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Edinburgh · EdinburghWell, in a festival with 3,000 performances, they all can’t be winners, can they? Although we did find and publish not one list, but two lists of plays we thought were great, today we have some duds. Three to be precise. Buy hey, maybe you’ll like them: one man gathers what another another man spills. John Kent Walters is Frankie Monroe: Dead!!! John Kent Walters’ Frankie Monroe: Dead!!! is part clown show, part stand-up, with a dash of slapstic…Read Article
Edinburgh Fringe Shows to Skip - The Jitney
Edinburgh · EdinburghWe at The Jitney continue to review Edinburg Fringe plays at a breakneck speed. Today we highlight two diamonds in the rush we would like to promote. Fail Safe Fail Safe was one of the longest plays we saw at this year’s Fringe at 90 minutes. And it was one of the most engaging. This world-premiere black comedy follows Ivy and Jones, two dead-end twenty-somethings in Connecticut who form a suicide pact. Ivy is a long-suffering manic depressive, …Read Article
Edinburgh Fringe Review Highlights: Fail Safe & Bury the Hatchet - The Jitney
InternetIt started for me with a hiss and a shriek, our dial-up modem screaming like it was dying. Watching the screen glow dim and blueish in the room, a hint of fear rose in my chest at the uncertainty of it all, this unknown plane. Fingers hovering over the keyboard like I was unlocking a portal, like we’d just found the proverbial closet door to Narnia. At the time, it seemed like a new form of life, something both alien and filled with possibility.…Read Article
