There are great theatre shows on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

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The Bulging Seahorse and Other Grey Matters

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

Root Experience explores the powerful dilemma of knowledge of impending death versus blissful ignorance. Using audience participation to shape certain scenes, the result is both amusing and thought-provoking. However, the plot lacks plausibility and…

The Censor

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

Hands flicking towards each other's groins, two actors circle one another in the basement office of the film censorship board. Prudishness and sexuality are explored in Anthony Neilson's electrifying text. Unfortunately, the dynamics of the central…

The Factory

The Factory

Vivid Holocaust journey

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

'They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.' Attributed to Martin Niemöller, this sentiment comes to mind during Badac Theatre's disturbing and compelling reconstruction of the death journey of so many of Hitler's final…

The House of the Grape

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

'People just look at the star rating,' says Patrick when his French café gets a one-star review. 'They don't read in between the lines.' Like the restaurant, which he tries in vain to save from ruin, this play is unsalvageable. Lifeless and irritating…

The Lie-in, the Itch and the Whore's Robe

The Lie-in, the Itch and the Whore's Robe

Ikea-style physical theatre

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

This comment on the consumerist ideology that holds us all together like a gargantuan supermarket carrier bag, imparts the notion of an overly ordered life with a fairly diverting blend of dance and rhyme. As a shrieking, nagging housewife coerces her…

The Magic Tree

The Magic Tree

No magic here

(1 star)21 Aug 2008

From the programme notes, Ursula Rani Sarma's play sounds a dark, yet passionate love story - which just goes to show how misleading a synopsis can be. The Magic Tree explores themes of murder and gang rape and how these experiences destroy lives…

The Self-Murder

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

This physical theatre show from Russian company Stop! See! Sense! Russia! is a well-intentioned attempt to address the problem of suicide among the nation's youth. The show, which employs a daily revolving cast and multimedia, dramatises an encounter…

The Shadow

(1 star)21 Aug 2008

Enthusiastic acting is let down here by an over-written, confused and dizzyingly fast-paced script about a poet who loses his shadow. A barrage of contradictory metaphors dealing in the currency of light, dark, joy, greed, friend, foe and princesses…

The Terrible Infants

Edible dark fairytales

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

There are no happy endings in this collection of delectably dark fairytales: cannibal boy Tumb eats his mum, the unloved Thingummyboy evaporates and fibber Tilly grows a tail that lengthens with every tall tale she delivers. Writer Oliver Lansley’s…

The Tiger Lillies' 7 Deadly Sins

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

You’re all going to Hell. That’s the message the Tiger Lillies are gleefully preaching with the help of a punk Mister Punch and his civil partner Jude. Gogol Bordello and Flogging Molly influence the Lillies’ distinctive sound, which flavours…

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