based comedy than you think
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