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Girl and Dean

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

Tragically, the hand-knitted props from last year haven't returned, and an annoying puppet and some over-long sketches have snuck in instead. The quirky duo still deliver occasional gems like their posh thesp stereotypes and weird cake-themed…

Goodbye Goodbye

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

Strappingly acted, cleverly written and innovatively staged, this intriguing narrative sketch show is let down by its indecision. At times it's content with its many funny lines and characters, at others it seems to lust vainly after an earnest…

Greenstick Boy

Greenstick Boy

Hearts and bones broken

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

In her one-woman show about falling in love with a heroin addict, Maggie Cronin of Doctors fame entertains her audience with winning, bittersweet humour. Entitled Greenstick Boy after a 'greenstick fracture', a slight and sometimes hidden injury to a…

Hils Barker

Hils Barker

Fanciful but flaccid exhibitionism

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

Sinister social network sites are under precision attack in Hils Barker’s character exposé Exhibitionist! which links four lonely souls to ‘Profile Me’, an invention more Orwellian than Facebook. Barker attempts to draw parallels between billionaire…

Histrionics

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

With this rough-hewn but charming play, award-winning writer James Butler keeps the comedy flowing with men in drag, tuneless singing and tussles on the saloon floor. Blue smoke, a live lute and the damp air of the Caves transports us back to the 18th…

Hitler Alone

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

The Führer rants and raves his most intimate concerns during his last hours in the bunker. While the script is often overladen with historical information, the central performance is at times incredibly compelling. Inlingua, 220 5119, until 24 Aug…

Hitlist: Dance

Hitlist: Dance

21 Aug 2008

Deca Dance 2008 A stunning retrospective of works by choreographer, Ohad Naharin and his incredible Batsheva Dance Company. Take your non-dance loving friends and convert them. Edinburgh Playhouse, 473 2000, 28–30 Aug, 8pm, £8–£28. Matthew…

Hitlist: Kids

Hitlist: Kids

21 Aug 2008

The Echo Chamber and We All Fall Down Two top notch shows from En Masse Theatre. Journey down into the dark, damp vaults beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town in The Echo Chamber or learn about the colourful characters in two plague-ridden villages in We All…

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Little to argue with over judges award selection

21 Aug 2008

The rant was already prepared. How could they possibly let A on there when B has put together a far more impressive hour? C was absolutely hilarious: why have they let D & E in when they were funnier three years ago? And yet the good people sitting…

In a Thousand Pieces

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

No one should rush to the Paper Birds company in search of an incisive analysis of human trafficking. Despite drawing on verbatim material, In a Thousand Pieces tells you nothing you didn't already know about Eastern European women being sold into…

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